Solos Crossover Break & Hack Timing
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:44 am
Hey guys, I have a question that I guess is better suited for Panther or Teej to answer, but of course anyone that knows PLEASE chime in.
So I'm learning the solo routine and just a couple of quick questions.
1. During the Crossover Break, whom is on the left and whom on the right? And after passing showcenter, I know 5 calls "Standby 6, 6 out ready now"...and will adjust power depending on which side they are on. Also, I have seen them when upon rolling out after the level 180 turn and smoke off, they pitch up maybe 10degs or so and then push for level again before going parallel for the Oppo Split-s. Is this correct?
2. "Hack" calls for solo oppo mauenvers. I understand that the solo's hack location is 4.0nm on a 30deg offset behind the crowd, show left and right. So let's say its the Oppo KE pass:
I will call out "Solos, check grd". And then "Solos, point at your hack". 6 calls "Got it 5!"
At this point both a/c turn to head to their hack points aiming to be at a grdspd of 450, hdg towards the run-in line from behind the crowd, 90deg offset. What I'd like to know is how do the solos time hiting the hack point...especially if they are setting up from a manuever that may have not had them flying equal parallel downwind into the basket area or if say Boss bobbles and is late coming in, requiring the solos to have to stage extra time out in the basket? With the Blues, 5 asks if 6 can take a mark...meaning 6 is in a location where he can hit the 3mn marker within 15 secs. So they take their mark and that sets both a/c hitting the starting mark on par. But Im failing to understand how TB solos hit the hack mark at the same time.
Just before the hack point, 5 calls "Stand by hack...let's hack now", with each solo repeating to themselves the "let's hack now" the cadence that #5 said it....then start timing on the stopwatch. So where exactly in these comms are the solos actually flying over the hack point?
So 10 secs later, 5 calls "90 to the line", which means both solos make their 90deg turn to head in runway hdg.
At the 12k mark, the manuever is announced and repeated by 6...along with "tight" or "stretched" if need. The rest of the calls I know and understand...announcing "solos check cal" if going into individual maneuvers after the clearing.
So I'm learning the solo routine and just a couple of quick questions.
1. During the Crossover Break, whom is on the left and whom on the right? And after passing showcenter, I know 5 calls "Standby 6, 6 out ready now"...and will adjust power depending on which side they are on. Also, I have seen them when upon rolling out after the level 180 turn and smoke off, they pitch up maybe 10degs or so and then push for level again before going parallel for the Oppo Split-s. Is this correct?
2. "Hack" calls for solo oppo mauenvers. I understand that the solo's hack location is 4.0nm on a 30deg offset behind the crowd, show left and right. So let's say its the Oppo KE pass:
I will call out "Solos, check grd". And then "Solos, point at your hack". 6 calls "Got it 5!"
At this point both a/c turn to head to their hack points aiming to be at a grdspd of 450, hdg towards the run-in line from behind the crowd, 90deg offset. What I'd like to know is how do the solos time hiting the hack point...especially if they are setting up from a manuever that may have not had them flying equal parallel downwind into the basket area or if say Boss bobbles and is late coming in, requiring the solos to have to stage extra time out in the basket? With the Blues, 5 asks if 6 can take a mark...meaning 6 is in a location where he can hit the 3mn marker within 15 secs. So they take their mark and that sets both a/c hitting the starting mark on par. But Im failing to understand how TB solos hit the hack mark at the same time.
Just before the hack point, 5 calls "Stand by hack...let's hack now", with each solo repeating to themselves the "let's hack now" the cadence that #5 said it....then start timing on the stopwatch. So where exactly in these comms are the solos actually flying over the hack point?
So 10 secs later, 5 calls "90 to the line", which means both solos make their 90deg turn to head in runway hdg.
At the 12k mark, the manuever is announced and repeated by 6...along with "tight" or "stretched" if need. The rest of the calls I know and understand...announcing "solos check cal" if going into individual maneuvers after the clearing.