AI Aircraft not able to climb out of mountains

[MadDog-IC]

Just finished fixing all Su-27 Fortress Mozdok campaign missions in DCSW 1.216 and tested thoroughly.

 

However when I port them to DCSW 1.53 Rel3, a great deal of the low flying aircraft used for AI SEAD, BOMB strike and ESCORT aircraft crash into the mountains within a few minutes of starting the missions.

 

This is affecting mission 4,5,8,9.

 

The only part solution is to place their waypoints at higher than the mountains highest peak, but when they are engaged by enemy fighters they dive towards to the deck and do evasive maneuvers and then can't regain their altitude and crash anyway.

 

My observations using Mission 4 ie:

 

• Looks like the US F-15c, F-15e, F-16c SEAD and STRIKE, can't pitch up more then a couple of degrees, even with full afterburner, due to being to heavy, too high AOA or not enough thrust (All unlikely to be the case).
  
• Has changed the whole timing between flights, cause they just get caught down low in the terrain and can't get out.
  
• When put in to close formations such as (finger four close) planes duck and dive out of formation even when at 20,000 ft on route to battle, this behaviour is catastrophic when down low in the terrain.
  

Find attached mission 4, use the game commander to view the behaviour of all of the AI US SEAD + his ESCORT, US STRIKE aircraft.

 

Regards, Ian.