ME refueling aircraft

[pierreaf]

Hello,

I am newbie and need help about refueling in the mission éditor. I havé watch many vidéos on the web of M2000 refueling an il76. Dont Know How to plan That,? How to refuel an Russian plane if i am us or french plane as the m2000? How to plan this in the ME?

And can i put and How à navigation point on the refueling aircraft to find it easely?

 

thanks in advance for help. Pierre

[NeilWillis]

Hi pierreaf, welcome to the forum.

 

The mission editor can be very intimidating at first, but basically here is what you need to do.

 

Place the tanker on the map by selecting it from the available aircraft, and clicking where you want it to go.

 

Next, place a waypoint, far enough from the first that you can have a good attempt to connect before it will start to turn, and spoil your aim. To do that, just click on the map again, and you should see a line connecting the plane to a ring on the map. If that doesn't happen, click on the "Add" button in the waypoint area of the mission editor and try again. Place the second waypoint, and soon we will make it fly from one to the other and back again in a race track pattern.

 

Now you have the plane and a route on the map, the next step is to get the tanker to do what it is supposed to do. Find the advanced waypoints button, and when that is open, make sure you have "tanker - a - ref" as the first line in the waypoints. If it isn't there, then select the tanker role in the aircraft section.

 

Click "add" in the advanced waypoints window, and under "perform task" which is selected on the top line of the dialogue box, next to action (the second line) select "orbit". This will set up the orbit. You can also specify altitude, and speed here too.

 

Next, to ensure the tanker is tuned to the right radio frequency, you can add another advanced waypoint. Simply add another one, and select "perform command" in the first line, and "set frequency" in the second line. Make a note of the frequency there for future reference, or change it to what you need.

 

Now all you need to do is add a plane and fly it. place a waypoint in the same way for this one, close to the tanker, and then you can save the mission.

 

Then the frustration begins because it is not easy to poke the pole in the hole!

[pierreaf]

Thanks so much for the Quick and very détails answser. It Will help ME à lot. I Will Try it soon.

Just i cannot find the il76 as tanker for USA? Just russia. If i sélect the russian il76, and i fly a us plane to tank it Will be no conflict?

If i select the kc135 I cannot refuel the M2000. I have to select the other us plane.but I would like to try the il76 as I watched on the YouTube vidéo.

Thanks so much again for help I appreciate a lot.

Have nice flights

Pierre

[feefifofum]

Hi Pierre and welcome!

You have a couple options. The easiest is to make your Mirage Russian, and it will use the IL-76.

 

Alternately, the S-3 Viking can refuel the Mirage. You'll find this in the US and France countries I believe.

 

Lastly, when you open the mission editor, click file-》 New. A menu will open giving you the option to freely place any country with either the red or blue coalition. This will let you put US and Russian aircraft on the same side.

 

As long as both the aircraft and tanker are the same color you'll have no issues. The IL-76 will speak Russian though :)

 

As a final option, you can also use the USAF Agressors coalition which has every aircraft.

[pierreaf]

[pierreaf]

It works very well. Thanks again

Pierre