AI erratic refueling behavior

[Ramses823]

I fly the A-10C and in my user created missions I notice that when I send my AI wingman to the tanker he flys up to the tanker and into position with the boom lowered from the tanker but he will not connect to the boom; basically the boom sits right infront of his A-10. Now I notice that this happens inconsistently like 40 percent of the time I can get him to refuel and 60 percent of the time he just lingers infront of the boom... if I tell my wingman to anchor here in the vicinity of the tanker as I fly off to continue my mission and wait until he says he is at bingo I can then send him back to the tanker and he will refuel successfully... this bug started about three updates back and I do find it annoying but I'm using open beta so I know it goes with the territory because if you're on beta your basically testing the functionality of any recent updates so I'm just letting the DCS developers know that this issue does exist.

[metzger]

19 hours ago, Ramses823 said:

I fly the A-10C and in my user created missions I notice that when I send my AI wingman to the tanker he flys up to the tanker and into position with the boom lowered from the tanker but he will not connect to the boom; basically the boom sits right infront of his A-10. Now I notice that this happens inconsistently like 40 percent of the time I can get him to refuel and 60 percent of the time he just lingers infront of the boom... if I tell my wingman to anchor here in the vicinity of the tanker as I fly off to continue my mission and wait until he says he is at bingo I can then send him back to the tanker and he will refuel successfully... this bug started about three updates back and I do find it annoying but I'm using open beta so I know it goes with the territory because if you're on beta your basically testing the functionality of any recent updates so I'm just letting the DCS developers know that this issue does exist.

It's quite the same for the Viper. I think it happens when the tanker is turning, once he rolls out, AI will connect and refuel. 

[Ramses823]

I have tried to wait it out and see what would happen and nothing, now every once in awhile I can wait it out and he will eventually connect, what does work every time is if I send him to the tanker and he doesn't connect. Then I will have him anchor by the tanker and he will eventually call bingo then I can send him to the tanker and he will get gas. It seems like it has something to do with the AI fuel quantity logic. In fact when he first flys to the tanker he just sit there with the boom a few out from the refueling port and it must be when he gets a a fuel low situation that he finally connects. Funny thing is before these new updates I never had a issue with it... 

[Flappie]

Can you please attach a track showing your issue?