AI formation flight of Lancasters to Peenemunde

[Golden Rocket]

Michael and I had the idea to create an AI formation flight to Peenemunde. Here what has been done so far:

- taking off of twelve AI Lancaster from Fiskerton (all at the same time)
- overflying Helgoland two hours later, the group is shown as one aircraft
- while following them with TVB, some time later the twelve slowly separate from each other and create a formation (here over Rostock)

- reaching separately the waypoint over Peenemunde, the aircraft lowers landing gear. That's not quite what we would like to see!

- It continues its flight and begins to do eternal circles over Baltic Sea, instead of flyingback to Fiskerton.

This is the actual situation. The waypoint created is the same as used with FSX "JYAI RAF Ford 1944 AI aircraft" package. Frankly speaking, not very truthfully neither, BTW.

So our question is, does anyone have any proposal, how to improve the project and get a suitable operation? Many thanks for any advices and suggestions.


Bernard

 

[Desert Rat]

FS9 doesn't do formation flights as you well know. You're way seems to be the best option, the other one is to set departure times 1 minute apart, but then they will all fly line abreast all the way.

I suspect the reason they do not return to Blighty is the same as lowering their gears. They are trying to land at Peenemunde (the fake waypoint airbase?), and upon failure go back to their ingress point to circle ad infinitum. That's what it looks like in your flightplan pic anyway. As for solving that, dunno. I remember some AI Tonka flights that took them down loch ness for practice runs, they lowered their gear too, can't remember if they RTB'd though.

 

[Golden Rocket]

Thanks for your evaluations. The gears lowering could be avoided with deleting the Peenemunde Afcad and just remaining the coordinate entry in aiport.txt file. But even then, neither the circling effect, nor the missing return flight would be solved.

Endless circling flights might at least be acceptable with airshows or for flypasts.

Bernard

 

[Motormouse]

The other thing is FS9 doesn't like flights to start and end at same location ( it only does that with touch and go flightplan)
Try departing or arriving from a different nearby airfield ; and you'll need enough parking spots at the airfield you use ( Scampton might fit)

Ttfn

Pete