Discovered why the second DCA (Falcon) never showed up…
Over the AOR, I couldn’t see them in the ACMI, so initially, I just assumed they were outside the bubble, but as it turns out, they never took off to begin with.
Their scheduled take-off time was 103715, 4 minutes before ours at 104100, but because they came from the far side of the airfield and AI doesn’t account for required taxi time (apparently?) they ended up behind us (humans) at the holding point, despite us only beginning to taxi at 103725.
Our #4 (AI-controlled aircraft) was kind enough to let Falcon pass, and only began moving behind them at 103955. When we took off at 104100, our #4 taxied through the entire Falcon-flight, however, and took off first at 104311. At 104325, Falcon 11 begins taxiing onto the runway, but never takes off, until at 104716, the entire Falcon-flight just vanishes from the ACMI.
I assume there is a time-out limit of 10 minutes behind their ETD?
@Red:
in 4.33 whenever you rely on the Ai tactically for mission dependent objectives you’re screwed 🙂
The trick is to make TE that doesn’t rely on them for the critical mission’s objective.
Probably why most / all the examples I recall are SEAD not doing what they’re supposed to. Except for once in a blue moon, we only fly the F-16AM-BE, which can’t carry the AGM-88, meaning we always have to rely on the AI to do SEAD for us.
Looking at the SEAD flight plan:
They both have two SEAD-waypoints (both En-route and Action set to SEAD), the first being located approximately 50NM before the second. I’ve done it like this because I’ve noticed that they can sometimes get too close to the SAMs before their SEAD-task is triggered and they get shot down. I hoped to resolve this by having 1 waypoint trigger the tasking, then have the second as a “fly here to find your targets”.
Looking at the ACMI, I can tell the SEAD pushes through their first waypoint for about 10 - 20NM, before they turn cold. This leads me to the theory that the AI SEAD does a search pattern at and slightly beyond their first SEAD-waypoint, but if they don’t get targeted by or no SAM is found within a certain range, they assume their target is destroyed or relocated, and RTB?
At that point, they were about 30 - 40NM away from an SA-2 and SA-6, though, so they should’ve had at least some indication of the SA-2 and the SA-5 further east being active, I believe…
@Mav-jp:
AI loadout ?
Second DCA (fourship F-16AM-BE), each aircraft had a 501+, 2x 370 Gal wing tanks and ALQ-131.
Both SEAD flights (twoship F-16DM-40) had 2x AGM-88, 2x 370 Gal wing tanks, and HTS.
One had 301+ and ALQ-184, the other had 400+ and ALQ-131.
CAS (fourship A-10C) was 002+, 2x AGM-65D, 3x CBU-105, 2x GBU-54, 1x LAU-68/131 HE, TGP and ALQ-119.