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Re: My IFR Experiment

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looks like i'll have to be careful with planes, maybe making the lead plane go on the slowest possible, with the rest on normal, and definately not have it on fastest, I have learnt that much at least from this experiment.

I used a 2 tankers and a blackbird to do a long range recon of a french island just off the coast madagascar. This island is 12000km away from my nearest base, the Falklands, but I devised a clever system. The Tankers flew to south african coast. I left them to loiter there, I sent the blackbird the extra 2000km to do recon and then fly back, lets just say, all planes returned to base, and my super carriers went in with troops (this is when I found out about speed/effieceny things). Its a shame that i cannot buy a decent carrier borne tanker, or it would make the range of planes unlimited. I will look sometime at the USA research for it.
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Re: My IFR Experiment

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I just have used it in CAP. My tankers take no damage, and they have plenty of fuel to do the mission, but, as soon as the escorting aircraft attack any other aircraft, they sap all of the fuel out of the tanker and so the tanker crashes, this is despite it being able to do the same mission but without attacking with over 2 thirds of a tank left, is this a bug or a glitch or something?

I have the fighters escorting the tanker, if i did it the other way around with the tanker escorting the fighters, would it stop the tanker from running out of fuel and then crashing?

I can experiment if you want but i lost 4 of my tankers in the proccess and only have 1 left. Also, sometime the planes take back off and circle, meaning they never land and so the tankers run out of fuel and crashed, this lost my other tanker.

I would of come to the conclusion that my b-52's were sapping the tanks, but they are not inflight refuel capable (I think).

I will wait to hear what you have to say before trying out anything else to see if you have any ideas as why this is happening as it has already cost me 5 sqdns.
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Re: My IFR Experiment

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SGTscuba wrote:... if i did it the other way around with the tanker escorting the fighters, would it stop the tanker from running out of fuel and then crashing?...
Unlikely, AFAIK we did not get the air tankers to understand when they were giving away a critical quantity of fuel. But thanks for the details, I will sit down and document all your notes at some point so that I can present them all to George for future improvements.
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Re: My IFR Experiment

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Good tankers i have seen are:

Vc-10 k3 (UK)
Ka-6d (US)(Long Deck)

It is also advised that you go for tankers WITHOUT cargo supplies. This will make them give it to the fighters, and also for soem reason make then go to zero fuel, which is never good!, I am currently working on a workaround (if any) to this problem so for now stick with the tankers above (tristar out of favour).
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