AI Taxi woes

[TP_Fritz]

I'm working on a mission that involves an AI flight leader that the player has to follow... starting up and taxiing to the runway to take off, and then landing and - hopefully - taxiing off the runway to a spot and then turning off the engine.  I have the appropriate taxi waypoints set for the takeoff, and that works fine - the AI flight leader starts the plane, taxis down the taxiway, and then takes off and follows the waypoints enroute... but I'm having real trouble with the landing portion.

 

I don't know if this is because the landing airfield is different than the takeoff airfield or what.

 

When the AI flight leader actually lands at the second airfield, it will then begin to taxi toward the distant original airfield, trundling over the terrain until it finally damages the aircraft.  It looks as if the taxi waypoints on the takeoff field are the only ones the AI aircraft acknowledges.

 

Is there something I need to do to somehow force the AI to accept the landing field's taxi waypoints?

Edited October 31, 2020 by TP_Fritz

[JimTM]

Make sure that the country for the destination airfield is set to the same coalition as the departure airfield. If that's not the problem then please post your mission so that others can have a look.

Edited October 31, 2020 by JimTM

[TP_Fritz]

Thanks JimTM... it was set to the same coalition (in this case German).  I decided to try deleting the Airfield MCU at the destination field and recreating it - that worked.

[IckyATLAS]

Nevertheless that is strange behaviour. If you have two airfields and the plane takes-off from one following taxi-points and then lands at the other airfield it will follow the taxi points at the new airfield. Planes move always to the nearest taxi-point. 

The airfield objects must have the same nationality as the plane, be correctly oriented according the runway and the right direction regarding the takeoff and landing directions. 

Not having tested all the airfields it could be that some airfields have problems-

 

 

 

 

[JimTM]

37 minutes ago, IckyATLAS said:

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The airfield objects must have the same nationality as the plane, be correctly oriented according the runway and the right direction regarding the takeoff and landing directions. 

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A couple of corrections:

• The airfield objects must have the country in the same coalition (Axis. Allies, etc.) as the plane.
• The airfield object taxi path must have the takeoff and landing points correctly oriented on the runway used for takeoff and landing. The object itself can point in any direction, as long as it has a taxi path.