[No Bug] Tanker wont respond

[markturner1960]

This is a strange one, as everything was fine yesterday,,,,,,today, i cannot get the tanker to respond to me in ANY scenarios, including the 2 refueling missions that came with the module ( Nevada & PG) and my own mission ( Syria) . 

Radios are all set correctly ( Tanker, KC135 is set at 250 mhz in all cases) and just to test, in my mission, i also included an F15SE behind the same tanker, using the same pre set frq ( 250mhz), which had no trouble getting the tanker to respond. I swapped role straightaway to the F4 and nada.....included a track. 

What could possibly cause this? 

tank.trk

Edited May 31, 2024 by HB_Painter
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[Caldero]

Hi

I had similar issues the first time I tried, but it was my fault: the freqs were OK but the switch was in PRESET

Regards

[markturner1960]

Thanks, but the switch position seems to make no difference, it was working fine with the default position before as well.....

[razo+r]

Generally, if the tanker is not responding, following can cause it:

- Wrong tanker type

- Wrong manual frequency or preset channel

- Wrong radio tuned

- Manual - Preset selector in the wrong position

- Wrong radio PTT used

I've watched your track and when you switched to the F-4, you were even able to hear the tanker transmit his waypoint report. So the only thing left is you probably using the wrong radio PTT.

When I took control of your aircraft, I was able to call the tanker without any issue. 

Edited May 28, 2024 by razo+r

[markturner1960]

Hi, thanks Razor, the strange thing is I am not doing anything different from yesterday, when it was all working fine. The F4 does not have a binding for each radio PTT button that also brings up the corresponding comm menu....so the only way to contact the tanker is to make sure you have the correct channel selected, then get the comm menu up and select the tanker. Yes? This is what I was doing before and worked, no problem. Is that how you were doing it? How are you using a PTT button ? I have tried using Jester to select the tanker radio. Makes no difference...

Edited May 28, 2024 by markturner1960

[razo+r]

38 minutes ago, markturner1960 said:

Hi, thanks Razor, the strange thing is I am not doing anything different from yesterday, when it was all working fine. The F4 does not have a binding for each radio PTT button that also brings up the corresponding comm menu....so the only way to contact the tanker is to make sure you have the correct channel selected, then get the comm menu up and select the tanker. Yes? This is what I was doing before and worked, no problem. Is that how you were doing it? How are you using a PTT button ? I have tried using Jester to select the tanker radio. Makes no difference...

 

You have Intercom and UHF radio to your disposal. I don't know why it worked with the ICS in your mission (perhaps easy comms enabled, I haven't checked), but that's what I used, so RAlt+\ in your case. But it should definitly work if you use the UHF PTT button, RShift+\.

[markturner1960]

EDit!! So I discovered that if I bind the UHF radio button, to my HOTAS ( did not have this before) it brings up the comms menu. And of course, then I can contact the tanker.....its not clear as the controls  options do not say that the key has the radio menu attached to it......

Genuinely mystified as I have been using the canned modules for refueling that came with the module for 4 days to practice and contacted the tanker by simply bringing up the comms menu using the / command bound to one of my HOTAS buttons- thats it! Obviously the radios were pre tuned in these so I never had to manually tune or mess with the preset buttons. So no idea how that has changed.....

Thank you so much for helping solve the mystery! Well, the mystery of before and now remains, but at least now I can get back to using the tanker.

 

Edited May 28, 2024 by markturner1960

[razo+r]

5 minutes ago, markturner1960 said:

Could you clarify excatly how you called the tanker using the available bindings? I may be missing something here, but surely, if you do not need to actually use a HOTAS button to "call" the tanker ( which in this case you dont, as there is no associated radio menu attachment which you get in other modules ? ) all you need to do is make sure you have the correct radio tuned then bring up the comms menu, ( I have it bound to my 4 way comms switch "press" position) and then choose the tanker and off you go. No need to use either intercom or UHF radio button? Are you saying I need to hold either of those buttons while using the comms menu? 

If you could share your exact procedure and how your controls are bound, it may help me to understand what you mean. I have not got easy comms enabled. 

Like in any module, with easy comms disabled, you have to use the radio's dedicated PTT button to communicate. For example in the A-10C, if you want to contact someone on let's say 118.0, you would need to use the VHF Radio PTT button. Or in the F-15E, if you want to contact someone on 118.0 and tune your Radio 1 to that frequency, you have to use the radio 1 PTT button to communicate.

It is exactly the same in the F-4, just that it has only one radio. So just press the UHF Radio PTT button. One press and the comm menu pops up. That's it, there is nothing more to it.

The intercom is used for communication with ground crew.