Suggestion Declined Aux - NPAS: HELIMED Vehicle

[willrunci]

Suggestion Title: HELIMED Vehicle

Division: Aux - NPAS

FlightOps have access to 2 vehicles. NPAS Shogun and Ford Ranger. The ranger is pretty redundant as an NPAS vehicle as the shogun has els.

Could the Ranger be re skinned for Helimed use? This would allow Pilot to transit in appropriate designated vehicles. ELS could be added but not really required really as Helimed is not avail till ‘on standby’ at RL.

 

[(NS2) AlexSure]

Hello Will,

So the best way forward regarding this suggestion would be to add two additional spawn locations for Pilots. One on Royal London Roof and another on St Thomas Roof.
Furthermore, adding a locker object next to both spawn points where Pilots can switch into the HEMS uniform.
In addition, add two Vehicle Spawn objects, one for spawning the Helicopter on Royal London Helipad and another for St Thomas Helipad.
To my knowledge this would be the most feasible option and would eliminate the need for Helimed to travel to the hospital helipad from the NPAS hanger each time they're deploying. If this came into effect we would most likely change the Sandy Shores Airfield standby location to St Thomas Helipad unless an additional spawn was created for Sandy Airfield Instead. As a result I will move this to pending dev review.

Regards,
Alex
Flight Captain

 

[Prophet]

So the simple answer is no, it won't be reskinned. The ranger is a real vehicle used by NPAS, and is perfectly suitable for a pilot to drive across the airfield to collect the HELIMED chopper.
All a helimed pilot needs to do is drive to the hangar, collect the helicopter, then fly to and meet up with HEMS CCP's at the hospital. Similar to how it's done IRL, where the pilot collects the helicopter from RAF Northolt, flies to Royal London, and stations there for the day.

Reskinning the ranger is not essential to complete this step