A pilot rescue mod ? I never heard about this... sounds interesting ! any info ?
It's an AG-51 Mod for HSFX, made by Fireball. Works very well, usually the first guy to die on our DF server missions will go grab a PBY and wait for other guys to ditch and then pick them up, you get points for it too...........
Here's the explanation of the mod, it's still in beta test, once it's good to go we will probably put in the public forums with the other mods and you'll be able to use it.
AG-51 Aircrew Rescue 1.0 for HSFX 6
In a stock multi-player mission, if you lose your engine, or get damaged, or run out of gas, you just try to ditch or bailout somewhere outside of enemy territory. Once you're on the ground or in the water you lay there on the ground or float there in the water for about 30 seconds, then you disappear and you're done. Everyone else on your team presses on home, because there's nothing anyone can do for you. There's really no incentive for you to try to ditch or bailout near a rescue submarine, or near a reference point so rescuers will have an easier time locating you. There's no incentive for your wingman to stay with you as long as possible to protect you and mark your location. No rescue aircraft comes looking for you. None of the things that happened in real life to try to get you home really apply in the game.
This mod gives you two ways to get rescued:
- If you successfully ditch or bailout within 1000 meters of a friendly airfield or a friendly ship (including submarines), once you're down you can press your Attach/Detach key, then you and all of your crewmen will disappear and the game will log that you have been successfully rescued. Until you press your Attach/Detach key you will lay there on the ground or float in the water indefinitely.
- If you successfully ditch or bailout in the water more than 1000 meters from a a friendly ship or friendly airbase, instead of disappearing after 30 seconds you and your crewmen continue to float there in the water (unless you disconnect of course). One of your team mates can come searching for you in a seaplane. If the seaplane locates you, he'll land nearby, approach to within 100 meters, then press his Attach/Detach key. If he's close enough, you will disappear at that point, and the game will log that you've been picked up. Your team mate will fly the seaplane back to any friendly ship and land nearby. He'll approach to within 1000 meters of any ship, then press his Attach/Detach key. This will "unload" all the rescued airmen on board. The game will log that you have been successfully rescued.
[NOTE: All the descriptions of a seaplane rescue in the water would also apply to rescuing airmen downed on land if you can get a rescue aircraft of some sort within 100 meters of them to pick them up, then successfully get them back to a friendly base.]
the Kingfisher would be a great plane for this mod... sure hope it gets done sooner than later. Another mod that would be good is to get deployable landing gear on the PBY for land taxi into the water and take offs or just takeoff and landings on land. The Kingfisher also had landing gear, would definitely add a new dimension to the planes.
Cheers.
Hoss
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