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I am preparing a set of practice missions, which I will update every week or so. Check back to see if there is anything new.

Most of the missions here are designed to be flown using the Mosquito Bomber or Fighter/Bomber. This is because it's fast, and the purpose here is to test navigation. The Mossie lets you fly a mission quickly, gaining the navigation experience without wasting time in the slower buffs.

If you do want to try these in a slower aircraft, don't forget to adjust the timings (duh!). For a B17 or B25 I suggest you use 200 mph, thus the times would be increased by 50% (ie multiply the times by 1.5).

Unless otherwise stated, the missions are designed to be flown without any wind in the arena.

This is a simple mission to bomb the port of Rotterdam. Start at F1 in the ETO, and set yourself for an air launch at 10k. Choose any of the buffs, although I recommend the B17, B25, Betty and Ju88 because of their multiple crew positions which gives the navigator a chance to look arround. For an extra challenge, take a Mossie and try to avoid using the external views.

When flying at very low level, or if planning turns over featureless terrain (eg water, or the farmland of central Europe) you need to know when to turn to your next heading. This is where planning gets more complex and flying the mission becomes more difficult. This simple plan is an introduction to the process. Grab any aircraft of your choice (I like the Mosquito Fighter-Bomber for this type of mission) and start on the runway at F9. Fly at 045 from F9 at 300 kts for 3 minutes 24 seconds, then turn to 090 and fly at 300 kts for 6 minutes and 24 seconds. You should find yourself very close to Rotterdam.

This mission is a strike on the oil storage facility South of Paris. Choose a Mosquito Fighter-Bomber with 35% fuel. The run to Paris is an easy one - the challenge starts when you approach the target. Can you hit the target, stay orientated and not loose track of time so that you can follow the path home?

The intention here is to navigate a narrow corridor, at low level, between the acks through the Rhur industries to hit a factory. This mission will be difficult, even if your navigation is perfect.

The target here is in the center of Brussels. Identifying it will be tricky, as will avoiding harming the local population.....

A short, simple mission to strike the factory SW of Lille.

This mission should be relatively simple, as long as you don't get too high. If you do, acks will probably nail you.

This section contains missions contributed by Bombom (-bmbm-). Please note - these missions are unedited, and have not been checked by me.

Field in operation: F2 Duxford
Aircraft and loadout: B25J, fuel 100, 1x2000lb bomb
Set .time 05,30 for extra kicks. Repeat when necessary.

This is a rather sloppy plan beacuse of the elevation on the attack leg. The "unneccessary" hill-hopping is quite fun though. I chose to attack the bridge perpendicularly to get a "dam" feeling to it ;-)
 

Field in operation: F1 Debden
Aircraft and loadout: DH98 MkVI, fuel 50, 4x500lb bomb