Aerobatics…Loop

[pierscockey]

After watching the Thunderbirds doc on Netflix, I couldn’t help but setup some AI manoeuvres in F16s that I could follow along with.  
 

For some reason, a simple loop cannot be performed by the AI.  At the 9 o’clock (inverted) position, the AI will roll over and perform a negative G dive, then go off in another direction.

(BTW, the initial pull up by the AI is quite crazy (c9G), and near impossible to keep up with)

Tried it at different speeds, altitudes etc.  with same results.  

Not got a track file yet, as half expecting others to say this is a known issue.  If not, I’ll go sort one!

 

Edited May 30 by pierscockey

[silverdevil]

1 hour ago, pierscockey said:

After watching the Thunderbirds doc on Netflix, I couldn’t help but setup some AI manoeuvres in F16s that I could follow along with.  
 

For some reason, a simple loop cannot be performed by the AI.  At the 9 o’clock (inverted) position, the AI will roll over and perform a negative G dive, then go off in another direction.

(BTW, the initial pull up by the AI is quite crazy (c9G), and near impossible to keep up with)

Tried it at different speeds, altitudes etc.  with same results.  

Not got a track file yet, as half expecting others to say this is a known issue.  If not, I’ll go sort one!

 

hello. if you can, share the mission. that may help.

[pierscockey]

Good thinking.  Attached a couple of tacview files too.  One with 1 loop, the other with 2.  It almost is doing a reverse split S when more than 1 loop is programmed.  For the miz file - I later added a load of AI to practise using the radar, but the F16 is still there doing its thing.

PS - Ignore the name skewed loop for the AI jet.  The mission is taken from one found in user files which I modified. 

Tacview-20250529-134900-DCS.zip.acmi Tacview-20250529-135912-DCS.zip.acmi Aerobatics Test All w-variants2.miz