DaleHawerchuk

That is what I thought thanks

I have started playing with AI wingman on my practice runs, just to make it a bit more dynamic. Most things work right but I cannot manage to make my AI wingman attack a ground target. I tried designating a target on my LANTIRN and then calling my wingman to engage my target, but nothing happens, what am I missing?

@BIGNEWY Is this bug acknowledged/being worked on by ED? Just asking.

Thanks, you're right I didn't know about this general AI bigs sub. Anyway this bug wasn't acknowledged on the post you referred but it is more or less what I am experiencing. I just want to be sure ED knows about it cause it can be game breaking when a mission depends on AWACS input...

I don't know if this has been previously reported, but I couldn't find anything. After asking on r/Hoggit I learned I am not the only one that has experienced it. I just noticed it because I was more into ME but apparently been a problem since 2.9.6. Basically what happens is that an AI aircraft will reach a weird stalling-like state during a climb, where its speed and altitude are stuck, with high AOA jitters. For me this behaviour is worst with the E2, GS gets locked around 195 kts GS, usually happens around ang 20.7. As I said at this point the E2 gets stuck there @ GS 195 and stops climbing, while still following its route. Have seen similar weird behaviors from other aircraft, but they seemed to recover after a while unlike the E2. Here's what I tried so far to corner the issue: Change my WPs GS for the E2, from 200 kts all the wayto the maximum of 330, doesn't affect the behavior. Change my WPs distances and tried to "smooth" the climb to get allow a slower climb, doesn't change anything. Made the E2 start at final altitude & speed. No problem then to make it to other WPs and orbit, because there wasn't any climbing involved. All testing was done in Caucasus with E2 launching from CVN72. No mods used only custom liveries. Playing on the Hornet/SC modules. I'm out for the week, if this has not been previously reported and a track is required, I will provide one at the end of the week. Thanks

I've found a workaround to use with my buddies and it works very well. Additionally to the Voicechat channels, we use Discord Voice Channels (MIDS A & MIDS B). On DCS Voicechat we use COM1 for Mission (Strike/Marshal/Tankers/ATC) and COM2 for our flight tactical. We are then separated by sections on our Discord MIDS (with open mic). The trick is to bind Push to mute keybinds in Discord on the same buttons you are using in DCS as PTTs. This allows you to talk on DCS radios without having your wingman hear you in double, because as you are using DCS radios you are muting yourself in Discord. We don't have the need yet but I've seen you can also bind Discord channels switch, so you even do something similar to use 2 MIDS channels.

Oh man, that's definitely a love/hate relationship! Thanks though

VFA-193 are a bunch of friends that started playing together a few months ago. We are just getting into more "serious" stuff mission-wise, and I had a blast taking screenshots of our last flights. All aircraft liveries are custom made. I am currently working on a DCS campaign for the Hornet and if I ever get to finish it, these liveries are to be featured in it. They are depicting fictional squadrons, but I tried to keep the liveries and the whole airwing structure as "realistic" as possible, similar to what Kevin Miller / Baltic Dragon did with Raven One. Featured in the pictures: VF-77 Warmongers VFA-193 Gators VS-39 Mosquitoes* Feel free if you have any comments about the pictures/liveries, enjoy! *Special thanks to @Tomcatter87 for those, I started off from his S-3B skinpack to do my own.

Simple question, is it possible for aircraft within the same carrier event to have the same flight numbers, but with different callsigns? For example, could an event include Rampage 11, 12, 13, 14 and Texaco 11, 12? In other words, is the callsign considered sufficient to differentiate aircraft with the same flight numbers? I'm working on realistic campaign scenarios. When you start building strike packages including tankers and EW, you kind of go through them quite fast. I'm also assuming that as some USN aircraft are using the octal system, flight numbers can only use numbers from 1 to 7? Any light from someone with irl experience would be awesome. Thanks

I finally had a second shot at it, no problem this time, so seems like it was just the AI that went crazy the first time.

Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks for the feedback. And yes I know DCS AI can be janky I edit as well, not blaming you. So you are saying I should stay on Arrow 1's left side? like in close formation going up? This part confused me as I wasn't sure if I needed to stay with him (going up) or straight ahead (level). I went slightly up and not quite as close to Arrow 1 the 1st time, maybe that was the problem. I'll try again tomorrow and send you the track if it happens again.

I'm not sure if I encountered a bug or not but at the end of the formation flying in M02, 2 Arrows collided together during the break. I don't think it was caused by me as if I understood correctly, Ford & Matrix are supposed to continue straight away and climb, which is what I was doing. Did anybody else experienced this? No mods installed except Vaicom but it is only installed, I am not using it for now. I only tried it once for now. Anyway, not posting this to bring down the campaign, just to help Badger out. M01 went smoothly. I'm very much looking forward to finish the rest of the campaign. I learned flying the Hornet with Badger's campaigns. https://imgur.com/a/kiF6dRo

I did not! I'll check it out thanks

I am in the process of making a campaign, and needed some way to plan for my fuel in my missions. I am working on a fuel calculator/planner, but I needed some data first. Thought I could share the data I collected so far, pretty interesting stuff for a big Hornet nerd like me. Overall comparison, all the rest of the data in the PDF. I will share the calculator once I'm done and I had the chance to test it a bit. Hornet Fuel Data.pdf