Wingman not carrying out orders

[erjdriver]

I sent a target to wingman and then told him to attack - but he says 'unable' or 'negative'.

 

Am I doing something wrong or do I have a scaredey-cat wingman.

 

When I press the datalink send/mem - the light doesn't blink - so i assume it's received.

 

Do i need to uncage the shkval after sending?

 

I didn't save it on the abris - i locked on a target with shkval and sent via datalink.

[Catastrophy]

Select target, track with skhval, contact wingman, tell him to engage your target.

[erjdriver]

I sent a target to wingman and then told him to attack - but he says 'unable' or 'negative'.

 

Am I doing something wrong or do I have a scaredey-cat wingman.

 

When I press the datalink send/mem - the light doesn't blink - so i assume it's received.

 

Do i need to uncage the shkval after sending?

 

I didn't save it on the abris - i locked on a target with shkval and sent via datalink.

 

Any help here...still not working for me.

 

I watched coupla datalink videos and pretty sure am following the steps to a tee.

 

all i get is 'unable'.

[kilix]

I didn't save it on the abris - i locked on a target with shkval and sent via datalink.

 

this is the problem.

[erjdriver]

this is the problem.

 

You were right.

[mondaysoff]

I have a slightly different problem with my wingman, in that when I instruct him to RTB he lands on the runway, but carry's on through fields and trees and finally explodes when reaching water. It is in a homemade mission based at Batumi just for practice of navigation and targeting, when it first happened I deleted the mission and made a new one, the same thing happened. Don't know if this is a bug.

 

The funny thing was after about the fourth time of this occurring, for my wing mans insubordination I put a few canon rounds into him before he hit the water, exited the mission and I was promoted to Captain.