TouchingCloud’s latest update for AirShowAssistant will put your skills to the test with its newest feature: aerial refuelling. The feature is included in version 3 of the tool. AirShowAssistant also allows you to perform your own airshow with special effects features that are customisable per aircraft. You can also enable virtual wingmen to fly with in several formations.
AirShowAssistant’s Aerial Refuelling features two tanker models to refuel from: a Boeing KC-46 Pegasus tanker aircraft as well as an Ilyushin Il-78. It also features a Boeing MQ-25 Stingray, a refuelling drone. The team indicates that they are taking customers’ feedback on which tanker to add to the tool. Refuelling can be done with a drogue system and a flying boom system.
While the team has worked hard to add compatibility to a range of aircraft, users can also customise their own aircraft in the simulator to work with Aerial Refuelling. A virtual refuelling boom can be attached to any aircraft via the AirShowAssistant interface, after which it can be used with the tanker aircraft.
While aerial refuelling, or air-to-air refuelling (AAR), is a complex task requiring a lot of skill from pilots performing it, the TouchingCloud team has made it a little bit easier for anyone to start doing it in the simulator. AirShowAssistant’s Aerial Refuelling features three complexity options: Rookie, Pro and Ace. While the developer did not elaborate on how these differences work in practice, they should allow anyone to start performing this difficult task.
