Flight members wouldn't take off.

[Wayfarer]

I took off for a mission today, ostensibly with three other flight members according to the briefing room. It vaguely registered in my subconscious that none of my flight were getting away before me, which is very unusual, and I was feeling quite pleased at being first off.

After reaching 1000' I turned and brought the airfield into view. The rest of my flight were still on the ground. They hadn't moved an inch!

I circled the airfield, gaining height, and they didn't budge. I tried the wingman rejoin and help commands but - nothing doing.

Fortunately I actually found my escort of SE5s and completed the mission myself. As it was a fairly lengthy trip home (and Easter Sunday dinner was at 1:00pm) I tried warping and got the message 'cannot warp your flight are taking off'.

They were, however, still on the ground as I landed sometime later. I don't know whether anyone else has encountered this, and if there is an in-game solution, or if it you would have to restart the mission if you really didn't want to fly it solo.

[DonL]

That has happened to me a few times. I don't know why or how to fix it.

[+Olham]

I read something like this a long time ago. I guess it may be just one "faulty" mission.

Looks like the OFF Manager didn't get the take-off completed.

Only if you see the same thing again, you might have to make a "Reset OFF Manager" or even the "Reset CFS3" -

but that would eliminate all your campaign pilots.

 

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Edited April 8, 2012 by Olham

[Wayfarer]

Ok, thanks Olham. I keep a copy of my pilots' files so I can recover some detail if it comes to that.

 

DonL, this is the first time I have had this happen. If I have to resort to Olham's suggestion I will let you know if it works or not.

[+Olham]

If you guys should need to reactivate your pilots, it is a bit complex, but possible.

You need to back up your "Pilots" folder first, which is here:

 

CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields > campaigns > CampaignData > Pilots

 

After "Reset OFF Manager", you need to create as many new pilot as you had, in the same

squadrons and probably at the same or little earlier time.

Then you fly each pilot once - actually it is enough to be on the field in your crate, then you

can exit again.

Only after that, you can exchange the content in the pilot folders with the old.

 

I hope I haven't forgotten anything - I wish you luck.