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@BIGNEWY, @Silver_Dragon, thanks a lot for taking care of this, just please remember that there are two separate bugs in this thread: 1) The F/A18C stalling when performing abrupt maneuvers to try and intercept any tanker as well as being unable to come out of the stall even with sufficient altitude and at full burners. 2) The limitations of the code cueing airframes intending to AAR on tankers, failing to recognize that the next airframe in the cue has crashed and thereafter not allowing any further airframes to refuel, keeping them in the tanker's trail until they run out of gaz. As for my last message, I was just replying to the implied questions from @BIGNEWY whch was, are the tankers flying with sufficient speed for the hornets to refuel? the answer is yes, the problem of the hornet stalling does not happen during the tanker trailing sequence, it happens if the F18C has to perform abrupt high AOA maneuvers to intercept the tanker, which is most of the time. Please expect an answer to any implied question. No needs to lock the topic, I am done. Thanks, Lau

Hi @draconus, I could not agree more with you, hence the OP. That being said it does work a little by providing circular winds that vary in strength and direction over large areas among a bunch of other options that the users can fiddle with to try and improve the experience when it comes to simulating weather in DCS. Now I am sure you will agree that the real question is why ED is head on only developing new unfinished airframes and not continuing to improve the environment where we can use our detailed core mods, here I think of live real and historical weather including sea state for pitching deck carrier operations to stick to the environment part of the sim. Now to be fair carrier operations and all of this is fairly new but, I currently do not see the will to do a little work on the aforementioned core features of any flying simulator. If the airframes we fly in are so realistic, then they certainly need the environment that goes with it, otherwise DCS is only a display room for watching the addons we purchased, sort of a 3D model viewer. Best, Lau

Thanks @Art-J Let's hope for the best. Your tread did not come up when performing a research with "Central Tail Strut Drive"

Dynamic weather, wind not shifting direction and speed with altitude (coriolis + gradient pressure effect)

Did some testing and this has now been fixed, thanks

While making a fuel and payload calculator, I noticed a difference in fuel density used by ED between the internal and external fuel tanks. Any reason for this, perhaps a variation in octane that could provide and extra boost when switching tanks ? Also, both drop tanks types carry the exact amount of fuel, with one being just heavier, what’s the point, better air penetration ? ED Lbs per Gal int 6,4 ED Lbs per Gal Ext 6 GAL LBS Top Tank 48 308 Bottom Tank 37 237 Total internal 85 545 Lbs 45 Gal Torpedo drop Tank empty weight 49 45 Gal of Fuel 270 45 Gal Slipper drop Tank empty weight 35 45 Gal of Fuel 270 Best, Lau

Really gentle on the throttle and brakes to avoid breaking the tail strut drive on the Normandy 2.0 Manston and Odiham AIPs, but that’s not enough. I keep restarting the missions many times until I finally manage to take off without damaging it. It's quite a massive piece of equipment and looks very sturdy, it can't break that easily IRL. When it breaks it is possible to hear a big impact sound effect, subsequently it will not retract with the main gear after t/o. The Mosquito is unusable as is when starting from the ground. Actually it possible to taxi with the damaged tail strut, it will just not come up with the main landing gear + this annoying bang, bang noise effect. Best, Lau

If there is space to write 350 deg, there is space to write 10 deg (pls see in red). Thanks, Lau

Thanks @razo+r lowered gama a bit to no avail, the pointer has no enough contrast with the sun at 4 o'clock high. The compass can not be usable only half of the time. I feel that we need more contrast on the central part of the pointer and end it as an arrow towards the graduation for more precision. I tried to locate the pointer in the textures files to paint it RED with no avail. No such problem in the Mossie, the pointer is thin and is not sitting on top of a wider base like in the Spitfire. Access to the compass in the Spitfire is awkward enough to on top of this add visibility/reading issues. Cheers, Lau

Compass Heading pointer covering almost 6°, that is too wide a range for precision DR, it should be pointier or like the end of a needle or slimer for 1° precision readings. Thanks, Lau

@Exorcet I might not have been very clear in my message, the idea I am trying to convey is that the warning pop up would be optional, the players deciding to activate it or not for some important units like carrier groups by simply adding a tick mark in the unit configuration page in the ME. That means if you do not use the option you wont get any hindrance out of it. I do save multiple missions but a lot of things can be done in an hour of work or even in ten minutes, there are times when your work is just not backed up and you are at risk of losing precious time. The pop up window seems like an easy work around to an otherwise complex implementation of a step back function. Best, Lau

Hi @BIGNEWY 250 Kts CAS / 375 Kts GS at FL250 should be plenty for a Max GW F18C. The point is that the current F18C AI code is preventing the AI to fly the airplane properly. Even if the AI F18C stalls from FL250, it should be able to recover. Currently the AI F18C can be seen continuing to stall to the ground at Max Burners with high AOA, the code should allow the AI to give a gentle push to unload wings and recover speed, but it fails in that perspective. Also and while we are talking about this, it is essential that the code limitations of the KC135 MPRS are addressed. It seems that the stalling AI F18Cs where logged as the next unit in the AAR trailing process by the KC135 MPRS, since the AI F18Cs crashed the AI KC135 MPRS kept waiting for them, not allowing the other planes to refuel. The other planes will then remain stock in the AI KC135 MPRS trail until they run out of gas, failing to accomplish their mission and therefore breaking the scenario. Thanks,

