crew not launching / connecting to shuttle with two aircraft

[Gun Jam]

didn't see reported yet

online with cats 1 & 2 (not sure about 3 & 4) If two aircraft roll out to cats 1 and 2 the crew will only interact with the craft nearest to them. Once they start the launch procedure with the 1st aircraft the 2nd aircraft approaching either cat 1 or 2 will be ignored until the 1st aircraft is launched then the 2nd crew will respond to the 2nd aircraft allowing them to hook up and launch.

 

This makes launching pairs not possible.

 

Thanks

 

-Gun 

[RaisedByWolves]

I too have seen this. Only with HB f-14 so far.

[Scotch75]

Yes, I too have noticed this. I think the deck crew believe there is not enough wing clearance (there is) when a Tomcat is connected. I have parked on the Jet Blast Deflector in a Hornet with wings spread and a Tomcat next to me is locked into the shuttle, the crew did nothing. As soon as the Tomcat launched, the crew started working as normal.

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[Gun Jam]

yes I was using the f-14 but it also effect the f-18 if the f-14 is the first to the cat and the f-18 then rolls up.  This used to not be a problem before 2.7. I could launch f-14 with f18 no probs.

[roobarbjapan]

Can confirm this problem on many servers for a long time. F-14 user here. Asking for launch does nothing. The deck crew will ignore you until the first aircraft clears. Same thing happens with cats 3 & 4 when trying to launch an F-14 pair. 
 

The only work around I’ve found is launching a pair from cats 1 & 3. 

[Iceviper]

Yeah seeing this as well. Its actually what I came to the forums to research but find I'm not the only one. Some AI wingmen wont take off because of it. I hosted the mission and my AI wingman takes off, if I allow him to hook up first but I'm ignored until he clears the boat. My mates wingmen didn't hook up and take off at all, just taxied out and sat there. They took off after my mates had disconnected from the server. I used a small simple script to clear the AI flights that subsequently didn't take off and while they cleared for me, they were still visible to my mates. Very odd. Additionally there are no F menu commands to ask the boat for start up or for permission to taxi, is that new and intended or part of the cause?

[BarTzi]

On 7/7/2021 at 7:08 AM, roobarbjapan said:

 Same thing happens with cats 3 & 4 when trying to launch an F-14 pair. 
 

 

 As it should. You can't connect two aircraft to cats 3 and 4 at the same time.

[draconus]

On 7/12/2021 at 12:04 PM, Iceviper said:

Additionally there are no F menu commands to ask the boat for start up or for permission to taxi

Correct, normally you just follow the ground crew orders for startup and yellow shirts to the cat, but that's not implemented.

You can however request launch in ground crew menu if they are in recovery mode.

[sLYFa]

On 7/14/2021 at 2:21 PM, BarTzi said:

 As it should. You can't connect two aircraft to cats 3 and 4 at the same time.

You certainly can IRL, cat 3 just needs to hook up first. 

[BarTzi]

2 hours ago, sLYFa said:

You certainly can IRL, cat 3 just needs to hook up first. 

Yeah It's my bad. You can't in DCS because they don't load both of those cats at the same time.

Edited July 16, 2021 by BarTzi

[Trancers]

I don´t get an active CAT after rearm and refuel ... pressing "F7" in ground crew menu, but the launch crew is still in the recovery mode and have their third breakfast 

Edited August 3, 2021 by EnemyMind