After I aerial refuel, my wingman and 2 element dont?

[JujuMan]

Hi again,

 

On a rather long mission my 4 ship had to refuel from the tanker to get back to Homeplate.

No problem for me,but the rest of the flight just stayed in formation off the tanker and did not attempt to refuel at all.

 

What gives?

[guitarwiz1]

You have to call the tanker and "abort rejoin" for your self before giving your wing man commands to move in.

[JujuMan]

Ah..., ok. Will give that a shot. Thanks for the reply.

[JujuMan]

Still having major problems with getting my flight to refuel from the Tanker.

 

Tried the above advice, no joy. Issue the "Get to the Tanker" command, answer..."Unable"?

 

My other AI related problem from an earlier thread is that they (Flight) will not turn their Nav lights off even though I have all mine to the off postion. Still unresolved for a fix.

 

Im starting to think along the dreaded path of doing the "Dance...."

 

Unless of course somebody knows whats going on here and can put me back on the path of enlightenment?

 

1.2.2.7204 version, DCS World

Edited November 13, 2012 by JujuMan

[PFunk1606688187]

I've noticed that Tanker rejoin behavior has changed markedly in this patch.

 

I've noticed that upon requesting Rejoin the tanker immediately now turns on its lights and deploys the boom, though you still need to call Ready Precontact and the boom will not try and fly into your receptacle.

 

I've also noticed that with orbiting Tankers they deviate from their flight path and run a less sharp bank angle when you get in behind them, and then and I mean literally the moment you either cancel rejoin or get transfer complete message he veers sharply off and returns to his normal orbit.

 

Lastly, when you complete fueling by filling tanks completely the tanker automatically cancels the rejoin and pulls his boom back. Its solved probably the issue of people completing rejoin without saying cancel and therefore locking the tanker from other use.

 

This clearly should have some effect on wingmen. I don't think I like the new rejoin behavior though as it has a much a very jumpy nature to it. No easing off the Tanker when its in orbit at least and pulling up on its wing. It has a much more scripted feeling to it and kind of saps some of the suspension of disbelief. Also... haven't tried it with wingmen yet but I wonder if it'll veer off and make us form up again on him every time someone has to refuel.... None of this seems to have affected Tankers on straight line waypoint courses, except for the Precontact changes.

Edited November 13, 2012 by P*Funk

[JujuMan]

Yeah, its getting to be a PITA on a long haul mission, everybody else seems to be having no problems with their own flight taking fuel and having them copy their own Nav light selectioin, but my AI guys have their Formation Lights and Anti Collision lights on 24/7 and refuse point blank to re-fuel en-route after I do it.

 

mmmm, Whats the Un-install, Re-Install procedure, files to keep/backup etc.

 

I'm getting depressed just typing about it. lol.

Edited November 14, 2012 by JujuMan

[Spirit X]

I know this is a couple of months old now but I'm having this issue too and wondered if anyone knows if there's a solution?

 

Just flew a mission where my wingman refused to refuel regardless of whether I had the tanker on 'Intend to refuel', 'pre-contact' or aborted. Wingman just responds with 'unable' when I tell him to get the tanker.

 

In the end he ran out of fuel and ejected :doh:

[Lange_666]

...and the boom will not try and fly into your receptacle.

 

Did it ever before?

I've done my time with aerial refueling (A-10C stand alone and World) and never saw the boom fly. It just hung there on approach and when i got close enough it moved up a bit and from then on it was always me who did the flying into the boom. Boom operators are lazy dudes...