DCS Mission Editor | How to set up a quick Air to Air Refuelling Training Mission 

As they say in the classics: "Give a man a mish, he can play for a day. Teach a man to mish, he can play for a lifetime."

That was exactly what I was looking for. Very clearly explained. thank you!

Very helpful indeed. Not only in allowing me to set up refuelling missions, but (being a newbie) it also helped a lot in just getting to know how to use the mission editor.

Thanks Mav, yours was the first tutorial to come up when I searched for this. See ya in the skies buddy

Excellent tutorial. I’ve looked at several tanker mission and so this is the first that explained how to set up the orbit. I wish you could just set tanker airspeed instead of having to work numbers off ground speed.

Most useful thing I've seen this year! Many thanks.

Thx. I finally know how to set up a proper tanker mission!

Thanks, very clearly explained. I plan to use the same idea initially to set up a sitting duck target for missile and gun practice before getting into dogfights.

Much appreciated, I hadn’t realised about the orbit command. That was good to know.

I like that intro with Harrier shutdown..:-) And of course the whole video.

Excellent tutorial, and just what I was searching for, many thanks. Subscribed.

Great stuff, love the arrows and descriptors.

Thank you!!! Can't believe it's taken this long to get a proper tanker setup video. The forums go off on tangents with people debating the proper speed setup and how orbiting works. I thought you had to setup waypoints in a pattern or just let the tanker fly straight out to infinity. Someone should really explain speed conversions ias, gs, etc., to better understand how to assign correct speed for air assets when setting up a mission.

Thankyou for this i just needed to set up a little mission, and some of the RU-vid videos were like an hour long! Thanks

M M M M Many thanks for setting up this mission!! It allowed me to finally connect to the tanker and drink up.

Mav, just a couple of pointers. 1. Don't tick the GS box, you don't want your tanker to vary its Indicated Airspeed (IAS) when turning downwind or into wind. It should fly a constant IAS. e.g. With a 40 kts wind at 18k it would vary its speed between 180 to 260 kts IAS during the tanker race track. 2. 300 kts in the ME at 18k ft is 220kts IAS and may well be a tad slow to refuel heavily laden jets however the KC130's drogue is limited to 250kts IAS max. 240 would be better. For example, KC135 typically refuels laden F18s at 280kts IAS. Druid_

Hi MAV. Great instructional video's. I have learned a ton from you. On the topic of refueling. Is there a way to have say the S-3 ( I think its an S-3 ) take off from the Stennis and then just Orbit around the moving Stennis? No point in having WP's if all I want is for the S-3 to stay within say 10 N Miles from the ship with a shallow bank to refuel those of us who take a while to actually land lol. Thanks in advance. Dave

I'm trying this out and after I select the KC-135 and set the skill, etc....the lower menu remains greyed out....I can't set waypoints, alt, etc

I so everything exactly as described but tanker doesn't show in any radio meanie. What's up with that?

I know this is slightly off topic, but can someone explain why the AI aircraft I create often end up diving and crashing into the ground? Some background: I've created a dogfight scenario of F-15s and Su-27s, and when they fight, it seems atleast half just fly into the ground. I understand this can happen sometimes while trying to evade a missile, but it seems to be happening too often! They will even do this when there isn't a missile inbound. Thanks

I love your vids already cause you sound like Gerard butler

Very helpful, thanks!

Quick question; when i do this the drogue on the 135mprs is always extended. How do i get it so he only extends when asked for fuel? (like in aerobatics online servers etc) Silly little thing but part of the fun is watching it extend on asking before connecting up. Thanks for the video :)

I made mission since few month, and, I just understand how orbits works... I never get that... Thanks man !!!!

Thank you for this, always wanted to create a "Refueling " mission, only one problem, I don't see the option to radio the tanker to join, can you help with this please. I do have simple radio enabled...

Excellent, thanks mate

My tankers TACAN shows up as 1X "TKR" regardless of what I set it at.

Wait how do you set up a TACAN freq for the tanker?

Is there a specific way to join 104th or just hop in the teamspeak and dcs server. Also is there an age limit

Thanks for this!

Perhaps you can help...your video was great and my squad likes learning how to aerial refuel. However, despite setting the speed to 400 knots (we understand DCS uses ground speed), it continues to use 300. For F-15's, 210 kts is pretty tough to refuel with! Help! :)

Thanks for sharing!

4:52 Is it possible to make the tanker have unlimited fuel or is it some random scripting required?

Thank you

i cant talk to the tankert on the radio what did i do wrong? I've reviewed everything I'm missing something.

Thanks Captain.

Yeah i tried this and must of done something wrong. Everytime I changed to the tanker frequency and requested refuel it never replied

thanks

Anyone know how to change maps once you open mission editor???

Thanks! is it possible to get AI aircraft to refuel themselves?

The 6562 feet is 2000M. Still a bit random but at least it's a round number. :)

Great instructions but your method of explaining was rapid. I had to replay the video to catch up. Helpful anyways