Wingman going bingofuel
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Another important fuel flight fuel conservation protocol is to fly slow (270 knot) S-curves immediately after take-off until your flight is formed up. Saves your wingies alot of fuel. I usually fly 90D to the flight path at 4-5D climb rate until full flight is airborne, then 180 back towards flight path.
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After your wingman reported “Bingo” or “Joker”, wait for “running on fumes” then give him the order for RTB and he’ll head straight to an alternate plate nearby. It mostly works and your wingman will land safely. Especially during 4 ship sweeps, this procedure saved me a lot of missions.
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@VpR:
After your wingman reported “Bingo” or “Joker”, wait for “running on fumes” then give him the order for RTB and he’ll head straight to an alternate plate nearby. It mostly works and your wingman will land safely. Especially during 4 ship sweeps, this procedure saved me a lot of missions.
Bad advice I do not recommend doing this.
If IA can reach a divert field is pure luck and there might be no divert field available close enough since “running on fumes” state is not a distance computed value. Decision to give the RTB order to your IA wingman or to lead him to homeplate is to be taken at the IA Bingo call or at human computed bingo state. Otherwise, safe return is seriously jeopardised. -
I’m guessing that the next permutation of the discussion would head towards the suggestion that maybe AI should head/land at the nearest airfield, even if it’s not the main or the alternative airfield. I mean, in RL, that’s what a pilot would do right? Not enough fuel for either main or alternative, might as well land at the closest friendly airfield.
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in RL, that’s what a pilot would do right?
Nope. Not necessarily. He will land on the fields suitable for a proper recovery and depends on many factors. Basically, unless in case of a serious trouble requiring an emergency landing, a pilot will expect to land on fields that he has planned to land on and has studied weather forecast, runway means availability, … etc … before departure. The closest runway might be his divert field, but it will be planned at mission preparation, not improvised in flight. In BMS, you are free to change the recovery field. Read again my blog about Fuel management.
A pilot will not wait until no more option , at computed bingo, he will abort and will not wait to reach the fumes.
Again, as flight lead, fuel management of your wingmen is YOUR job.
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I didn’t realize you could change alternative landing field.
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I use VAC (Voice Activated Command) though any voice program should work, to control my AI wingmen. I simply add the “Say Fuel” Command onto the other commands, i.e. "Attack my Target, Say Fuel “, “Fence In, Say Fuel/out, Say Fuel” etc… I also added a command “Sitrep” where I ask for " Status, Damage, Position, Fuel state” all in one command.
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I didn’t realize you could change alternative landing field.
Alternate field won’t change anything. As explained, IA do NOT take the divert field in account for fuel calculation for now (unless I’ve missed a “recent” code change). Cf again my blog page about fuel management.
What you can do to MAYBE increase (or lets say lowering) the bingo is to replace your recovery filed closer to the FLOT.