@Elphaba Thanks for your feedback, it is scary how the old DCS is preventing the new DCS from evolving... The least would be to have a warning window pop asking for confirmation before the unit gets deleted. If an option was added in the unit settings (e.g. in the page where NVGs, chaff etc can be configured, albeit a page in the CVN or any other way...). I mention the carrier, because in my case I only wanted to delete a trigger that was next to a waypoint of the Carrier Group which in turn I used for timing all the triggers of the mission I worked for months. Deleting so much work for a simple mistake was a real nightmare. Sure it is not a lot of work to simply allow players to choose on which units this warning window would pop up. I am sure I am not the only one mission editor that almost ripped his hair off after such event. Best, Lau

Hi everyone, @BIGNEWY Thanks for taking the time to look in to this valuable feature for the future of simulated modern warfare operations within DCS. Yes of course, I am aware of the existing possibilities with FARPS and a combo of vehicles, unfortunately they remain static for the duration of the mission, which defeats the purpose of allocating supplies to a randomly evolving front line. Helicopters are slow and as maps get increasingly bigger; this will increase the time they can remain in contact with the front line, reducing ferry flights to bases and FARPS provided they manage to remain fairly undamaged. Here is a link to a video showcasing HB Viggen workaround since they do not have access to the source code : AJS37 Viggen: Building A Road Side Re-Arm Base FARP Tutorial | DCS WORLD It would be nice to have a clean code that allows players to rearm within the radius of a vehicles combination, provided the airframe is WoW. This could be limited to Fuel and Ammo, living the repair capabilities to major airfields for the sake of realism and mission balance. In SP, players will manage balance since having unlimited resources could be considered a cheat in MP, maybe opening the way to a more ambitious front line supply chain project, where fuel and ammo from trucks could be limited by their payload capacity. Reloading trucks could be done by simply making them transit near a FARP or an airfield, dynamically depleting limited resources with perhaps time constrains on loading and unloading as it is currently done for rearm/repair/refuel. But again, what I am asking is simple, just please give us access to the rearm/refuel window when close to a set combo of vehicles. This should not be limited to choppers, F18C and other airframes can also rearm from roads in real life. Thanks @Dangerzone Thanks for your help and interest in logistics and supplies in the battlefield, I will check the MOOSE script but, I am really after a simple and clean solution like what was done by HB for the Viggen, without the need to use the checklist shortcuts as demostrated in the video linked. Just nice and easy refuel/rearm from trucks. Best, Lau

@BIGNEWY The main advantage of a helicopter is its ability to land almost anywhere, hence the extensive use of mobile FARPS and by mobile, I mean giving the ability to players to refuel & rearm from trucks that can be relocated at any time during the mission via the F10 map or using the combined arms module. There is a post somewhere where this topic was discussed and BIGNEWY reply was that after checking with the Dev TM this is not possible and that the current FARPS are a way around it. With this type of answer, BIGNEWY is implying that HB dev TM has better coders since they have managed to implement this with the Viggen! Best, Lau

Often carrier operations will resume after the bad weather has just improved enough for carrier launch and recoveries with frightening pitching deck conditions, something that it is not possible to simulate at the moment without increasing relative wind over deck and making the airplanes land almost as choppers. Best, Lau

Hey fellow virtual pilots, It seems that with ED's AI limitations added from one end of the mission to the other, the chances of recovery are very slim for AI and even sometimes for the players with the deck fooled by AI that did not launch and remained stock on the catapult. So effectively it’s a very tricky business to micro manage the parking allocation of AI through spawn and startup delays, the super CVN being unable to prevent AI to start taxiing all at the same time and consequently jamming the deck. Once AI is airborne you have the other sets of bugs with F18C stalling while trying to intercept tankers, preventing other aircraft from refueling since they are waiting on an F18C that will never make it after crashing. Then you have the mission for the few that survived the initial massacre that must AAR before being able to head for the recovery pattern and then what seems to me like a broken CASE III recovery with AI never making it to the deck on endless loops around the CVN. If I get one or two AI on the empty CVN deck that would be all out of 14 airframes launched, more often than not these are an E2C and a COD that do not need to AAR. Please let me know about your experience since I am interested to know if I am the only one that wasted so much of my precious time trying to make a product work? Yet not a word on AI improvements in 2024. Best, Lau

Thanks for having fixed this, a real treat to be able to use WW2 real maps MAG Var with the SIM and with the correct date. Best, Lau

Unbelievable there is no "Step Back" function to revert from a stupid and time consuming delete mistake...

Allocating F14B to a parking spot next to elevator 3, consequently preventing further aircraft from using elevator 3 until the F14B is removed which, eventually happens after a while and a long cue of airplanes jamming the deck.

With the AI F18Cs stalling again while intercepting the tanker this is happening again, following planes on the tanker cue are unable to AAR since the tanker is waiting for the crashed F18C that still sadly will never make it to the tanker. This is a mission braker, since all airframes will subsequently run out of gaz. Sorry, I have no track, just play with the SIM.

AAR probe light too dim (Ref F18C from ED for comparison) Had already explained the problem back in 2020 with no feedback from HB team; this problem is still relevant in 2024, just do some AAR and you will feel the need for a brighter probe light to avoid being dazzled by the very bright tanker lights when wearing NVGs. My initial msg back in 2020

@NineLine Problem is back: F18C unable to come out of a stall even with burners. The stall mainly happens when trying to intercept tankers for AAR. It does not matter how much energy you will give the AI F18C prior to the maneuver, it will just deplete all the energy until the crash. This is a mission braker and old problem.

@Silhou BUG reported in 2022, acknowledged by HB (you) in 2023 not fixed in 2024. Just please disable the AI ability to play with the trim while the plane is on the ground or on the deck of the CVN. This is really annoying to have to retrim the airplane everytime I jump to the RIO seat to finish configuring the aircraft. Best, Lau

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