{"id":9081,"date":"2011-01-18T02:13:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T07:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2011-01-18T02:14:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T07:14:06","slug":"fighter-pilot-speak-bfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/fighter-pilot-speak-bfm\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter Pilot Speak: BFM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>BFM<\/strong><\/em> is &#8220;Basic Fighter Maneuvers.&#8221;\u00a0 In the simplest terms, its dogfighting.\u00a0 Two aircraft fight one-versus-one in scripted setups, starting from positions of advantage, disadvantage, and neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>The objective is to teach a fighter pilot &#8220;close quarters&#8221; combat with his aircraft, though with the advent of high off-boresight missiles, the era of drawn out &#8220;BFM&#8221; (a la the last few minutes of <em>Top Gun<\/em>) may be fading.<\/p>\n<p>See more terminology and jargon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/fighterpilotspeak.htm\">Fighter Pilot Speak<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BFM is &#8220;Basic Fighter Maneuvers.&#8221;\u00a0 In the simplest terms, its dogfighting.\u00a0 Two aircraft fight one-versus-one in scripted setups, starting from positions of advantage, disadvantage, and neutrality. The objective is to teach a fighter pilot &#8220;close quarters&#8221; combat with his aircraft, though with the advent of high off-boresight missiles, the era of drawn out &#8220;BFM&#8221; (a la the last few minutes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}