• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

intercept mission help

J

jetwelder

Resource contributor
Messages
329
Country
unitedkingdom
I want to reproduce from the book lightning from the cockpit, by Peter Caygill.

a commonplace intercept of Russian tupolev bears by a lightning fmk6.

still being carried out to this day, with the toy Eurofighter. all I need is a way of setting up the bear to fly a circular track at a set height, and speed.

can this be done , I have looked at the ai traffic tool, but its complex and seems to require, parking spots.

departure times, and all sorts of stuff I don't need. I have seen this done with ships that seem to follow a constant circular route, without atc, taxiways, etc, etc. any thoughts on this. Thanks.

just installed fsx me, it may do what I want.
 
Last edited:
You are in the Missions forum so I assume you are doing this intercept as a mission, not as a permanent AI aircraft.

Adding a circling aircraft is fairly straight forward. Add the appropriate aircraft (in this case a TU-95) as an AI aircraft. Place it near, leading for your first waypoint at the desired altitude. Add a waypoint list to it and then add the waypoints where you want them. Set up the waypoint list so that t wraps around - i.e when it hits the last way point it will go to the first waypoint. BTW, the TU-95 will show up on your interceptor's air-to-air radar.

A couple of points:
1) Aircraft not designed to be / also be AI aircraft can sometimes act strangely as AI aircraft. This normally appears on landing. However, If this happens airborne, I would duplicate the TU-95's folder in ..\simobjects\airplanes, and then substitute the default aircraft.cfg and air fees from the default FSX B747…its close enough.
2) You may have to fiddle with the distance you allow an aircraft to "miss" a waypoint and still have it "count" as hitting it. Problematic when you have an airplane circling and then landing (accurate landings can require misses of 50 m or less). But since you just have them circling, a miss distance of 200m or so should work. You will know right away if you miss distance is too short as the airplane will miss the waypoint and then circle continuously trying to reach it again…it never does.
3) Using this method and a timer trigger, you can add a second (or more) aircraft on the same track. Set the second aircraft to not active. Attach the same Waypoint list. Have the timer give it a 30 sec or so separation from the first and then trip an activation node action to make the second TU-95 active, appear and start flying.

Yes, FS ME will work quite nicely.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top