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Please have a look and try the following in Air Ops tutorial:
Assign a tanker to a support mission and send him to the waypoint.
Have a fighter meet him there and let the fighter "refuel".
Interrupt the refueling by unassigning the fighter and send it on its way.
Tanker still shows "refueling in progress" or sth similar and I believe is still losing fuel at refueling rate, not only for its own use.

I was trying to reproduce - and also see if same thing happens when refuelling process is ended automatically - but for some reasons I am no longer able to assign fighters to get refueled. Status reads "Manoeuvring to refuel point" and after a while changes to "Unassigned (Refuelling)". It never liaises with the tanker. Any prerequisites before starting a refuel (apart from the tanker being on station and being assigned to a support mission)?

M

Thanks for reporting this one Martin, have added it to our list of things to look at.

Would be fantastic if you could provide us with a savegame just prior to this happening, with instructions how to reproduce.

Thanks! [8D]

Rag,
savefile from shortly before is here http://www.wikiupload.com/LFQN840KS4WW078.

After loading do this:

- Right-click NE-104 to „Refuel“, status changes to "HeadingToRefuelPoint(ManouveringToRefuel)", shortly after status is "Refueling"

- During refuel process Tanker NE-513 status is „On support mission (Offloading fuel)“
- Select NE-104 and „Unassign“
- NE-104 status now „Unassigned (Refuelling)“
- F3 to steer NE-104 away from tanker
Look at tanker NE-513 after NE-104 broke off:
- Status is "On support mission (offloading fuel)" with fuel rapidly decreasing
- Click „Unassign“ (just to be sure): no change
- Re-assign to mission „Tanker 1“, Status: „On support mission (offloading fuel)“

Try to reassign fighter to refuel:

- Right click NE-104 to "Refuel", status „Heading to Refuel Point(Manouvering ToRefuel)“

- Shortly after status changes to „Unassigned (Manouvering ToRefuel)“ - no liaising with the tanker.

Repeat – same result.

I was trying to get the 2 back together, deleted the "Tanker 1"-mission, rebuilt it, reassigned tanker, all to no avail.
What finally worked was: RTB the tanker, this changed his status away from "Offloading fuel". Then I reassigned it to the tanker mission and tanker behaved as expected. After all this I was able to successfully re-assign the fighter to connect with the tanker and continue refueling.
Seems the tanker got stuck in an offloading fuel loop, making it unavailable for airplanes to connect.

Hope this helps, else let me know if any questions.

Bests,

M

bump

"bump" as in "please see if this is fixed with 446?" or?

Here is a 446 savefile. Result from my first entry starting this thread can be reproduced, so appears not to work as planned.

Thanks! Fixed in Build 465.