Back to the topic at hand (what, I'm not allowed to threadjack my own thread anymore??)
How does one do the wagon wheel roll in, in an FTI-Speak sort of manner?
Master, you'll get the hang of it quickly. The gouge we taught students in the RAG was to fly a 30 degree cone around the target. The roll-in isn't just an angle of bank to let the nose fall; it's actually a rolling (
level altitude) pull toward the attack heading for the target (about 60 degrees AOB, which should be a 2G pull, or what ever it takes to honk the airplane over to get on your attack heading) and, as you are approaching 'nose on target, an overbank (about 120-150 degrees) and pull down to put the nose short of the target in a 40 degree dive. So in effect, you're flying from the 30 degree cone to the 40 degree cone.
You can't be wimpy or shy about the initial pull coming off the 30 degree cone, because you need separation from your flight, and you don't want a gentle arcing to the attack heading or you'll overshoot and be close to your wingman's run-in line, which is where the problems start.
Also, you don't want the nose to fall during the pull from the 30 degree cone to the 40 degree cone, because you'll wind up shallow and with a lot less tracking time.
