ground crew not performing tasks

[dudeman17]

I just came back from a short practice mission in the f-5e were I dropped some mk-82se a little too close to the ground and lets say they were more effective against me than the trucks but that's not the point. any way the damage sustained was my left elevator was gone and i had a hole in my aft fuel cell so I lost the fuel in my right tank. I flew home and did the usual floating landing then taxied to a parking spot experimented with doing a crossbleed start of my right engine which is pretty easy. then I shut down and repaired. so far no issue. once I was done repairing the ground crew would do nothing for me, I would ask for power then they would say copy. All was good but then they never completed their task just copy and done so i could not move I had chocks and no way of starting my a/c.

was I doing something wrong or is this a DCS problem or a bug?

[majapahit]

too much (hidden) damage, maybe?

 

which would make for a wish list:

 

have ground crew say 'too much damage'?

 

or ..

[nomdeplume]

Did you try to rearm after the repair? There is a bug where leaks in fuel tanks aren't fixed by a repair; so when you refuel it never completes and that blocks any further ground crew tasks.

 

Edit: one of the reports.

[Andrew8604]

I noticed an issue where the ground crew wouldn't do anything if the canopy was closed...which it is closed after repair, for some reason. If one of your stabilators was missing, I'd say your repair time was going to be days...if not needing to return the aircraft to a major repair depot. ;) Actually, for the F-5, if a stabilator was missing, I doubt the aircraft could be controlled, in reality. I think it would nose in, or pitch up into a flat spin or something.

BTW, I recall a video of a Blue Angels A-4F losing one side of its horizontal stabilizer in a mid-air collision. It nosed over into an inverted flat spin. Although that may have been partly due to CG issue after the pilot ejected. The plane hit the ground in an inverted, level flat spin.

Edited November 18, 2016 by Andrew8604
Additional comment

[NeilWillis]

As the repair had been carried out it is clear that comms were successful with the ground crew. Did you close the cockpit before requesting the re-arm?

 

If so, then there does indeed appear to be an issue. However the refuelling will stop any further activity if the tank was still leaking, as there would never be an end to that, and the crew would indeed be stuck at that point perhaps?

 

So the question is, did the crew respond to the request by saying copy? Did the fuel level in the breached tank start to rise? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, and then nothing further happened, the solution could well be the leaking tank not being repaired.

 

Otherwise, it may well be a bug, and if you can recreate it, save a track, and the logs, and then post them for someone cleverer than us to take a look.

[Robert31178]

I haven't found this issue myself. Some things:

 

1) if there are enemies nearby the ground crew won't work on your a/c

 

2) in other modules you have to have the canopy open to work with the ground crew, and engines off for repairs. I have been able to talk to ground crew with the canopy shut on my end though.

 

~S