Aircraft must be dispersed around the perimeter track. Engines should be warmed and checks completed by 1800 GMT. Status is "Standby": pilots in cockpits, prepared to be airborne in two minutes, in case of a scramble.
Meet at: 1745 GMT for an 1800 departure.
Meet on: Digital Theme Park on JoinFS.
Comms through A2A Discord channel.
Start at: Goodwood, EGHR.
Local time: 0700.
Weather: severe clear.
In the unlikely event of a scramble, we have this from Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II, by William R Dunn:
"In those days our airfields were all grass covered - no runways - so the scrambled fighters came blasting straight ahead out of their dispersal bays. Things could get pretty hairy at that moment, especially when it was a flight or squadron scramble with everyone taking off in different directions. A scramble takeoff sometimes looked like organized confusion, and I guess that's really what it was, but we did get into the air quickly when every second counted. The excitement of the moment reached its absolute peak when you launched out of your bay and went blasting at full throttle across the grass and there, roaring almost head-on toward you, came some other sod who was being scrambled from the other side of the airfield. Some near misses and some prangs did occur, but not as often as you would think."
