Solved Anyone noticed any tanker issue? [Israel Theater]
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Hello, not a bug report, cuz i’m not at home, but does any of you guys, who usually enjoy making air refueling part of your missions, have encountered issue when trying to refuel more than a two ship flight? A friend was flying online with other 2 guys, and as soon as his wingman - which was AI, in a four ship flight - was done refueling, the tanker - that was supposed to give clearence to pre contact position to #3 simply ignored him and #4 and started climbing as if there was nothing else to do. Has anyone come across the same recently / could confirm this is something already known? Thanks BMS Devs and everyone!!
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There are a lot of variables when it comes to AAR so let me present a possible explanation. Any additional info you can provide might help to narrow it down.
First, I personally have never tried the scenario I think you are presenting; a 4-ship flight made up of human, AI, human and human in that order (so 1, 3 and 4 are human but 2 is AI). I don’t think that will make a difference to the tanker but again, I have never tried that.
One possible explanation could be in when the tanker was initially contacted. If, for example, #1 and his AI wingman were within the 10nm bubble of the tanker but 3 & 4 were outside the bubble then only 1 and 2 would have been entered into the queue. There would be no way for you to know or recognize this until #2 finished in which case the tanker would think it was done (this appears to be what happened). If #3 would have called for the tanker at that point (using Y1) the tanker should have put him (and #4?) in the queue and possible even 1 & 2 since they would all be inside the bubble.
The only thing strange we are seeing on a consistent basis is that if you need to refuel more than once, on any AAR after the first one you will likely need to press Y2 after being cleared to precontact in order to get cleared into contact position. First AAR works fine but second, third, fourth, etc. all require this extra step.
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Also humans need to be sure to make the Y3 “done refueling” call or the tanker won’t clear the next plane to precontact.
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@zeus Hey Zeus, thank you very much for the explanation, sir!! It was probably what happened. I Remember he contacted the tanker and #3 and #4 were not within 10nm from the tanker… We’ll try contacting it when everyone is inside the “bubble” from now on! Thank you again and happy new year!!!
@Snake122 Hey snake, Y3 was called, but the problem persisted… As Zeus said above, the most possible explanation is that the other elements were not within 10nm from the tanker when it was contacted. Thank you and happy new year!!!
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