F/A-18E Super Hornet reviewed at MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum





F/A-18E Super Hornet

Righto, out of the weeds, plug in full burner and uuuuup she goes! Whooopeee! I'm passing 36,000 feet and I suddenly remember two things I didn't put much fuel in I'm totally lost! This is accompanied by a clammy, queasy feeling in my gut. Level off and throttle back. Hmmm. 5 minutes of head down work in the cockpit convinces me that I know very little about the map display. However, based on a semi-educated guess I decide to steer for what I hope is a TACAN symbol on the map. I hadn't pushed too many buttons and so hoped that it was tuned to the beacon at the airport I took off from. About this time, just as I'm getting very nervous and looking for the ejection handle, the voice warning system goes off "BINGO, BINGO". Ok Ok, I get the message, and a press of the Master Caution Lamp shuts the computer up. Yikes, that's 3,500 lbs of fuel left. There is an adjustable bingo setting on the fuel flow indicator panel.		I let down to about 3,000 feet and peer out of the virtual cockpit... there it is! Landing was faaaairly uneventful, although according to the merciless debrief I had touched down way too hard. As you can see by the debrief map, I had ponced around the planned route a bit then headed North West and followed a road up the valley before climbing to the South East. Now that's a lesson in itself. If I had bothered to notice the general compass headings of my escapades, it would have been very simple to head back east and find the airbase visually. Back



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