Tacan navigation - air refuling still not working

[BIGNEWY]

KC-135 does not provide heading from TACAN, only DME

[Wing]

7 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

KC-135 does not provide heading from TACAN, only DME

Check here for documentation proof of how the current Tanker Tacan is bugged. 

[Flappie]

You mean this post?

 

[bukizzzz]

This thread is hilarious

[skywalker22]

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On 8/23/2021 at 10:37 PM, MARLAN_ said:

KC-10 can give bearing, KC-135 cannot.

KC-135 can still give us bearing and distance in DCS. So this bug is going on for years and hasn't been fixed yet.

And to contanct the tanker you have to set to Transmit/Receive mode, which is not correct either (it should be A/A only).

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Another thing about the Tacan:

So which TACAN frequency sets the Tanker if I have to set on 64? Does it sets to 1 as well (63Mhz apart)?

I'm asking becuase in mission editor if I set the Tanker to 1X, I also have to enter 1X (in F-16, which I fly the most) to get the distance (and the bearing !?!) to the tanker. 

[Chain_1]

On 6/18/2024 at 7:01 AM, skywalker22 said:

 So which TACAN frequency sets the Tanker if I have to set on 64? Does it sets to 1 as well (63Mhz apart)?

I'm asking becuase in mission editor if I set the Tanker to 1X, I also have to enter 1X (in F-16, which I fly the most) to get the distance (and the bearing !?!) to the tanker. 

IRL they would be 63 channels apart.  For the mission editor, you're setting what channel you want the fighter to put in for that tanker.  The simulated tanker crew, in your example, would set their tacan to 64.  You may already know, but air-to-air tacan uses Y, not X.

[YoYo]

I noticed something like that. I have TACAN set correctly on the tanker. In T/R mode, TACAN is visible in the air, heck, we even have a distance to it. However, when we switch to A/A TR, the proper mode of operation, we still have the direction but we lose the range, and this is the proper mode for working with TACAN in the air. Bug?

T/R (direction and the range)

A/A (direction, no range):

78Y.

Edited January 9 by YoYo

[Tholozor]

The developers have purposefully coded the tankers to use ground-type TACAN instead of aerial TACAN: 

 

[skywalker22]

8 hours ago, YoYo said:

I noticed something like that. I have TACAN set correctly on the tanker. In T/R mode, TACAN is visible in the air, heck, we even have a distance to it. However, when we switch to A/A TR, the proper mode of operation, we still have the direction but we lose the range, and this is the proper mode for working with TACAN in the air. Bug?

T/R (direction and the range)

A/A (direction, no range):

78Y.

No, its not working. Go back out, and back into Tacan page, and select A/A TR mode. then type the tacan frequency number, and you will see it's not showing direction. And set the EHSI to tacan as well. Tested that a couple of weeks ago.

I hope ED fixes this issue before plane goes out of EA. We had a lot of discussion about it (link in post above).

[YoYo]

Thanks for the reply. The topic is from 2022, so hello ED?