M5 - can't send wingman to refuel

[Razor18]

As the title says, between WP 3 and 4 can't send wingman to tanker. How many miles behind the tanker should I be for the wingman to comply?

THX

[Nix Mills]

38 minutes ago, Razor18 said:

As the title says, between WP 3 and 4 can't send wingman to tanker. How many miles behind the tanker should I be for the wingman to comply?

THX

The sweet spot to avoid wingman AI bugs is a mile or two behind the tanker at a about same altitude and heading.

You need to use normal wingman commands on COMM 2 (F1 Flight or F2 Wingman --> F3 Go To --> F3 Fly to Tanker). Wingman then responds "2, Roger". If not, check that you calling on COMM 2, not COMM 1.

[Razor18]

Yes, but you need to tune your radio to the Element channel 1, and not use the channel what the script ordered for the wingman previously, in this case Channel 7 on PRI (guess it was Strike in this mission).

Edited Friday at 10:16 AM by Razor18

[Nix Mills]

43 minutes ago, Razor18 said:

Yes, but you need to tune your radio to the Element channel 1, and not use the channel what the script ordered for the wingman previously, in this case Channel 7 on PRI (guess it was Strike in this mission).

The channel switching is a bit tricky there because you had to monitor Israeli and Jordanian airspace controllers also.

If you switch AUX back to channel 1 (305AM), you can order wingman to tanker. To communicate with tanker (request rejoin), call Shell on channel 19 on PRI. When you're done refueling, switch back to channel 7 on PRI so that you can monitor Image and keep AUX on channel 1 so that you can communicate with wingman.