RHIB Range?

[HoboWithAK 0]

I'm curious how far the RHIB can go without re-fueling. Can it start on the far side of Rahmadi, then circle Sahrani and return to where it started? That must be 40 or 50 miles (or whatever, I can't tell and don't care to figure it).

[456820 0]

only one way to figure out is to try it

Another way you could get an AI to do it for you whilst you go have something to eat or what ever, leave your self in the back of the boat, when you come back you can find out.

Could be best to leave it in 4x speed too.

[johnnyboy 3797]

Yeah, give him a set of waypoints to cause him to circle the island, with the last one being a cycle waypoint.

And add a trigger that fires when the rhib's fuel is zero, where you will display the time elapsed. You will then know how long it can run before it goes dry.

I'm away from arma right now, so can't give you the exact commands, but I am positive you can do the above.

[ColonelSandersLite 0]

If it's an issue where you *want* limited range, yeah, do that.

If you want unlimited range though, I wouldn't bother. Instead, just keep refueling it using the setFuel command.

[HoboWithAK 0]

Nope, I just want to know how far it will go. I'm putting together a mission for some more hard-core folks who probably would choose an 30 minute insertion by boat over a 3 minute insertion by helicopter if it meant giving them surprise. I'll try it out tonight and let you guys know how far it goes.

[[frl]myke 14]

I had once the issue i needed the approx fuel prediction of a bunch of vehicle so i wrote this little script to test:

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private ["_vehi", "_elapsed", "_init_fuel"];

_vehi = _this select 0;

_elapsed = 0;

_vehi setfuel 0.01;

while {true} do

{

_fuel = fuel _vehi;

_elapsed = _elapsed + 1;

_msg = format ["Fuel: %1\nTime: %2sec\n", _fuel, _elapsed];

hint _msg;

sleep 1;

if (fuel _vehi == 0) exitwith {};

};

_prediction = _elapsed * 100;

_hrs = floor ((_prediction / 60) / 60);

_mins = floor ((_prediction -((_hrs * 60) * 60)) / 60);

_secs = _prediction - (((_hrs * 60) + _mins) * 60);

_msg = format ["Fuel prediction:\n%3 std. %1 min. %2 sec.", _mins, _secs, _hrs];

hint _msg;

place your RHIB in editor giving him a few waypoints (as already mentoined above) and exec this script on it. It isn't 100 % accurate but might give an approximation.

Myke out