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Air to air refuelling
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Wed May 04, 2005 11:44 amby Alphajet_Enthusiast
This are some shots of me air-to-air refuelling with an AI Tanker I downloaded. Great fun. Oh yeah I used the aerialfoundry F-18 because of its nice refuelling probe.
Behind the tanker.
Moving into position.
Hope you like them. :)
Re: Air to air refuelling
Posted:
Wed May 04, 2005 12:14 pmby SaVas
great shots. Does it actually refuel your aircraft?
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Wed May 04, 2005 1:22 pmby Alphajet_Enthusiast
The tankers fly at 250kts, FL260. Try to intercept one in a point indicated below. Approach the tanker and touch the fuel pipe by the refueling mast. Then press the refuel switch. The refueling process is so short and unreal because it's actually impossible to make interact an AI aircraft with the user one in FS9. But to touch the fuel pipe is already a tough task. Try to stay as long as possible touching the pipe - this way you simulate a real-time refueling.
But its great fun none the less! ;)
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Wed May 04, 2005 3:34 pmby Yurei
very cool alpha! need to get one of those
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Wed May 04, 2005 5:45 pmby planespotter
nice, any shots of a close attempt?
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Thu May 05, 2005 12:09 amby Alphajet_Enthusiast
Does the last one not count!? ;) LOL I'll try some after but I assure you its far from easy. Why don't you try it yourself? Its the AI Tanker from Samdim design. COmes with their TU-126 AWACS package. :)
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Thu May 05, 2005 3:07 pmby Sobby
is that the Badger?
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Sat May 07, 2005 4:54 amby Alphajet_Enthusiast
No dont think so its some rare Russian aircraft... the name's just escaped me! >:(
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Sat May 07, 2005 10:02 amby || Andy ||
Myasishchev Mya-4 'Bison'
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Sat May 07, 2005 10:14 amby Alphajet_Enthusiast
Thats the one!! :D
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Sat May 07, 2005 1:07 pmby || Andy ||
lol,
could we have a link for the tanker Alpha?
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Sat May 07, 2005 1:54 pmby Alphajet_Enthusiast
Sure its available from avsim. This is the adress:
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=58381The filename is
install_tu126.zip just in case. :)
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Sat May 07, 2005 2:43 pmby || Andy ||
Thanks alot dude
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Sun May 08, 2005 2:10 amby Alphajet_Enthusiast
The hard part is the rendez-vous with the tanker. Its pretty hard to find. I found it on tuesday at Semipattilinks (or something like that) doing a touch and go, and then I followed it up. ;)
Re: Air to air refuelling
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Wed May 11, 2005 2:54 pmby chomp_rock
Neat!
You know, it makes it a whole lot easier to get the probe in the basket if you use altitude hold and IAS hold... That's what I do