trev5150 Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 Please make aircraft speeds make sense. Speeds should have a selection that doesn't cause issues. Should be able to select between indicated airspeed, true airspeed, calibrated airspeed, ground speed, etc. Why? For example, I should be able to set up a tanker track that disregards ground speed so that aircraft trying to tank aren't constantly chasing speeds. My uncle flew KC-135s and they didn't fly ground speeds in kph. 7
Exorcet Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 Tankers at ground speed is one of those AI things that makes anything but calm weather unusable. The default aircraft speeds are also totally unhelpful and add work if you end up switching a plane type, please allow them to be disabled: 5 Awaiting: DCS F-15C Win 10 i5-9600KF 4.6 GHz 64 GB RAM RTX2080Ti 11GB -- Win 7 64 i5-6600K 3.6 GHz 32 GB RAM GTX970 4GB -- A-10C, F-5E, Su-27, F-15C, F-14B, F-16C missions in User Files
trev5150 Posted June 28, 2024 Author Posted June 28, 2024 What we've found is that tanker speeds suffer from the ground speed thing in that the indicated airspeed is dropping per a sliding lapse rate as a function of altitude. This makes it a LOT of extra work to try to create tanker tracks that make it possible to fly the tanker at, for example, 250 kts. Right now the system doesn't make sense vs. an E6B or what actually happens in an airplane 4
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