boundless84 Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 Hey all. Is it possible to set up a mission with multiple, simultaneous tankers that can be used by both AI and Player aircraft? I can't seem to get this to work. I can set up an individual tanker no problem. But I can't seem to get two tankers to function as tankers at the same time. Is this possible? The separate AI flights all go to the same tanker, rather than splitting up and go to the second available tanker.
Hog_No32 Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 Hey all. Is it possible to set up a mission with multiple, simultaneous tankers that can be used by both AI and Player aircraft? I can't seem to get this to work. I can set up an individual tanker no problem. But I can't seem to get two tankers to function as tankers at the same time. Is this possible? The separate AI flights all go to the same tanker, rather than splitting up and go to the second available tanker. Hey boundless, yes, that is perfectly possibly. I have many missions with two tankers, one S-3 near the carrier and one KC-135 further away. You have to make sure each tanker has a seperate frequency. And TACAN channel if desired.
Harker Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 I think it's a good practice to select different callsigns as well (Arco, Shell, Texaco), if possible, at least for Voice Attack profiles etc. But otherwise yes, definitely possible. I've made a small campaign, where I have one S-3 close to the carrier, one KC-130 close to the ingress point for basket refueling and one KC-135 at for probe refueling and the AI will divert to a tanker if needed. The vCVW-17 is looking for Hornet and Tomcat pilots and RIOs. Join the vCVW-17 Discord. F/A-18C, F-15E, AV-8B, F-16C, JF-17, A-10C/CII, M-2000C, F-14, AH-64D, BS2, UH-1H, P-51D, Sptifire, FC3 - i9-13900K, 64GB @6400MHz RAM, 4090 Strix OC, Samsung 990 Pro
boundless84 Posted February 2, 2020 Author Posted February 2, 2020 Thanks for the responses! I managed to get it working successfully. It seems I had everything set up properly. What I noticed was that in order to get Flight A to use Tanker A, and flight B to use Tanker B, is that flight A needed to be closer to Tanker A than to Tanker B. If both flight A and B were closer to Tanker A, they all would contact that tanker for refuel, even if the other tanker was merely 1000ft farther away. Moving their waypoint/flight path closer to the other tanker enabled them to make contact with that one instead of all sharing one tanker. Thanks again!
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