Tanker director Light realy dim

[Snake122]

I agree that the director lights are not 100% needed. Now that I'm used to it, I find both boom and drogue refueling about the same in DCS. I would throw out that I don't feel like you get much boom stablization effect and the boomer is a little slow to plug in, but that's me just going off of what I hear are the advantages of boom refueling.

 

Interesting to hear the commentary on that the KC-135 lights are notorious for being hard to see in real life. I would imagine that night AAR is where you would want to use them more since you have less visual cues and they wanted the lights pretty dim pre-NVG erw so they don't mess up your natural night apdated vision.

 

One other thing is that the director lights were not designed for fighters, the sides are switched for heavies format so that left side/hand is pitch and right side/hand is throttle on the lights. I don't know if the heavies of the late 50s/early 60s were going further under the belly were the lights would be more visible to them. Seems like the #1 design variable of the time, the B-52, really has a port about the same distance back as a Viper or maybe even less. So maybe this theory doesn't hold true.

[bradboom]

No heavies of any era went further under the tanker than the B-52. The only one that goes further but not by much is the B-2. The bow wave from a heavy receiver pushes the tanker around excessively and could cause the tanker to pitch down into the receiver causing a mid-air collision. The autopilot helps but can be overwhelmed by a fast-approaching jet. Fighters don’t have that problem.

[kontiuka]

Maybe mentioned already but perhaps ED could implement a cheat like they did for the super carrier landing.

[Emmy]

Maybe mentioned already but perhaps ED could implement a cheat like they did for the super carrier landing.

 

Don’t need a cheat really (and you don’t want anything that takes your eyes off where you should be looking) but it wouldn’t hurt to raise the luminance of the lights at least a little bit.

 

“Hard to see” =/= “Impossible to see”

 

Right now, it’s damn near impossible.

[GoodHope]

I just found this thread--I made a post about the PDI lights in the F-16 forum just a few minutes ago because I can't see the freaking things at all.

[fagulha]

Althought i did have problems in the past now i have no problems following the lights. (Valve Index user).

I wish the Meatball lights in the Supercarrier were visible like the PDI lights, now the Meatbal it´s blurry.

 

Regards,

F.

[GoodHope]

On 7/18/2021 at 2:20 PM, fagulha said:

Althought i did have problems in the past now i have no problems following the lights. (Valve Index user).

I wish the Meatball lights in the Supercarrier were visible like the PDI lights, now the Meatbal it´s blurry.

 

Regards,

F.

Man I wish I was having the same experience, although I'm not flying in VR.  One of the posters in my other thread is a RL receiver trainer and said the real world PDI lights are dim.  Kinda wish they'd give us an option to have an overlay (like the iflols overlay for the carrier) for the PDI lights.

[ECHO 12]

I agree they're hard to see.