My mission design wishlist for the Supercarrier

[MagicSlave]

I have just recently started to dive in to mission designing more deeply, and I've run into some mission editor / lua-scripting engine limitations concerning naval air wing ops. Now this may be more of a mission editor functionality wishlist than a Supercarrier wishlist, but from a carrier air mission design point of view, I would really like to see these functionalities added:

 

1. The carrier turning into the wind automatically during launch / recovery windows (there already are some user made scripts with this functionality)
   
2. Ability to set launch and recovery windows manually or automatically
   
3. Ability to set a recovery tanker to orbit the carrier
   
4. To have AI units returning to boat automatically refuel only 1 or 2 thousand pounds of fuel from the recovery tanker, if they are below minimum fuel to trap safely (the current AI refueling behavior drains the S-3 tanker completely empty on one go, if they return from a mission almost empty..)
   
5. And/or to be able to set an amount of fuel to refuel or set a fuel level where to stop refueling
   

 

For the conclusion, I want to thank the ED big time for their efforts. It is amazing what we are already able to do and experience in DCS. Launching and trapping and air refueling and fighting in F-18 and F-14, especially in VR, truly blow my mind.

 

Thank you for making this possible!

[Nealius]

+1

 

Especially basic items like 1, 2, and 3. We should not need lua scripting (that constantly breaks with updates) to do such basic functions.

[Airhunter]

And have a BRC readout both in ME and on the F10 map, that is really easy to code.

[vctpil]

A Perform Task/Go to waypoint for the Air Carrier.

[Sonoda Umi]

A Perform Task/Go to waypoint for the Air Carrier.

 

It should be available for manual operations.