Persistent problem. My aircraft has stopped seeing the external fuel tank.

[ASW]

At first I flew on No. 426, but then for some reason he stopped seeing the fuel tank. I switched to No. 383, it's "new" and it sees the tank. I may have heavily exploited No. 426, but how can I fix it? I tried using the F-8 radio menu in the DCS, but nothing worked.

I flew in multiplayer, but I created a regular offline mission to test. There is no fuel tank.

[Zabuzard]

Smells like an oversight in the code. Detecting ext-tanks in DCS is super finicky, thank you.

[ASW]

1 час назад, Zabuzard сказал:

Smells like an oversight in the code. Detecting ext-tanks in DCS is super finicky, thank you.

I haven't quite figured out the state-saving function of the aircraft. Does this function save wear or only the condition of the switches in the airplane? If the aircraft wears out, how can it be repaired?For example, it saves the Squawk Code, which I made for convenience. like the aircraft number 426. But it doesn't save 426. It saves 422. It's not essential, but I don't understand everything yet. I have "enabled" in the advanced settings and sometimes I do RCtrl+P.

[Zabuzard]

I dont fully follow your example.

The system saves the entire aircraft state, all its 3000+ properties. That doesnt just include wear/tear but also literal state. For example if you turned the laser on or the position of the lense inside the Pave Spike camera or whether a lamp is currently on or not etc.

Wear/Tear never reaches a state where something doesnt work anymore. That would be failures and those are decoupled from wear/tear and automatically repaired across missions. Your aircraft with maximum wear/tear will still work, it just will be a rough experience and performance of all components will deviate a lot from what they are expected to be (in both directions, underperform but also overperform). Details to the wear/tear system in the manual.

Edited 20 hours ago by Zabuzard

[ASW]

We don't understand each other because I'm writing through a translator. I'll ask a question with pictures. I flew in multiplayer this afternoon, but the files in the folder have yesterday's modification date when I flew offline. What am I doing wrong?

 

aircraft_loading_errors.txt

2025-10-28 12:33:39
File name: F-4E-USAF-CA69-382-HillTwo-163rdTFG_382.cache
Missing components: 0, properties: 0, damage states: 0
Aircraft loaded without issues.
 

persistent_ac.7z

Edited 15 hours ago by ASW

[Zabuzard]

Did you land and fully shutdown the aircraft? The state is only saved when you do that. It is not saved when you crash or exit the mission in-flight or with a hot aircraft.

[Yannick Pancake]

7 hours ago, Zabuzard said:

I dont fully follow your example.

The system saves the entire aircraft state, all its 3000+ properties. That doesnt just include wear/tear but also literal state. For example if you turned the laser on or the position of the lense inside the Pave Spike camera or whether a lamp is currently on or not etc.

Wear/Tear never reaches a state where something doesnt work anymore. That would be failures and those are decoupled from wear/tear and automatically repaired across missions. Your aircraft with maximum wear/tear will still work, it just will be a rough experience and performance of all components will deviate a lot from what they are expected to be (in both directions, underperform but also overperform). Details to the wear/tear system in the manual.

I think he asked, if there is some kind of "reset" of the Wear and Tear. If we have used a plane to 100% wear, is there a way to reset the wear, in the case I still want to use the same Skin+Tail Number, but want to "overhaul" the plane.

[Zabuzard]

I think he asked, if there is some kind of "reset" of the Wear and Tear. If we have used a plane to 100% wear, is there a way to reset the wear, in the case I still want to use the same Skin+Tail Number, but want to "overhaul" the plane.

No. Maybe copy ur file when it was still good, as backup.

What is the use case for that though? Like, what are you planning to gain from the persistence system if not the aircrafts current wear/tear?

You can also always just delete the file or even disable the persistence system and you are back to a fresh aircraft.

[Yannick Pancake]

I don't really know why you want to do this, it was just what I understood as one of the questions from "ASW". 

 

For me it works with "saving" the switch positions, so for his other question I have no clue.

 

[ASW]

5 часов назад, Zabuzard сказал:

fully shutdown the aircraft

That's exactly what I was trying to ask you with the help of a translator!)

I didn't see this in the documentation. I realized that I had to land and stop, but I didn't see that the plane had to be completely fully shutdown.

p.s

(Today I learned about the "Combat tree". I can't understand why such a wonderful thing is hardly discussed on the forum and on YouTube. I started shooting down fourth-generation Su-27 and Mig-29 aircraft armed with R-27R missiles on the F-4E. And most importantly, now I can see them and I can easily capture them with radar from the back seat.)