tietze

Jeg ville gerne sætte en TS3 op, men har ingen windåse til at køre simulatoren 24/7.

:lol: :lol: I recognize that depiction... :joystick: concentrate concentrate - arrgh!

I took control in your mission and noticed the same - all the "filll disengage" buttons were pushed down - if you don't push them down (enable them) it works nicely!

After having seen the track and drawing on my own emerging experiences I think you are aiming too high - try going in a bit lower so the boom gets a steeper angle and he will extend the boom over 50% if necessary. As shown on my track I try to achieve this through: Lining up on the right side of the tanker trimming the aircraft for flying steady without stick input at the speed of the tanker. When in pre-contact I try to keep the dotted reticle between the wings of the boom before the boom-operator wakes up (reticle.jpg). When satisfied I engage the autopilot in alt/hdg mode. Move forward and begin the dance using small stick input and throttle. As shu77 mentions above (#146) a steady hand is important - trim and autopilot helps me with that. As well as setting up a deadzone (appropriate for the axis) and a user-curve for the stick input, so the initial joystick input will be smooth (joystick-axis.jpg). I don't think the indication on the right and left side of the Stratotanker is entirely precise. Take a look at those two pictures showing the boom completely extended and the right indicator not indicating the aircraft completely A(ft): tietze-refueling-05.trk

No, in pre-contact it just stays there at half way out in the green zone. When the connection is established I think the up/down distance is really important. It should be shown by the indicator on the left side of the Stratotanker (indicating boom elevation), but I usually see it indicating U with a red arrow (post #55 above). As the indicator is almost impossible(?) to see from the cockpit I'm having a hard time figuring out other visual cues that I can relate pitch adjustments to. On one occasion I have seen the indicator indicating something other than U: I really have a lot of problems getting that as well - I just tried a couple of times and I can only do it when being lucky to hiy the right spot and using autopilot.

I expect that if it is modelled correctly it has to do with positioning. On the screenshot below the boom is extended into the orange part (I haven't yet dared to check the red part): The below screenshot is from the same session where I started out with 20% fuel and ended with close to 100%:

Ja, det er dælme tungt! :-)

Glæder mig dælme til at mit ankommer ;-)

Har også anskaffet mig beta'en. Jeg kan se at Danish_Squid også har fået sig et styk HOTAS? :-)