Very good lesson learned.
Once you get farther in the syllabus, you find you'll be opted for several different kind of sorties at the same time. It's not unusual to go from a 2 ship low level, to a formation, to a contact sortie from the time you brief until the time you takeoff. You have to be ready for all of them...because the WX, status, or whatever can change in an instant.
And once the scheduler starts slinging pucks, all bets are off.
This is one of the critical things in learning to become a pilot...going from a strict script to improvising to get the sortie done.
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