Raven One Mission 3 Observations

[BunnyKeeper]

Hi All,

Firstly a shout out to Baltic Dragon who do a great job bringing Campaigns such as Raven One to us "armchair" pilots.

I've been working through the missions and currently trying to complete Mission 3, however there appears to some issues:-

Issue 1 - Starting the mission from the Carrier and navigating to the refuelling tanker:-

• Smoke gets first go at refuelling and once complete the drogue retracts into the tanker pod.
• I give the ready pre contact message and the tanker clears me to contact but the drogue remains in the refuelling pod?
• If I abort the refuelling and go through the process again it works fine.

issue 2 - Moving on from the refuelling, once i arrive at Basrah:-

• I instruct Smoke to do the show of force, once done he wonders off. There is no further comms from the guys on the ground?
• If I carryout the show of force the mission moves on ok. I haven't completed the mission beyond the moving target leaving Basrah.

Issue 3 - From the carrier but skipping the first part of the mission I morph on the right of the tanker:

• I check my fuel tanks and confirm they are full.
• I fly various tasks around Basrah, sometimes with Smoke carrying out the task in hand and it all appears to work fine.
• However, having spent 40 mins or so circling Basrah I check my fuel state and find I have not used one pound of fuel, my F18 remains full? I tried dumping fuel but it makes no difference to the fuel state.

I hope this provides sufficient information to assist with a fix.

 

Regards

BK.

 

[Sandman1330]

On 1/7/2025 at 10:00 AM, BunnyKeeper said:

Hi All,

Firstly a shout out to Baltic Dragon who do a great job bringing Campaigns such as Raven One to us "armchair" pilots.

I've been working through the missions and currently trying to complete Mission 3, however there appears to some issues:-

Issue 1 - Starting the mission from the Carrier and navigating to the refuelling tanker:-

• Smoke gets first go at refuelling and once complete the drogue retracts into the tanker pod.
• I give the ready pre contact message and the tanker clears me to contact but the drogue remains in the refuelling pod?
• If I abort the refuelling and go through the process again it works fine.

issue 2 - Moving on from the refuelling, once i arrive at Basrah:-

• I instruct Smoke to do the show of force, once done he wonders off. There is no further comms from the guys on the ground?
• If I carryout the show of force the mission moves on ok. I haven't completed the mission beyond the moving target leaving Basrah.

Issue 3 - From the carrier but skipping the first part of the mission I morph on the right of the tanker:

• I check my fuel tanks and confirm they are full.
• I fly various tasks around Basrah, sometimes with Smoke carrying out the task in hand and it all appears to work fine.
• However, having spent 40 mins or so circling Basrah I check my fuel state and find I have not used one pound of fuel, my F18 remains full? I tried dumping fuel but it makes no difference to the fuel state.

I hope this provides sufficient information to assist with a fix.

 

Regards

BK.

 

Just flew Mission 3 a couple of times, so maybe I can help:

Issue 1 - I think you need to refuel on the right hand hose. As soon as Smoke hooked up on the left side, I went through the comms and tanked off the right hand hose no issues.

Issue 2 - You're the flight lead, hog all the action for yourself  But seriously, there is an issue where Smoke will bugger off to the tanker. I strafed the truck, but *only* damaged it 57% before going winchester so it kept driving. Tried to order Smoke to attack but he was gone to the tanker. This is why I flew it twice

Issue 3 - Can't help, didn't use the skip.

[baltic_dragon]

We still have some work to do on this one, thanks for all the feedback!