Pribs86 Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago (edited) I'll do the best I can to describe this since I don't have any screenshots, video or data. I can only speak for the center tank because that's all I've used. In the F/A-18C, you can take off, burn the center drop tank, land with it still attached, rearm and refuel and it will put a full, fresh, tank on the A/C so you have full fuel when you take off again. If you do this exact same procedure in the F-16C you will NOT get a fresh center tank it will be empty. You either have to remove the tank in the rearm and refuel menu then add it again in the rearm and refuel menu (so you have to rearm and refuel twice every time) -OR- you MUST jettison the tank in flight. It will NOT give you a fresh, full, tank when you rearm and refuel with it attached from the previous flight even though the rearm and refuel page shows a center fuel tank attached. It will be empty. I have tested this many times and it's like clock work. 100% every single time. Like I said I have not tested this with the wing tanks though. Thanks! Edited 4 hours ago by Pribs86
Solution Tholozor Posted 3 hours ago Solution Posted 3 hours ago Try opening the AAR door, this will depressurize the external tanks. 1 2 REAPER 51 | Tholozor VFA-136 (c.2007): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3305981/ Arleigh Burke Destroyer Pack (2020): https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3313752/
Pribs86 Posted 3 hours ago Author Posted 3 hours ago 18 minutes ago, Tholozor said: Try opening the AAR door, this will depressurize the external tanks. Well what the heck. I guess it wasn't a bug. I looked all over in the manual but this is all I found on page 65, I guess I never added 2 and 2 together as it wasn't mentioned in the rearm and refueling page specifically. Thanks a lot man, I appreciate you! NOT A BUG. Operator error! 1
RogueSpecterGaming Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 1 hour ago, Pribs86 said: I'll do the best I can to describe this since I don't have any screenshots, video or data. I can only speak for the center tank because that's all I've used. In the F/A-18C, you can take off, burn the center drop tank, land with it still attached, rearm and refuel and it will put a full, fresh, tank on the A/C so you have full fuel when you take off again. If you do this exact same procedure in the F-16C you will NOT get a fresh center tank it will be empty. You either have to remove the tank in the rearm and refuel menu then add it again in the rearm and refuel menu (so you have to rearm and refuel twice every time) -OR- you MUST jettison the tank in flight. It will NOT give you a fresh, full, tank when you rearm and refuel with it attached from the previous flight even though the rearm and refuel page shows a center fuel tank attached. It will be empty. I have tested this many times and it's like clock work. 100% every single time. Like I said I have not tested this with the wing tanks though. Thanks! Do note, that when using wing tanks you need to be under 4000lbs of fuel to refuel those. Best practice is to land with 1200 to 1800lbs of fuel to ensure they refuel all the way. 1 1 My PC: GPU-AMD 6800XT OC / CPU- AMD RYZEN 5800X OC / 32 GB RAM 3200Mhz / 1TB SSD / 2TB HDD / 500GB M.2 / Monitor: 34" Ultrawide Samsung 1000R Curve / WinWing F16EX HOTAS / TM Cougar MFDs / TM TPR Rudder Pedals / TrackIR5 / ICP
skywalker22 Posted 21 minutes ago Posted 21 minutes ago 2 hours ago, RogueSpecterGaming said: Do note, that when using wing tanks you need to be under 4000lbs of fuel to refuel those. Best practice is to land with 1200 to 1800lbs of fuel to ensure they refuel all the way. If I recall, the min left fuel in tank in 1400 lbs to be able to refuel to max possible (quantity depends on number of external tanks). If you have lets say 1500 lbs left, you will be missing 100 lbs of fuel after refueling.
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