Player names disappear mid-flight

[GTFreeFlyer]

I've seen a few instance now where player names disappear mid-flight and I have no idea what is going on. If you click on an aircraft on the F-10 map, you can see the player's name in the details box that pops up. However, sometimes that player's name is no longer able to be retrieved and no name shows up. Anyone know what's up?

 

 

I stumbled on this after using lua to export some periodic details about the aircraft. I can see the player's name in the DCS.log file, but then just randomly during mid-flight the DCS.log file starts spitting out "blank" names. I'm using the getPlayerName() function. I originally thought it was bad code, but after watching replays, I can see the player's name is disappearing from the mission, which is why the getPlayerName() function is not able to retrieve the name.

 

 

It does not occur each time I run the mission. So far I've seen it happen only 2 or 3 times in the dozens of times I've looked. It also doesn't happen to the same player, nor occur at a known time. It seems to be completely random when DCS stops recognizing the player name.

 

 

The DCS.log file provides no clues. There are no errors or messages at all in between the last message where the name was successfully retrieved and the next message where the name is displayed blank.

 

 

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

TIA,

-GT-