reported earlier F-14 Shiraz Taxi Bug

[Exorcet]

I noticed in a recent mission that a flight of F-14's was disappearing from the map without a trace. Even log says they would start their engines, but then would never mention again. They were supposed to takeoff from Shiraz on the PG map from the four isolated C parking spaces on the west side of the base. I was not able to figure out why they disappeared, but I set up a test mission and found out why they would never takeoff. The lead plane has to cross the second flight member to taxi, but the AI thinks there isn't enough room to do this and stops. This can be fixed by just making sure the lead is parked closer to the main taxiway, but it took a while to figure out what was happening and the AI should have enough room to taxi no matter what order they are parked in.

 

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F-14 Shiraz Taxi Bug.trk

[Exorcet]

I now figured out why the F-14's vanish in the original mission. For the test mission attached I used start hot to speed things up. The original mission has the F-14's set to uncontrolled so they can start later. This makes them swing their wings forward on start up. The result is that as soon as they move, they explode.

[Flappie]

Thanks for your feedback, @Exorcet.

This issue was reported internally last summer.

Edited November 11, 2022 by Flappie