Just got into DCS about 4 months ago. Love it. Started messing with the mission editor and I'm extremely frustrated. I've been creating scenarios with one or two units just to experiment and see what everything does.
My most recent frustration is the behavior of the AI bombing. First, I can't seem to get the aircraft to make a straight run over a target. I get a lot of circling and going around. For example, I set up a bombing run by 2 B-1s on an airfield. To keep it simple, it is a straight run from the spawn 500kts, 30,000ft. I set the bombing trigger on the way point about 10 miles prior, with the triangle on the target, set to drop all bombs, 1 pass.
What I get is B-1's breaking right prior to the bomb drop zone, circling, making a pass 90 degrees out from my desired path and then it drops one or two bombs and circles for another pass. This is the case no matter what kind of aircraft I use, B1, B52, f14. All loaded out with mk82 only.
I'll save my struggles of getting attack helicopters to behave properly for later.