Forcing tanker to RTB to particular base?

[Tricky11]

Is there a way to force a tanker to rtb to its takeoff base? For some reason it rtbs bingo fuel to closest base?

[TechRoss]

I would think if you setup your WPs so that the tankers landing WP is on the base you want it to land it will RTB to that base. Remember to set your 2 WPs for the actual refueling orbit. It should orbit till it needs to RTB and then go where you told it to go.

[Tricky11]

I would think if you setup your WPs so that the tankers landing WP is on the base you want it to land it will RTB to that base. Remember to set your 2 WPs for the actual refueling orbit. It should orbit till it needs to RTB and then go where you told it to go.

 

You would think that is how it would work wouldnt you but it doesnt. It just RTBs to nearest Blue airfield?

[Kang]

I think the point of that behaviour is that it enables your tanker to stay on station for a while longer and basically a friendly airbase is a friendly airbase.

One thing you could try, though, is to use a 'Stop Condition' for your orbit waypoint and set it to a time guesstimated to happen prior to bingo. That'll make your tanker proceed with the planned flightplan and thus return to the base you want it to go to. It's just a little fickly to set up and of course doesn't work well for multiplayer missions in which it is very hard to guess how much fuel the tanker dispenses.

[PreAmp]

You could try to set the other airfields to neutral or red. It will then not use those.

But that will not work if you need those bases for other friendlies, though

[ScopeDope]

This is just another case for needing a fuel state trigger. At x fuel, RTB.

[Delta99]

This is just another case for needing a fuel state trigger. At x fuel, RTB.

 

You can do that in scripting.