Question about Flight Planner
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2026 3:02 pm
Good Day all.
I was wondering if there was a way to add a check-box, to the Mission Editor if you want to use or NOT to use the Flight Plan Editor.
The reason I ask, is because I am setting up scenarios for myself to improve my knowledge of the tools the Devs have given us in this game, specifically the Flight plan editor. So what I have done is created a CAP mission for my fighters, and as you need to use reference points to created a mission, I added 4 of them in this instance, and then checked the box for the flight to fly "random in the area" for the movement pattern.
Of course this was easy to do in years past before the Flight Plan editor was designed, the planes had no choice but to fly randomly, as long as you didn't tell them to use repeatable loop. But I have noticed that even if you tell them to fly random in the area, they still make use of the automatically generated flight plan, and thus, the pattern is no longer random.
Now, I am aware that what you can do for the side you control, is catch the flight before it takes off and delete the flight plan, so that now the aircraft don't have a flight plan to follow, and will then default to either continuous loop or random pattern depending on what is selected in the mission settings. If the option to disable flight plans was given when setting up missions, you don't have to do what I was just referring to.
I am NOT being critical of the Flight Plan editor, I LOVE IT and have always wanted to have this feature, even if I don't fully understand how it works fully, I am looking at various tutorials to help me learn.
Thank you all.
Scott
I was wondering if there was a way to add a check-box, to the Mission Editor if you want to use or NOT to use the Flight Plan Editor.
The reason I ask, is because I am setting up scenarios for myself to improve my knowledge of the tools the Devs have given us in this game, specifically the Flight plan editor. So what I have done is created a CAP mission for my fighters, and as you need to use reference points to created a mission, I added 4 of them in this instance, and then checked the box for the flight to fly "random in the area" for the movement pattern.
Of course this was easy to do in years past before the Flight Plan editor was designed, the planes had no choice but to fly randomly, as long as you didn't tell them to use repeatable loop. But I have noticed that even if you tell them to fly random in the area, they still make use of the automatically generated flight plan, and thus, the pattern is no longer random.
Now, I am aware that what you can do for the side you control, is catch the flight before it takes off and delete the flight plan, so that now the aircraft don't have a flight plan to follow, and will then default to either continuous loop or random pattern depending on what is selected in the mission settings. If the option to disable flight plans was given when setting up missions, you don't have to do what I was just referring to.
I am NOT being critical of the Flight Plan editor, I LOVE IT and have always wanted to have this feature, even if I don't fully understand how it works fully, I am looking at various tutorials to help me learn.
Thank you all.
Scott
