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    AWACS refueling "incident"

    This morning when I went for my daily AAR training I was kind of surprised seeing AWACS behind the tanker. I thought "That's nice Easter Egg" in this A-10 simulator
    As I was approaching the AAR Formation I noticed something was not right; AWACS was not connected to the boom and was just following the tanker. Again, one of the simulator bugs.
    Since I was short on fuel I decided to divert (RTB Senaki). I stayed on FL 180 in case I had to do "gliding" landing... fortunately I had sufficient fuel to land safely at home base. While taxiing to the staging area for refuelling the Dedicated Server.

    It seems the same problem I experienced yesterday while on line with Nu-NRG and Smurf. I was refuelling at Perseus and at the same moment Nu-NRG relocated the tanker to the Mercury. Relocation was acknowledged by the tanker but once I aborted the refuelling the boom stayed lowered and the tanker flew its Perseus track.

    Did you guys had similar problem during last light training mission?


    A few pictures of AAR "incident"

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    Well actually it seems it is a feature . AWACS have to refuel and well I googled and found this

    http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=83877

    none other from our own stuka =)
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    I think the bug came in the sim when they replaced the old AWACS model with the new one.
    Current model is shorter, and i guess they forgot to update the refueling position seen by the AI.

    Providing CAS when you're all out of HUA!

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    Yup....known issue but thanks for the reminder!

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