reported Air to air refuelling for AI does never finish

[Lookiss]

Re my previous post on strange AI refueling behavior, here's a track file. I had to accelerate a lot to go through it faster.

It's basically a sead mission, two hornet flights and two viper flights. When coming back they have a refuel WP. I used 2 separate tankers for each.

In both cases, the F-16's remain stuck and one flight of hornets ends up flying above the KC130's wing.

Attached 1 track file and the miz file.  

PGC_refuel test2.miz refuelAIbehaviorr2.trk

[Buzzer1977]

Same here with the F-15c on a KC-135. It get's refueled and then 'hangs downward beneath the tanker with an odd -6 AOA for ever.

F-15c-AI-Refuel4ever.trk

[Buzzer1977]

Seems also to happen with Su-33 on IL-78m ... AI get stuck with huge nose down attitude.

[unlikely_spider]

Man, I thought my wingman in an F-14 campaign was taking forever to refuel. I just ended up telling him to rejoin after a few minutes which got him to disconnect from the tanker. Fix soon? I see this thread is from April

Edited August 10, 2021 by unlikely_spider

[Flappie]

Yes, a fix is incoming very soon.

[Nix Mills]

AI air-to-air refueling seems to work alright now but after completing refueling, the AI seems to want to return to the carrier.

 

I'm trying to create a mission that requires flying deep into Syria with two F/A-18C launching from a carrier. I have set up the wingman as a separate group so that in can fly as my lead and attack its own targets.

 

The steps I have up are as follow:

- upon entering zone, orbiting KC-135 pushes to next waypoint  --  it then flies in a straight line

- at waypoint, AI gets Perform Task -> Refueling  --  AI cathes up with KC-135 and starts refueling

- ON REFUEL, AI inside the tanker's moving zone, it sends a message that the AI has started refueling  --  this works like a charm

- ONE REFUEL STOP, AI inside the tanker's small moving zone, it sends a message that the AI has stopped refueling and AI TASK PUSH to follow tanker -- AI breaks away, message appears and AI heads back to carrier

 

I have tried giving additional orders, such as AI TASK PUSH to follow play or head to next waypoint, but to no avail.

 

Gosh - these quirks are really frustrating me. Does anyone have suggestions to how to get this to work?

 

Edit/update: After trying a few other approaches, it appears that all the AI's waypoints disappeared after completing refueling.

 

 

Edited September 12, 2021 by Nix Mills

[cesarferrolho]

The F-14 AI wingman connects to the basket, but stays there without fuel flow, apparently. He will stay connected until the player orders him to RTB

AI_F14_S3TankerBug.trk

[Flappie]

Issue reported.

[84-Simba]

Still present ...
Today my F-14 AI wingman never disconnected from the basket

Edited January 29 by 84-Simba

[rob10]

2 hours ago, 84-Simba said:

Still present ...
Today my F-14 AI wingman never disconnected from the basket

It was fixed, the thread you're posting in is over 3 years old.  The current version of this problem is being discussed here:

 

[Tritolo41]

The light tanker problem has not been solved and the wingman also remains attached without ever disconnecting, I don't understand why you report the problem solved when things are identical to before, even the tanker's turn during refueling is excessive as already reported by several users. I attach tracker.

problemtanker.trk

[Flappie]

Today's was a campaign update, not a core game files update:

 

[Tritolo41]

@Flappie I assure you that there was an error on the changelog link, it led back to the one from 01/20

[Flappie]

OK, I understand your surprise, then.

The fix for the tanker-AI interaction should be in the next game core udpate.

[BIGNEWY]

threads merged