Mission editor - Airspeed - and tanker thoughts

[Headwarp]

To make mission editing easier it would be nice if we could set waypoint speed based on an aircraft's IAS rather than TAS.

 

For example - making a refueling mission I have to guesstimate the TAS of the tanker at various altitudes to make it fly at whichever IAS is recommended for a given aircraft's refueling speed.

 

I think this process would be much easier if I could just tell the tanker to fly at xxx knots IAS.

 

I have no qualms with this being optional, similar to the fact that altitude can be set either above sea level, or above ground level.

 

I can see this being useful for more than just Tanker missions...but on the topic of tankers.. better yet would be if the tanker had a preset speed to fly for each aircraft able to utilize it in DCS. I'm uncertain if this is already somewhat being done as I haven't tried to refuel on an MP server in quite some time.. but it'd be cool if the tanker just knew "Oh, an F-15 is requesting fuel, I better get to 310knots IAS" or "A-10C! 180Knots IAS"

 

With carrier ops being a thing, tankers might become more vital.