• About team
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About team:

 The Polish Aerobatic Team "Eagles" is the first, and as for now, the only Polish virtual aerobatic team on the skies of the IL-2 Sturmovik series simulator. Our team was founded in July 2004, by Noe. The idea surfaced and was put into realization on one of the main communications means of the team, the Polish Ił-2 & Lock On Forum. Currently, the team has 7 pilots who fly regularly and a few in reserve. Pilot positions are flexible for practical reasons, but not everybody can be a flight leader. Many of Our pilots have live pilot and glider licences and have advanced knowledge about about pilotage. The team is still recruiting new Polish pilots.
We fly mainly the P51-20-NA  before we used P40-E (model 1941), but also the Polish PZL P11.c. During on-line training sessions, we use the Voice Communications (Voice over IP) to ensure synchronization.
Our ground coordinator, whose job is to catch out our mistakes, which we may not see during formation flight, is the irreplaceable Dziadek Kos.Before each traning session we make flight plan with elements to accomplish. Introducing flight procedures  to all maneuvers made our flight path precise and recurrent. Some times we practice sets of various figures to stay in good shape.
A typical training session last two hours, and is organized two times a week, during this time we intensively train our fixed shows, on a pre-planned biases and other multi-pilot aerobatics exercises. At this moment, we are able to show a full 30 minute flight, with 4 to 7 planes. Show number 2 is now being worked on and we train some of it's elements now.
Our team is in cooperation (maybe friendship would be better word) with the Polish Air Force Aerobatic Team "ORLIK" from Radom. We can learn a lot from them, and they can probably learn something from Us too.
More screenshots, information about us, about our beginnings, and the whole history of The PAT "Eagles" is available here. (Sadly only in Polish).

In May 2007 top Polish Air magazine Skrzydlata Polska printed article about team, written by Marcin "Schemisser" Michalczyk. You can find there about history, training, procedures and future of team.
Get it here (in Polish).

Former members

Special thanks to:

• Rola- for making logo
• Lokutuz- for making P-40E and p.11c planes skins
• Raven- for making main banner
• F. von Izabelin - for translation the website
• Josiv - website admin
• Kos - Training coordination, discipline and.... patience
• Vins - Introducing procedures and precision.

We claim the right to exclusively use the name ' Polish Aerobatic Team "Eagles" ' and "PAT" shortcut.

Training manuals :

Here you will find training materials for formation flying and individual and team aerobatics.

Ideal Wingman Position- The frame of the windshield on the third rivet, the propeller hubcap touches the frame, wingtip on the other side of the frame!
This position gives us good height, in respect of the leaders location, and an ideal location behind him- the propeller of the wingman just behind the tail of the leader. Also it gives us the ideal location on the side- wingtips in one line... Eureka.
Vins

Pit personal program wrote in Aresti system. Pit

Cross road by Vins (print version )

First show, trained in 2005 over Normandy in P-40E planes. Here is presented fast review from second group leader.
Author Josiv. (~600kB *swf player )

Typical traffic circuit. Start, taking altitude, turn, fly parallel to air strip, turn to strip axis, descending, landing. Everything takes approximately 4 minutes.
Autor Josiv. (~300kB *player swf)

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