@Red:
need more info
wouldn’t change a thing. DTC or not your INS flight plan is loaded. So what did you mean by that?
where was he? distance from homeplate? which frequency was he on?
What was your INS homeplate? Mandumi or Kimpo? what steerpoint was manumi on your INS flightplan?
what’s steerpoint number was he on? IOW what does the DED says regarding active steerpoint?
there is no steerpoint 0. Homeplate is 1 (departure)
contacting atc doesn’t change steerpoints. If CZ wasn’t performed you still have offset issues, easily checked with the highlighted CZ mnemonic in Mfds
hotas issue might also be the case as suggested earlier
INS issue would be a likely cause as well? but you’d have more symptoms
don’t use it. Or even better, don’t declare it in your keyfile
Maybe you can try a technique that burns less fuel and yield less possibility of fuel problems. Staying that long in AB can cause issues… beside burning a lot of fuel obviously.
Here’s what most of us do:
Take off, accelerate to 350 kts with burner.
then go buster, execute a buster climb to briefed altitude by adapting climb angle to maintain 350 kts
Works great, saves fuel and more
DTC:
This we didn’t set so the airbase was set to our previous mission at Mandumi. By not setting the DTC and saving preset 15 as home plate, it was set to Mandumi but we took off from Kimpo.
He was on the runway at Kimpo which was our home plate. This was set to stpt 7. As for FREQ can’t say, whatever it defaults to.
Mandumi wasn’t a stpt at all. We took off from Kimpo, flew north to hit targets (this was a quick TE I made btw) then made our way back to stpt 7 home plate.
Prior to landing, maybe 10-20 miles out he called atc for landing but Mandumi replied as that’s what our DTC had us set to.
He noticed his steerpoint was 27 miles away when he was practically on the runway so he didn’t stop and took off then he noticed almost immediately the steerpoint was at 0 miles once again and was where it should be.
so quick recap
We headed to home plate steer 7
stpt was on Kimpo airbase
He called ATC to land but the flight was set to mandumi tower
Mandumi replied to him - note that I didn’t call
As he landed he noticed steer 7 was 27 miles away
as he took off it reset to 0 miles
As for the fuel, bingo came on 30 seconds after we took off. You can’t burn that much fuel on burner but also, we were formed up pretty much and mirroring each others throttle setting. I was lead and was on burner the same time so if he was using too much fuel, I would have been also at bingo since we were 500m from each other. Out of 40 flights we never saw this until yesterday but we’ll keep an eye on it and do further testing