Catching Refuel Plane?

[Sceptre]

Hi everyone,

 

I was playing the default mission "Hideout" just then in SP (this is probably my fav mission) and after destroying all the targets I decided I wanted to refuel.

 

I found the tanker visually by following the contrails of the 2 F-15Cs escorting it since the TACAN channel is not listed in the briefing.

Anyway, I asked him for a refuel and I was cleared, so I just kept following this plane round and round not being able to catch him as he was flying over twice my speed.

 

What am I doing wrong? Oh.... I was at 25000 ft and carrying 3 GBU-38s and a few empty TERs. I did now drop these as I don't know how to selective jettison and dumping JDAMs would be...... a huge waste. Anyway I don't know if that info is important.

 

Sorry if this thread is a waste of space guys, I was just curious:)

 

Thanks!

 

EDIT: I am using DCS: World if this is something to do with it.

Edited June 2, 2012 by Sceptre

[Tailgate]

Are you sure you weren't following the AWACs? Sounds like it due to altitude and the escorts, but not sure if something was switched out in DCS_World.

[Sceptre]

Good Point.

 

I am pretty sure I wasn't following AWACS, I zoomed in a lot and I couldn't see its RADAR dome on top.

 

Maybe its a bug in DCSW I will have to check.

 

Is there a way to make the tanker slow down like in real life?

 

Not sure if this is relevant, but here are some R/L A-10 refueling videos:

 

 

 

Just for fun;)

Edited June 3, 2012 by Sceptre

[WarthogSmurf]

Did you checked on external which speed it had ?

 

other then that a good interception of a tanker makes up a lot of time. When i go chasign a tanker with 6 mk-82 and 2 mk-84 and some more I tend to crawl behind it. if my interception is way off it take like 30 min to get on the boom

[Leto]

Tested it, too. Quite impossible to rendezvous with the tanker. TAS=403kt @25k ASL.

 

Just open the mission editor and edit speed of the tanker more to your likes.

[CoachA10]

It's almost impossible to refuel above 22,000ft, especially if you have any external stores. The tanker is supposed to be at 200-210KIAS for A-10 refueling. At 25,000ft, that equates to 250-260KTAS, which is pretty fast for a loaded Hog at altitude. You have to use lead pursuit to rejoin on a tanker, otherwise you'll take too long to catch up at any altitude.

[WildBillKelsoe]

Is there a way to make the tanker slow down like in real life?

 

1. Ask him politely

2. go forward of him and use airbrakes

3. shoot one of his engines, but risk a bunch of angry generals and CoS's awaiting you back at base with a BDSM kit. :lol:

In which case you have two options,

 

1.A. Flip over uncle sam's AAF, and land at a russian hostile airbase

1.B. Use the on-board pistol, and make it quick and painless

1.C. Steal a cadaver from the morgue, have it smuggled on board, pull out all your teeth with a forcep, place them inside the cadaver's jaws, after extracting his own teeth, then stage a fake crash into the sea.

 

I would say, on a more serious note, to just buy a 'pretty accurate' HOTAS and rudder, practice, and you should be doing it second nature in no time.

[Sceptre]

1. Ask him politely

2. go forward of him and use airbrakes

3. shoot one of his engines, but risk a bunch of angry generals and CoS's awaiting you back at base with a BDSM kit. :lol:

In which case you have two options,

 

1.A. Flip over uncle sam's AAF, and land at a russian hostile airbase

1.B. Use the on-board pistol, and make it quick and painless

1.C. Steal a cadaver from the morgue, have it smuggled on board, pull out all your teeth with a forcep, place them inside the cadaver's jaws, after extracting his own teeth, then stage a fake crash into the sea.

 

I would say, on a more serious note, to just buy a 'pretty accurate' HOTAS and rudder, practice, and you should be doing it second nature in no time.

 

 

LOL:megalol: :lol:

 

Originally posted by Leto:

Tested it, too. Quite impossible to rendezvous with the tanker. TAS=403kt @25k ASL.

 

Just open the mission editor and edit speed of the tanker more to your likes.

 

Thanks for testing that. Next time I do the mission, I will edit.