CSAR Helicopter Scripting

[MattWales 10]

Evening gents,

Having not played ArmA in years, I am not sure if a mod already exists out there for this. I know that there are mods out there that replicate the old "Zodiac up the ramp" boat recovery onto a Chinook, but for simply recovering swimmers from the water, is there a way of having a helicopter come to a low however over the water, at which point a wire ladder is deployed from the side (For Blackhawks etc) or from the centre hatch (For Chinooks) that the swimmers can climb up and into the aircraft. An alternative is the old SAR "winch-and-sling" system, by which you could recover 2 blokes at a time from the water.

This would also provide some fun for impromptu SAR missions if aircrew are forced to abandon an aircraft over-water. Their buddy flies out in an appropriate aircraft, finds the guys in the water, comes to a low hover and deploys a winch/ladder to them, allowing them to climb aboard and live to fight another day!

An extra script that might come in handy is a hand-held smoke/flare that helps the aircraft/crewman find the person in the water (PIW).

Just thought this might be fun, instead of the old story of surviving a crash, only to find yourself an hours swim away from shore, at which point you go "Oh sod it" and end up killing yourself. Instead, you give your mate a call (Maybe showing a "distress beacon location" radius of say 1 kilometer on the map?), he flies out to you, you pop your flare/smoke, he flies down to you, performs an epic hover, deploys a ladder, and you climb on, back for tea and medals... come on, that'd be cool wouldnt it?

My 2p...

Matt.

[GrumpyRhino 30]

Sounds like a fantastic idea. I wasn't really interested in the underwater/swimming part of Arma 3. But this would make it a much more integrated part of a combined assault.

[liquidpinky 11]

Another thing that would be nice if it was ported in from Take On Helis like fast roping would be decent as well. Not like they haven't already made it.