fixed F-16 AI wingmen intermittently engage fake afterburner

[Fuggzy]

I'm seeing this in just about any Single-player mission I do -- Instant action, campaigns, missions.

AI Viper wingmen will appear to engage afterburner; the graphics and sound for it come on at random times and stay on for variable lengths of time, but his jet is not actually producing A/B thrust. 

I've attached a short track file from one that's readily reproducible on my system:  Instant Action -> Caucasus -> Free Flight.  One can see that it looks and sounds like -3 engages his A/B while I follow him, yet I'm able to catch-up and begin to overtake him on buster power alone, as if he's actually thrusting at about 85% power despite looking and sounding like he's stage 3 A/B. (I do not engage A/B at all in this clip).

F16 fake burner.trk

[Flappie]

@Fuggzy I tried your track but I cannot reproduce the issue. Can you please check and confirm this was fixed?

[Fuggzy]

On 3/17/2025 at 7:13 AM, Flappie said:

@Fuggzy I tried your track but I cannot reproduce the issue. Can you please check and confirm this was fixed?

Playing my own track back, it appears to be fixed.  And I haven't seen it in the wild for weeks.  Weird.

Edited April 5 by Fuggzy

[Flappie]

Thank you.

I'll tag this thread "fixed". Ping me in case you see this issue again.