Hot to get the Tanker to orbit ?

[felafe]

Hey at all ,

 

at first i really love this sim and now I tried to builde a mission with refuelling .

But the Problem is , if the Tanker joins (at 1830) , he will not do the Orbit and just lands at the assigend airport.

 

I want the tanker to stay for let´s say 3 hours to do a really long mission .

 

I attached the missionfile and maybe u guy´s can help me out.

 

Best regards

 

Felix from Spangdahlem Germany

Test.miz

[Royale]

OK, I removed the start condition for the orbit and the "Start Enroute Task - Tanker" (not needed) and changed the stop condition to "Duration" - 3 hours. Should work fine now.

Test_fixed.miz

[felafe]

Hey ,

 

thank you for the edit.

now the tanker fly´s the orbit but after 40 some time I intend

to refuel , he is about 150 nm away so no chance for me to reach him .

How to get the tanker to stay in a 20 nm orbit or something ?

 

I attached my new mission file .

 

Regards

Felix

test 2.miz

[nomdeplume]

The tanker will orbit between those two waypoints until the specified time. I think you're probably encountering this bug if the AI aircraft refuel from it. You can confirm by checking the tanker's external view (F7) to see if it's got the boom down and nav lights on.

 

No workarounds that I know of. Possibly setting the 'RTB on bingo' option to false for all the AI flights might work. Otherwise, just wait and hope it's fixed in the next patch.