Zombie F-16 (player-controlled) over Syria

[Ithronwise]

Hello fellows,

yesterday I had a strange and probably rare bug. I flew a mission over Syria to destroy two warehouses of the IS with GBU-10's. Because of the cloud layers and an SA-6 SAM site nearby I flew below 10,000 ft AGL. On the second run over the target area I was hit by an SA-18 Grail. But I did hear no explosion, I saw no plume. Actually I saw the missile missing my tail and going straight into the sky. The flight behavior of the F-16 was normal, no warning lights, no fuel or hydraulic leaking. I realised the heavy damage just after switching to the external view. But something was strange. The SA-6 stopped tracking me right after this "ghost" hit. I couldn't radio the AWACs, nor the tanker or my homebase and on the F10 map the F-16 was gone (see video below). Nevertheless all was fine until I dropped the landing gear on final approach to Akrotiri. In this moment the plane went into a deep unrecoverable dive and I had to eject. In the debriefing I saw the only damaged system was the AN/ALE-47.  In this mission I had activated some mods, but only one that affected the F-16 (CFT Mod 2.0.2 by Nightwolf).

This is not a serious bug and I think it is very rare, but I have seen some other reports similar to this in the WWII subforums.

I have no track file because they are completely useless for longer missions, especially with A/A refueling (in not a single replay of such tracks I saved, the plane was able to connect to the tanker). Attached you can find the dcs.log and the debriefing.log.

dcs.log

debrief.log

Edited December 30, 2021 by Ithronwise

[=475FG= Dawger]

This is not rare at all. Many modules can fly on after “death”, invisible to DCS but visible to other players.

DCS records the aircraft as dead, so you can’t repair but while flying, you can still kill others.