Helicopters run out of fuel and crash

[nudn1k]

Very rarely, Helicopters (Seahawks?)on ASW Missions, based on carriers run out of fuel and crash. For no obvious reason, they refuse to land.
So far i was able to recover them by loading an autosave. It seems that if the heli is not yet in chicken fuel state it will land without problem. If already in chicken state, unassign and RTB'ing manually may help.

Current version is: 1.03 1147.30 /DB488 but happened in earlier versions.

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[Kushan04]

As stated, please post a save.

[DWReese]

I had a similar issue a while back. It was over a year ago.

In my situation, the helos (Ospreys) were returning home, and they had enough fuel to have made it, but the program was set to refuel when the fuel reached a certain level. So, the AI sent them to refuel, prior to heading home. I saw that, and I obviously didn't want them to use up the tanker's fuel, to I told them to RTB instead. They aborted the refuel, and headed to the Amphib, and still had plenty of fuel, but refused to land. They flew around until they crashed into the sea.

Was there an aborted refuel situation in yours? If so, it may be connected.

Or, the refuel had noting to do with it, and there is some other issue going on. Perhaps there was an aborted path issue, or maybe something else. I'm only mentioning it in an effort to try to help you discern what happened to your helos.

Doug

[nudn1k]

As i wrote a save and reload fixes the problem, but for what it's worth, here is the save.
Look at Griffin #4 near the Lincoln. It will land without an issue. The only thing you might notice is that it was probably circling above the Lincoln.

@DWReese: No, not a refueling issue because a) Seahawks can't refuel from anyone and b) the Mission is set to refueling not allowed.
And it happend in the middle of the pacific, so no path issue. Thanks for pointing this out.


The only thing I could think of was to request for a warning when an aircraft reaches chicken fuel.

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