[REPORTED] Countermeasures after rearming - wrong EW page counters.

[Aernov]

I have started first flight with top 4 CM dispensers filled with chaff and bottom 2 - with flares, spent some during a mission and returned to base to rearm/refuel. After rearming with engine on I can't use kneeboard to configure CM loadout (which is as intended), and adjusting chaff/flare quantities in rearming menu seems to have no effect, Aircraft is loaded with 120 fares and 60 chaff regardless, and EW page displays incorrect CM values (for chaff only in this case).

[Mivina]

The counter also isn't updated if you change the flare to chaff. I.e. if you rearm 90 flares and 90 chaff it still shows 120/60

Edited July 8, 2021 by Mivina

[Hornet81]

Hello guys,
 

Thanks for the report!

 

We will check that issue ASAP and let you know. 

 

Regards,

 

[Hornet81]

Hi guys!

 

I have been testing your issue in SP

and MP and it worked. Could you send us a track and give us more information on what server or when you get that? 
 

thanks 

[Aernov]

AV-8B Flare-chaff experimentation.trk

Doing full mission with return/rearm would generate too large of a track, so I placed hot-started Harrier on the ground and experimented a bit:

1) I loaded it with 120 chaff (all in four top dispensers) and 60 flares (in bottom two dispensers) from the editor - and expendables were correctly loaded in mission and indicated in kneeboard page (although I didn't spend all chaff and flares to check the "real" amount).

 

2) After spending some I have rearmed the aircraft with chaff set to 120 and flare to 60 in rearming menu - and after rearming counters displayed 120 chaff and 60 flares in the same dispenser configuration as was set initially (all chaff on top, all flares on bottom), and kneeboard showed the same (I didn't check for real amount by shooting off all the expendables though). Then, after spending some amount again, I have rearmed with 60 chaff and 120 flares set in rearming menu - and got the same loadout I set in the editor (120 chaff top, 60 flares bottom). This is fine (if we actually getting chaff/flare amounts what is indicated in EW page and kneeboard) because there is no way to control which dispensers would get which CM type in rearming menu, so you'll need to shutdown and use kneeboard to reconfigure (which I didn't try during this test).

 

3) EW page counters displayed correct amounts, both initially and after rearming, but only in EXP AUT position. In UP position only 90 chaff were counted (while I loaded all 120 in top blocks), and during launch counter sometimes skipped and didn't decrease the number while chaff was deployed.

 

Also, if you try to launch chaff (located only in top dispensers) with DWN selected, nothing will be launched, until knob is positioned in UP, then chaff single or program will be launched (once, regardless of amount of times you pressed CM Chaff with EXP in DWN), same thing with flares in bottom dispensers. For some reason I thought that this UP and DWN selection just set priority to top or bottom CM blocks, launching expendables of desired type from them first, but not prohibiting launch from the other group of dispensers if selected one is empty or does not contain charges of desired CM type.

[Aernov]

Online mission (on private server) - and the same thing occurred after rearming:

1) Initially I filled all four top dispenser pods with chaff and bottom ones with flares via kneeboard after arming the plane at the beginning of a mission, with engine off.

2) Task changed after startup, and I rearmed for the second time on the ramp with engine running. I didn't touch countermeasures sliders in rearming menu at all (so they were set at 120 flares 60 chaff). And the result is on the screenshot. I didn't check for real CM quantities and pod distribution.

[myHelljumper]

Hi,

 

This issue has been added to our internal tracker.

 

Thanks for the report.

[AlphaJuliet]

Should be fixed, give me a heads up if not.

Cheers,

Alpha