Joint-OPS virtual combat school

[VA_NAVY]

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Any of the old timers still around who remember and attended classes? 

[SYN_Vander]

Ah yes! Very well organized and a lot of fun. The Zero was a great training aircraft ?. I'm still flying with a buddy that I met in class after all those years...

Edited October 24, 2020 by SYN_Vander

[DD_Crash]

FunFlack Kimo and Painless fly with the DangerDogz. Quite a few Dogz have done the classes.

[TRRA15]

Yes I attended. As was previously said, it was very well organized, fun and quite challenging as well. I gained a huge wealth of knowledge from them that would have taken much much longer for me to acquire...and perfect.

 

Good to see others in it are still flying.

[ACG_Bobo]

I did it, it was a treat!  You had great instructors for 3 hour classes.  Lots of note taking then flying.  I recall three levels of ground school/basic before you advanced to fighter or bomber school.  Then there was about three basic and three advanced levels of your chosen field.  And you could do specific aircraft training offline and get credit.  Yep, it was awesome.
I even still have a pic of the training field and all the course docs.

[TRRA15]

That brings back memories K_Bobo.

 

I recall 'The Triad' being a challenging hurdle to clear in order to graduate BFS. A route of flying between 3 airfields: taking off from Caen I believe, having to do a touch-and-go at another, then a successful landing at a third. All this in poor weather and using dead-reckoning navigation and VFR. I remember feeling almost drained ( but elated ) in accomplishing it. I remember the ground school and having to taxi about in windy conditions. Navigation training and the use of the beacons and repeater compass. All that stuff is as important, if not more, than just putting a plane in your sight and blasting away. The instructors were superb. I still have my printed out notes and maps and such, and still review them from time to time.

 

What I really liked were when they had those sessions where they would profile a certain aircraft, hosted by one of the members, where we'd learn the ins and outs, the best way to fly and fight effectively in it, followed by some co-op missions. I learned a lot, but it was fun fun fun. What a blast.

Edited October 25, 2020 by TRRA15

[ACG_Bobo]

I've been trying to introduce the 'Triad' to my squads training night.  It's a great skill to have.  All the stuff I learned at JO helped me in all my flight-sims and brought a much deeper enjoyment whenever I fly any of them.

[KG100_Brannon]

I remember as I attended a training class back then.  Learned a lot and had fun too.  All apart of this virtual journey.

[kestrel79]

I totally took some classes with these guys in IL2 46. Brings back memories. I remember it being pretty hardcore, and everyone was very polite calling you Sir. Pretty intimidating stuff for me in my early 20's  but I learned a lot!

[FTC_Blaky]

On 10/26/2020 at 1:08 AM, III./SG77-K_Bobo said:

I've been trying to introduce the 'Triad' to my squads training night.  It's a great skill to have.  All the stuff I learned at JO helped me in all my flight-sims and brought a much deeper enjoyment whenever I fly any of them.

Yes, that was the time ?, do you remember when Otto made us fly navigation course in Leningrad map with all those lakes... ? And the JO was fun so much. V515FE out ?, Sir.

 

Edited August 8, 2021 by =LD=RB77
Typo error

[ACG_Bobo]

Rolf!!  JO was great.  I wonder where are the instructors.  They put a lot of time into getting that program together and it was fantastic.

I still have all the notes I took during the lectures.

I still chat with Otto from time to time, he's flying with his Danish buddies!

[DD_Crash]

Painless and FunFlak still fly with the DangerDogz

[Sharkzz]

~S~   Navy mate. G'day there.

Still running I hope ?]

Where I gotz me wings bro ... learnt heaps and valuable , very valuable wing man kills ! ... 

I would do another refresher Just for the heck of it, Being in Oz, my wake up call was not sleeping from fridays to monday mid mornings lol. LOVED every minute of it !

& met sqauddies frojm world over , Awesome man !... 

and a merry xmas to ALL ..

Hoo Roo  

Sharkzz.

 

oh & forgot ..... woooooooooo those who let the instructors get hammered !!!! lolol .... 

[352nd_Wheels]

On 10/24/2020 at 7:44 AM, VA_NAVY said:

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Any of the old timers still around who remember and attended classes? 

 

Everyone I ever talked to about the program always enjoyed the heck out of it. One of the funniest stories I heard about the training classes was when you were tasked with created a mission for the class to fly. His was a Pearl Harbor session and my friend claims he put a submerged sub in the mission in the Harbor with a delay and when it started firing torpedoes all heck broke loose while everyone tried to figure out what was happening.

 

I always thought I would get around to it and then the site had to up and go offline almost a decade ago...

Joint_ops @ the Internet Archive (October 09, 2014)

 

Here is the video from the original post @VA_NAVY.

Joint Ops Virtual Combat School
https://youtu.be/AKqbPQbSOFQ?si=GQB8KhnxpUey91nd

One of the saddest things to me is that all the training material was lost when the site went down.

 

Wheels