Simple Inflight refuelling mission

[SUBS17]

Here is a inflight refuelling mission pack I have made for DCS A-10C in both mission you start in the air behind the tanker. There is a single player mission and a 4 ship multiplayer mission. Tanker freq is 150Mhz.

 

procedure is:

 

Preparation

When nearing the tanker location, you will want to place the flight in Echelon formation.

1. Radio contact tanker and inform of intent for refueling.

2. At least one engine must be operating at 85% RPM.

3. Safe the aircraft from AHCP:

 Master Arm switch to SAFE

 GUN/PAC switch to SAFE

 LASER switch to SAFE

4. Safe aircraft from DSMS:

 Set Maverick EO power to OFF

5. Set up your Fuel System panel:

 If you have a leak in any of the four internal fuel tanks, you should pull out the Fill Disable button for that tank. This will prevent the damaged fuel tank from being filled.

 Tank Gate switch to the closed position.

6. Open the refueling receptacle slipway. Upon doing so, the READY light will illuminate.

7. Fly the formation to the pre-contact position:

 Wingman 2 takes observational position off flight lead wing (On Deck position).

 Second element takes observational position right of the On Deck position.

 Refueling order is FL  2  3  4

 

Pre-Contact

Upon reaching the pre-contact position 1 nm behind the tanker in trail, you need to stabilize your position and establish a zero rate of closure on the tanker:

1. Check you have sufficient fuel to complete process.

2. Set IFF to Standby (STBY)

3. Set CMSP to Standby (STBY)

4. If at night or foul weather, enable the exterior lights from the Exterior Lighting Dial.

5. If you cannot establish pre-contact, you must break away or risk an overrun.

6. Request contact from tanker.

7. If given permission, move forward and follow directions of the boom operator. Close to the tanker at 2-3 knots until reaching the contact position. Align the boom with the center longitudinal axis of the aircraft. Make constant reference between the boom and the tanker fuselage and avoid ―chasing‖ the boom.

 

Contact

1. Once established in the contact position, the boom operator will ―fly‖ the boom into the receptacle.

2. Once boom contact is made, confirm the LATCHED light on the canopy bow is illuminated. The READY light should extinguish.

 

3. Once both you and the tanker acknowledge contact, the refueling will start.

4. For successive contacts, you must cycle the aerial refuel system by pressing the refuel/reset button (Nosewheel Steering button) or closing and opening the slipway door.

Disconnect

1. When the tanks are full, line pressure will automatically disconnect refueling. When this happens, the DISCONNECT light will illuminate. To manually disconnect, you can also press the nosewheel steering button on the control stick.

2. Close the receptacle slipway door.

3. Decrease power and drop back and down behind the tanker.

4. Once you have pulled out of the contact position, you will establish yourself off the left wing of the tanker.

Following your departure from the contact position, number 2 will move into the contact position and number 3 will move into the On Deck position. This pattern will continue until all aircraft are refueled. As each aircraft is refueled, they will reform with you off the tanker’s left wing.

 

(From page 493 from the manual)

 

Download from here

 

http://files.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/273379/

Edited February 26, 2013 by SUBS17

[Stalintc]

Thank you! I have flown this mission and have now mastered A2A refuelling because of it. :)

[Slap_Chop]

I'm interested in your refueling mission I guess some jerks destroyed the web server for your file. Any chance you could create another link to download it from ?

 

Thanks and if not , never hurts to ask.

[SUBS17]

No problem dude I'll see what I can do.:thumbup:

[SUBS17]

Here ya go

 

https://rapidshare.com/files/2588370931/Refuelling_missions.zip

[Slap_Chop]

Thank You Brother. Much Appreciated. File downloaded ready to try it.

[blave]

thanks for putting this together and making it available. I really suck at A2ARF but your mission gives me an easy way to work at sucking less :).

 

cheers,

 

Dave B.

[SUBS17]

No problem dude.

[echonovember2]

Hate to dig up an old thread, but I downloaded this mission maybe 6 months ago and thought it was an excellent trainer for a-a refueling. I've lost the mission and the rapidshare link is now gone. Any chance we can get it put back up please?? Thanks!!

[XtraChrisP]

I'm impressed that Stalintc was able to master aar overnight. Must be a pretty good mission...

[SUBS17]

I'll see if I can put it on the ED missions download that way I wont have to keep using Rapidshare etc.

[echonovember2]

Sounds good. Hope to see it up soon!

[SUBS17]

I have just uploaded a new version so hopefully when its approved I'll post a link here. It has 2 missions 1 SP and 1 4 ship MP and they both start off with players directly behind(or near the tanker for the MP mission).:thumbup:

[SUBS17]

Heres a link for the missions guys.

 

http://files.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/273379/

[BadWeather]

Saw this mission and decided I'd have a crack at aerial refuelling again. Before I've just managed short contacts and those always got me exhausted. Just now I managed a complete refill. I feel so badass. Thanks for the mission

[Bahger]

Thanks for uploading this. I intend to use it as part of my effort to master AAR if it half-kills me.

[Seil]

I'm impressed that Stalintc was able to master aar overnight. Must be a pretty good mission...

 

Believe it or not, but the FIRST time you connect will be the hardest one ever. After you've done it just once, you can practically do it blind-folded, imho.

 

I don't doubt that he "mastered" easy refuels in one night. Now, try refueling in 20+mph crosswinds while the tanker flies a circle orbit a couple thousand feet above the mountain tops.

 

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EDIT:

 

1.2.3 has now included a mission editor setup guide for proper tanker support in the following local folder:

 

..\DCS World\Doc\Tester reference

 

Orbit works with En-Route Task Option

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-Seil

Edited February 26, 2013 by Seil

[Bahger]

Yeah, that first time, I was so astonished and thrilled after a zillion failures that of course I lost control and dropped the boom.

 

Fine throttle control is the biggest challenge for me. Alering stick settings has given me sufficient mastery of x and y stick inputs.

 

Deploying a little speedbrake might help with the throttle but for the time being I'm avoiding it, as I'm just getting used to the tiny, incremental throttle inputs required to go from 207 to 208kts..when 207 isn't fast enough, 208 is right and 209 will get you tangled up in the tanker.

[SUBS17]

For ease of learning the Tanker AI is set on excellent and the weather conditions are perfect for this mission pack. The whole idea is to get people successfully hooking up to the tanker before making them try with more challenging conditions.:thumbup: