reported JU 88's continue to fly indefinitely after crew bails out

[Rolds]

I will add a link to a video once it uploads. In this case 5 Ju-88's were hit during a mission and the crews bailed out. After that the abandoned planes do not loose either speed or altitude and continued to circle indefinitely. Tacview file also attached. 

Tacview-20250628-110307-DCS.zip.acmi

[Rolds]

 

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

if possible we need a track replay 

Please ensure you do not have any unofficial mods and run a slow repair

thank you 

[Nascar]

I have a multiplayer track file with the same thing, but it's 57MB. It isn't just the JU-88, though. The Instant action mission Furball F4u Marianas WW2. I had multiple 109s in an infinite death spiral.

[Rolds]

Zombie Bombers I.trk

 

I was able to get one to occur this run. By the way, this is probably the same issue that was happening years ago, remember this? About the time the B17 was first introduced. It was fixed and probably the fix got reverted out somehow in a recent patch:

 

[Rolds]

This issue occurs more consistently when the bombers are shot down at higher altitude, as the orbits they take up vary in altitude and if they are lower it is possible they hit the ground. In this attempt you see both JU-88's become permanent gliders. The issue occurs with fighters as well but less consistently, I wasn't able to get one of the FW-190A8's to enter this condition in these trials, but it has occurred in other missions, and those tracks are too large to upload. 

 

 

Zombie Bombers II.trk

Edited July 9 by Rolds

[Rolds]

On 7/7/2025 at 6:32 PM, Nascar said:

I have a multiplayer track file with the same thing, but it's 57MB. It isn't just the JU-88, though. The Instant action mission Furball F4u Marianas WW2. I had multiple 109s in an infinite death spiral.

Here is a track from Marianas Furball, two of the FW190's went into the infinite loop on this occasion. 

Zombie Bombers III.trk

[Doughguy]

Happens on all AI planes

[Esac_mirmidon]

Not only infinite looping

They fly at 360 knots with dead engines

[Rolds]

@BIGNEWY do you have what you need on this? Any word on a fix? It is a pretty bad problem.

[vgilsoler]

Yesterday, in a multiplayer session with mates, we were able to see a Mosquito doing 360 degrees turns on the airbase ground like a drift expert. The Mosquito was plenty of bullet holes.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi all, 

sorry for not replying sooner, this is reported internally and on our list to fix. 

thank you 

[ChuckIV]

Screen_250810_122313.bmpScreen_250810_122313.bmpScreen_250810_122313.bmpDCS developers:

Currently, there are numerous WW2 aircraft that fly in endless circles when dead.  Bombers for sure, but I've seen Antons and other WW2 aircraft behave in the same manner.  Is anyone on this bug?  I'm hoping the next update fixes this problem.  Thanks for reading my post.

ChuckIV

 

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

 

[motoadve]

Pretty disappointing is not a priority for ED

[Rolds]

 

This was also reported in this locked thread. This problem was also in the game years ago and they fixed it, but have somehow unfixed it and left it unfixed for two months and counting now.

[BIGNEWY]

threads merged, a fix will be in the next update.