AI Flights very reluctant to fire Cannon or Rockets

[MadDog-IC]

AI Flights are very reluctant to fire on enemy convoys with guns or rockets on each parse.

 

Setup simple test mission to force a flight of 4 x P-51d armed with Gun and Rocket Ammunition to engage an unarmed convoy.

 

Doesn't make much difference if the flight is P-51d, Bf-109, Fw-109, Mig-15, or several other plane types, just seemed the P-51d was the worst offender.

 

Observation:

 

• Setup IP waypoint to 8000m, all aircraft in flight achieve 4000m and runs in on convoy and pitches down to fire canon/guns and rockets, this works fine from this height, however after the first run in they circle around and stay very low at an approx altitude of 800-1200m and do multiple strafing parses but very rarely do they pitch down enough to take another actual shot (Guessing they can't achieve a high enough angle of attack)
  
• Even though there is no AAA or Sam threats, having Reaction to threats = Evade Fire or Evasive vertical maneuvers makes the Test Flight perform worse at shooting the convoy than if set to NONE or Passive Defence.
  

Regards, Ian.

Test - P-51d v4 planes Attack convoy_DCSW v1.5x.miz

Edited October 24, 2015 by MadDog-IC
Reaction to Threats setting made some difference