036 'A hunting we shall go'

Escort Mission, Campaign day 1.
11.04 Take off time
12.44 Touchdown

First BMS Campaign mission fully complete. Fairly uneventful. It was an escort 2 ship, so i decided to go wingman and let the AI show me the way. Had a Long trip east (170miles) from Kunsan, to intercept 4 b2b lancers, and another 50 into enemy territory north east to target, Choongwon They came out of Kadena Airbase off the east shore of south Korea. 

Take off was full ramp, and aligned not a second too soon, as we were queued in a long line to taxi. Lots of both out going and in coming traffic at Kunson, mostly A10, and F16 B50's stationed there. Following the caret, intercept was neat to see the lancers below. At the target site, did have a bit of action a group of mig 23's got airborne, but between me and lead, we dispatched them quickly. I splashed  3 with single missiles, using fox 3 and fox 1 close. Luckily it was quick, cause we had a long journey home and fuel needed to be managed.

Once they were disposed of, we headed back to the original intercept point, and said goodbye to the lancers. (what i didn’t realise was that they did no damage to their targets, which made the thing a waste of time).  I was empty on the outboard fuel tanks, so decided to ditch them, and joined my no1. At the airbase i got some atc instructions, but was behind lead, and think ATC kind of forgot about me. Perhaps I needed to follow Lead in. Will a little time left to call emergency, i grappled with the ILS, and input the frequency for Kunsan, and we were good to land. Still had 3k lbs on board.

I thoroughly enjoyed the sense of immersion with lots going on around, and was nearly taken by surprise when we encountered bogies. AI lead behaved, Strike group were disappointing. Server was solid, with no lag i could see, and though I had to kill BMS, due to ALT TAB bug at the end, i managed to get a briefing snap, and server kept up, and still runs.