Setting Up AWACS in Mission Editor?

[GrEaSeLiTeNiN]

Hi,

 

Would appreciate some help with setting up AWACS in the Mission Editor:-

 

a) Do I need to give the AWACS plane way points or can it just circle around a single way point?

 

b) What way point actions should I choose?

 

c) What is a good operating altitude and speed? I set 20,000ft 250knts but it starts out at about 6000ft and wants to RTB.

 

d) I have set and used the Manual radio frequency indicated in the ME (251MHz). But I don't see an AWACS option in the Comms menu. What am I missing?

 

Thanks!

[Ramsay]

a) Do I need to give the AWACS plane way points or can it just circle around a single way point?

• Give it 2 way points i.e. 0 (spawn ?) --> 1 --> 2.

 

b) What way point actions should I choose?

• 'AWACS -a' and 'EPLRS -a' at WP0 (spawn) - usually added automatically.

 

• Orbit at WP1, race track - will fly to WP2 and then return to WP1, repeating the orbit until cancelled by a trigger or out of fuel.

 

c) What is a good operating altitude and speed? I set 20,000ft 250knts but it starts out at about 6000ft and wants to RTB.

 

• Mission/scenario dependant - I'm using 350 KGS at 25,000 ft for my training mission, set/check altitude and speed for each WP and the 'orbit' action, so they match.

 

Note: The ME default altitude is approx. 6562 ft.

 

d) I have set and used the Manual radio frequency indicated in the ME (251MHz). But I don't see an AWACS option in the Comms menu. What am I missing?

• No idea without a .miz or .trk file.

 

Revientor Reborn did a video covering it, you should be able to follow along without understanding Spanish.

 

 

Note: his AWACS is missing EPLRS, as the tutorial pre-dates the addition of Link-16 to DCS.

Edited March 24, 2019 by Ramsay

[joey45]

For the radio feq it needs to be entered in the advanced (waypoint actions)

[GrEaSeLiTeNiN]

Thanks guys. I got the E-3A (and E-2D) AWACS to work with one waypoint having 3 actions (AWACS > EPLRS > Orbit). AWACS would call out contacts and I could radio AWACS and get a response. (Got to be on the right Comm radio and frequency though.)

 

 

 

Edited March 18, 2023 by GrEaSeLiTeNiN

[Florence201]

For realism, make it orbit in a racetrack, approx 350kts at circa 30000'. I regularly use these as mt settings. Just remember to check to height and speed once you set "orbit" command.