Originally Posted by
1Seat 1Engine
.....Really, it was less comfortable than a dentist chair. I was always untying the knots in my toes afterwards.
On deployment, when you'd refuel several times a flight, it actually gets to be quite uneventful. Especially if the boomers are proficient; a fact frequently overlooked. Proficient confident boomers make refueling go WAY faster. Timid boomers can ruin your night.
Hell, there's usually more funny stories about blown tanker rejoins than actual refueling. Remember! Never go two circle with a tanker above 20,000, he might out-rate you!
All the above is true, and the bold is FACT in a three-bag F-4! Beak to Beak, and just about to start your turn, and 69% of the time, HE would turn into you. We called it "Tanker BFM."
When we found out they turned at a certain A/A TACAN DME, we just stopped using the TACAN, and often just told him we'd do the turn ourselves.