WelshZeCorgi Posted September 1, 2015 Posted September 1, 2015 in the SU-25T I got hit on the bombing run, Betty is telling me ECS failure, hydraulics failure... over and over again. My fuel is leaking out of my left wing and my right engine is on fire, with its power down to idle. Then it hits me.... :huh: I have no idea what to do. :joystick::joystick::joystick: I manage to limp the plane 50 miles, parallel to the Georgian/Russian lines, unable to turn the plane enough to point my nose towards friendlier skies. After my fuel runs out and I decend to 1000ft. I pull the ejection handle and sigh as the flaming, spewing wreckage, disintergrate as it decended into its grave. As fantastic as the training missions are, they don't have any instructions on trying to mitigate a bad hit. No training mission teaches you how to pump fuel out of a leaking tank into a nonleaking tank. None of them tell you what to do when your hydraulics fail or when one engine is on fire and you need to extinguish it and whatnots. My wishlist contribution is politely asking if DCS would consider training missions that focused on emergency situations, when vital systems are damaged and you need to stem the bleeding or perform emergency procedures in order to survive.
Slazi Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 Yup. This would be great. I think the ME already has the power to do this.
EngineerFalcon Posted September 5, 2015 Posted September 5, 2015 I don't think the FC3-level aircraft like the Su-25T have enough functionality to do emergency procedures. You can't pump fuel, can't use extinguishers, the only thing you can to is shutdown an engine. However the full-realism aircraft like the MiG-21, A-10C and Ka-50 all have quite detailed emergency procedures in their manuals.
WelshZeCorgi Posted September 10, 2015 Author Posted September 10, 2015 However the full-realism aircraft like the MiG-21, A-10C and Ka-50 all have quite detailed emergency procedures in their manuals. Which is helpful, but a training mission where you perform these procedures in practice would be ideal.
boomerang10 Posted September 10, 2015 Posted September 10, 2015 Which is helpful, but a training mission where you perform these procedures in practice would be ideal. Indeed, the ability for mission editors to set equipment failure conditions to create emergency scenarios would be nice. Examples could include blown tire on landing, engine failures, fires, and system failures during various stages of flight.
EngineerFalcon Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 Indeed, the ability for mission editors to set equipment failure conditions to create emergency scenarios would be nice. Examples could include blown tire on landing, engine failures, fires, and system failures during various stages of flight. There's already something like that for the MiG-21. You can set a system to have, say, 89% chance of failing after 5 minutes of flight. You can't fail all systems, but it's already pretty handy for training.
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