My guess is that there is still too much SH3/4 AI still in SH5 for the scripting to influence too much of their behavior. It will be interesting to test. Do you have the planes set to Elite (CrewRating=4)? That is almost a necessity in ASW planes, and improves their "maneuvering". Those dry runs, of not dropping occur in SH4 irritatingly all of the time, especially when the player sub dives prior to visual contact. Strange thing is, on the 2nd pass from the plane, they will drop their bombs almost precisely where the submarine dove, almost like they dropped a dye marker on their first pass - which would be cool to model in - but that "accuracy" there is uncanny and unrealistic. Surely, the radar equipped plane was able to gather course and speed data inbound, and could more accurately anticipate where the sub would be? If the airplane makes visual contact, it almost always drops bombs on the first pass, and strafes the water and/or (surely) diving boat. The plane's turning tighter and maintaining contact with the sub in SH5 is something that would be nice to have in SH4, where they often fly 12-15 nm beyond before coming back for a 2nd and 3rd pass... Cool stuff, kapuhy!
