An easier way to get multiple flights to form up together and arrive at targets together

[PSYKOnz]

I wanted to get 3 flights of 3 b52s to take off, form up, fly to a target area and attack 3 different targets at in the same area at the same time.

What a nightmare

I decided to run a timer whenever I was working on this, just under 13 hours work to get it close to what I wanted.

even tho I set them all to take off immediately after the each other and gave them the same waypoints and altitude, they didn’t seem to follow it, flight 1 climbed to altitude as instructed, flight 2 climbed to altitude one waypoint after flight 1 and flight 3 was 2 waypoints behind. To get them to be in the same airspace at similar times I had to make waypoints in other directions so they could get themselves sorted then get together, even then flight 3 was at waypoint 4 before they were in the same area of sky, then they managed to hold in formation for the long bit of the flight, at the target more buggering around to get it to work.

Setting a time to be at each waypoint did nothing, changing speeds manually did nothing, setting waypoints far apart and adjusting them was the most useful it seems that you have to be a combination of all options to get them to do it,

 

I should be able to say.

take off

rally here (this is the moving waypoints around so they are close together down stream)

be at this waypoint at this time.

be at this waypoint at this time

attack target at this time

etc.

 

either I’m doing something wrong or the system needs a bit of tuning.