AI flies with no flight path created. New feature, bug, or old?

[nigelmcelwee]

I am relatively new to DCS and have always setup AI to fly flight plans. Well, I placed some choppers at Nellis with no flight plans and they took off and just flew around. Do they just randomly wander the skies and come back and land at some point?

[Corrigan]

Not completely sure, but I think that's old behaviour.

[BIGNEWY]

Normally they will fly around for a short time and return to base

[nigelmcelwee]

ahh ok. Wasn't sure if it was a new feature. Would be cool to have them just randomly fly around and engage enemies. Would make a nice randomness about it .

[baltic_dragon]

ahh ok. Wasn't sure if it was a new feature. Would be cool to have them just randomly fly around and engage enemies. Would make a nice randomness about it .

 

I think you can just set up one waypoint for them and set advanced action "Enroute task -> 'search and engage in zone', and then set up quite a big zone covering a lot of the AO. That should do the trick. Also, as a first action set up "ROE -> weapons free".

[nigelmcelwee]

cool, thanks baltic will do that!!! I always wanted more randomness to my missions so I setup lots of random flags but this makes the flights a lot more random. I can setup some conditions on search and engage as well to make it more random.

[ENO]

The script library has a few great additions that can really add some immersion to the average mission- even just by livening up the airports you're using in your missions. Alternatively there are CAP / GCI scripts available as well that can be put to use even with a minimum amount of scripting experience.