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[BlacleyCole]

Well base on input from this board I’ve come to two conclusions.

 

The first was real training missions are wanted were you actually learn to fly the multiple position aircraft with input from an instructor pilot (ip) using the explanation phase , the demonstration phase then the control are ginger to the student pilot (sp). Where you as the sp familiarize your self by doing the task then after the familiarize phase you enter the evaluation phase where the ip grades you on preforming the task. Not all tasks are evaluated some don’t even go into the familiarize phase.

 

The explanation, demonstration, familiarization and evaluation phases of training are how I’ve seen most training conducted in the military from my 20 year experience. It was also the best way to conduct training on unfamiliar tasks in a short time.

 

The second conclusion was that to program the ai to do the above is possible currently but the only one with access is ED. I would like to see everyone contact ED and request the ability too give the ai commands via lua or another method in multiple crew aircraft so they can act as ips.

 

I went to the dcs world wish list earlier today and laid everything out in more detail there. Please go read what I posted and support it if you ever want real in aircraft training otherwise you’ll see the four methods available for training he first two requires ED to do something the last can be do currently but are a stop gap fix and not good ones imo. If we had multiple crew positions active in multiplayer then the solution would be time consuming and expensive to have someone hopefully certified by the training group to current military rl standards to fly along with you and instruct you while flying in multiplayer just like you would do in real life but I expect that meathod to be expensive because except for the Huey which has 4 crew positions you could take off the front seat client would be trained on todays task then land swap seats with a gunner they get instructed then land swap seats with the last guy that way you can split the instructor fees among the three students but that would require a commitment by all four individuals the ip and three sps for a 20 mission campaign where you sit down and schedule those twenty missions from day one with a little play in the schedule if all agree ie lets say you all agree to meet on Saturday at 2pm mountain time. After a few missions everyone realizes a different time or date might work better so you all agree to a new time and day then as you progress some missions come easy to everyone and you do two lessons in one session or a mission is so tough that you need to sessions to pass evaluation so that extends the number of sessions or then maybe the mp server is down and not all can make it to the training. Imo being able to program the ai as an instructor and build missions on that in to a campaign would be cheaper than a live trainer and more convenient for all.

 

So please go support being able to program an ai Ipsy we can provide you with real training missions where you actually are taught tasks and not just evaluated on them.