Recon plane time related area circling possible?

[jollyjack]

Hi, is there a MCU and waypoint trick to make a recon plane circle for say 5 minutes around over an zone, without having to program tons of waypoints?

 

After that fly away: do you need some trigger to a counter for that?

[SYN_Vander]

Pretty easy. Use the AttackArea MCU but do not tick any of the target boxes. The plane will simple circle until some trigger (in your case a timer) will tell it to do something else. Alternatively you can use a normal waypoint without a link to a next waypoint, but I think the circles will be much wider.

[IckyATLAS]

On 1/23/2021 at 12:13 PM, SYN_Vander said:

Pretty easy. Use the AttackArea MCU but do not tick any of the target boxes. The plane will simple circle until some trigger (in your case a timer) will tell it to do something else. Alternatively you can use a normal waypoint without a link to a next waypoint, but I think the circles will be much wider.

If you use the AttackArea then also check the priority parameter. 

High : the plane will circle and will do nothing else. If it is attacked it will do nothing.

Medium : It will defend itself if attacked.

Low : in this configuration no idea what he will do. Maybe he flies away if he sees another plane ? 

[SYN_Vander]

1 hour ago, IckyATLAS said:

If you use the AttackArea then also check the priority parameter. 

High : the plane will circle and will do nothing else. If it is attacked it will do nothing.

Medium : It will defend itself if attacked.

Low : in this configuration no idea what he will do. Maybe he flies away if he sees another plane ? 

 

Good point.

 

When set to "Low" a fighter will stop circling and attack enemy planes if he sees them. Not quite sure what a bomber will do.