AI Wingman - add commands

[Qiou87]

Hi,

 

I find myself often wondering how much fuel my wingman has in SP. How nice if such an option existed in the F10 menu, to simply ask “Report fuel state”? As flight lead I am the one setting the pace, however I tend to be much more conservative than the AI regarding fuel consumption. I always have more than they do, but how much? Impossible to know so far. It gets frustrating when you hear them call bingo and you are half way between the tanker and home plate, later followed by “ejecting”.

 

It would also be nice to have an option to “drop tanks” for the wingman, instead or alongside “drop armament”. What if I know his bags are empty and just want to ask him to reduce drag to get better fuel consumption? Especially since I do it on my plane, if the AI doesn’t drop its tanks they end up using a lot more fuel to keep up with me.

 

I feel like this would be relatively easy to implement (its all in a text menu and fuel reporting already happens around carrier operation so it must exist somewhere in the code) but a huge QoL improvement for us SP players out there who actually care about bringing all planes, including AI, back to base.

[Snake122]

Hi,

 

 

 

I find myself often wondering how much fuel my wingman has in SP. How nice if such an option existed in the F10 menu, to simply ask “Report fuel state”? As flight lead I am the one setting the pace, however I tend to be much more conservative than the AI regarding fuel consumption. I always have more than they do, but how much? Impossible to know so far. It gets frustrating when you hear them call bingo and you are half way between the tanker and home plate, later followed by “ejecting”.

 

 

 

It would also be nice to have an option to “drop tanks” for the wingman, instead or alongside “drop armament”. What if I know his bags are empty and just want to ask him to reduce drag to get better fuel consumption? Especially since I do it on my plane, if the AI doesn’t drop its tanks they end up using a lot more fuel to keep up with me.

 

 

 

I feel like this would be relatively easy to implement (its all in a text menu and fuel reporting already happens around carrier operation so it must exist somewhere in the code) but a huge QoL improvement for us SP players out there who actually care about bringing all planes, including AI, back to base.

Agreed! I just lost a wingman ejecting 25 miles from home a minute after he called bingo fuel. It's especially annoying because I'm doing DCS Liberation campaign so I lose a jet in my squadron and have to replace it

 

A better way to do it may be add that info onto the flight radio check option because the radio check is not that useful (besides to check if a flight member is still alive without datalink).

 

Sent from my LM-G850 using Tapatalk