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[Seppel]

Hi to all you Jet aces!

I have a technical question:

I do not use the JTW module, as it is not interesting for me. Nevertheless I am creating the Cold War version of my Baltic Sea map (https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,43642.228.html)
at the moment.
While testing the airfields for functionality for AI planes, I witnessed a strange behavior of some AI planes - they refuses to land!?
In my experience a runway can be too short for a special type of plane, taxiway connections can be wrong or parking positions might be too close to objects, but in each case, the AI would touch down and follow the runaway path along until there is some error or problem ... or even crash after leaving the (too short) runway on the opposite side.

But I never saw AI that is going into approach and then cancels and go for another try and another ...

Is this a known problem? Does it depend on special planes? Did I -as a JTW newbie- do somethign wrong?

[Vampire_pilot]

I see....



... so much missing information

[Seppel]

Uhm ... guilty!

But what is that response supposed to mean?

[Vampire_pilot]

you give too little information for any other answer.


you could, like, share the mission? Or the airplane? or any other detail like... Is it with any airplane? Or Just a specific type? Does it behave as such always or just on a specific airfield... you know, literally any kind of detail...

[Seppel]

I know what you are heading for.

I just want to know, if there is a special ... feature or setting in game that may cause this effect.
To me the problem is not that relevant as I fo not use JTW.
It was only for testing the new airfields.

[Vampire_pilot]

No, there's of course no feature that prevents AI from landing. JTW is not that special. It just has a lot of jets in it.

[Dimlee]

In my JTW experience, it happened with multi-engine aircraft. Change of the waypoints and making the descent less steeper resolved the problem - but not for all. At least one time I couldn't make a Tu-16 to land until the mission ended (about 50-60 min). In other cases, it took several approaches for the large aircraft to find the proper way to land.

[Seppel]

Thanks for that, Dimlee!!

I witnessed that with exactly this plane.
I am not quite sure, if there were others (C130 Tanker?) in my tests. At the same time, the muuuuch larger B52 landed properly.
Anyway, so it IS a known phenomenom - at least by some guys - and has nothing to do with map making.