patpatpowercat Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 A while ago there was a bug reported on the forums. Herehttps://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=227160&highlight=ai+wingman+refuelNow, it would appear that your wingmen do refuel external tanks, but only if you have a hot start. If you have a cold start, they still only fill up to 100% full internal fuel, and do not fill ANY external tanks. I am working on getting a track file up, but a bit difficult with the whole having to cold start, fly to tanker, and then go from there. Can anyone else confirm this? METHOD: Create mission, put wingman+you low fuel percentages with external tanks. Takeoff in air and wingman will refuel up to full amount (can see in SA page). Reset with a cold start however, wingman only ever refuels up to 10.8, which is only internal fuel, no tanks.
toutenglisse Posted August 23, 2019 Posted August 23, 2019 (edited) The thing is that if you load external tanks and you limit the internal fuel in ME, you still have the external tanks full. I've made a mission with a wingman, 1 central tank, fly about 70 miles, then refuel (kc-135 Mprs), and continue mission (other 60 miles before action), and I observed bugged behavior from wingman during refuel : 1) If I take the left refuel basket, the wingman will approach the right one, connect, and immediately will disconnect without taking fuel. And he will do that again if I ask him to rejoin tanker. 2) If I let the wingman take the left basket and then I take the right one, he will refuel but just during about 15 seconds or so, while I refuel during 1 and 1/2 or 2 minutes (note that I wait for him at take off so our fuel consumption should be about the same). (Duration of refuel from memory - not exact numbers) That makes me think that wingman at best refuel internal - not external ? Not possible to save a valid track due to mission duration - and when I tried to make short track I didn't had the same behavior. Edit : in my mission, it's a cold start. Edit 2 : in case, I made a track (a bit trash..) in which I air start with Wingman, full fuel with a center tank, burn fuel with full AB to tanker (with increased time speed) so contact with tanker at low fuel. Let the wingman take left basket. Wingman stay connected few seconds and disconnect, while I need much more time to refuel, so probably no Ext. tank refuel for wingman ?F18-refuel-wgmn-qck-bug.trk Edited August 23, 2019 by toutenglisse
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