My recommendation for tanker crews: Check in goes something like this - Viper flight-"Gasser 22, Viper 11, 240, 29.92" Gasser-"Gasser 22, 250, 29.92, confirm noses cold, switches safe, cleared to rejoin your discression, pass your tails when able..." 99.9999% of the time Viper flight passes their tails, gets their gas, and everybody is happy with a minimum of radio garbaging. If he wants to clear off low and right and there's a cyclops in the vicinity, tell him where the traffic is. He'll do what he needs to do. Avoid clouds, turbulence, and icing. Drag guys toward their airspace or at least drop them off in the appropriate part of the track. Know where the sun is. Be polite and patient, but make it happen. Someone here said earlier that if you aren't dropping the bombs, you are the support. Shack. Even the Raptor and Eagle guys know this. Tanker guys do too, but some will always need reminding. End result: your gas = hot metal in pink bodies. Everything else is secondary. There will be times the reciever goes to the wrong tanker, gets lost, wants more gas than you have, or is generally an asshole and makes your life diffucult. Tactical controllers are also particularly good at this. Deal with it. Someone who sleeps in the mud is counting on it.
Prozac out.
