I found a useful tanker trick that I haven't seen posted here I'd like to share. It comes in handy for real long range missions that takes a couple of refuels to make. Attach a couple of tankers to a F-15, send them out for the long range mission. Make sure your game time is running in real-time (1 second game-time equals 1 second game-time) for the next step. Select the group after takeoff and split 1 tanker from the group. When you are prompted to set a course for the new group, select yes then cancel the next menu item. Now go into the join menu and join this tanker to the other 2 aircraft. Later on, when you refuel, only one tanker will refuel your unit. If you didn't do this, both tankers would refuel the F-15 and leave. The F-15 gets the same amount of fuel from 1 as from 2 in the tests I ran. When I split the tankers, the range is increased, as it should be and your range is greatly increased.

 

Hope this helps.

I found a useful tanker trick that I haven't seen posted here I'd like to share. It comes in handy for real long range missions that takes a couple of refuels to make. Attach a couple of tankers to a F-15, send them out for the long range mission. Make sure your game time is running in real-time (1 second game-time equals 1 second game-time) for the next step. Select the group after takeoff and split 1 tanker from the group. When you are prompted to set a course for the new group, select yes then cancel the next menu item. Now go into the join menu and join this tanker to the other 2 aircraft. Later on, when you refuel, only one tanker will refuel your unit. If you didn't do this, both tankers would refuel the F-15 and leave. The F-15 gets the same amount of fuel from 1 as from 2 in the tests I ran. When I split the tankers, the range is increased, as it should be and your range is greatly increased.

 

Hope this helps.

Yeh a good trick, any means by which you end up with tankers in separate units (ie more than one tanker unit in the group) will give you this. If the tankers are of mixed platform (different aircraft types) then you can do it when putting your group together for launch. Also if launching from a pair of cariers in the same surface group, I think if you take tankers from differnet carriers they end up in separate units.

The tanker unit of lowest unit ID number (last added to the group when putting 'launch' together) will refuel first, so put you're tankers of shortest duration (range) in last.

Also if the group has multiple units for refuelling, say antiradar units and precision units, put the shortest range units in last (they will get the lowest ID unit number) as they take the first lot of fuel.

Don thomas