new idea....Hosiptal AI flight plans

[jmagyar]

Have I got an idea. I seen that Helicopters can now have Flight plans too. I have not seen how this works...but if it does...then my idea is to create hospitals in metro areas and somehow put the landing pad on top of the roof. I know that you can create a hard surface on a building to land on....My idea is to make that its own airport, assign it a new airport ID simualar to an overlay in FS 2002, and be able to create Flight plans with TTools with Medical type Helo's to simulate Hospital Operations. Possible????

James

[_IceMan_]

I am not sure if its possible, but it sounds SWEET!

[kolkol]

from my knowledge it is possible. i vaguely remeber sum1 said they did ai hwlicopter flight plans and it worked. but it does sound "SWEET"

great idea

[jmagyar]

okay...the interest is there...I will play with AI heli flightplans...But I am not a scenery designer...Maybe I can enlist one to make A building to represent a hospital and try it out. From then on...scenery designers would just have to make a building, assign it a new IACO code and its easy to make flightplans....

[kolkol]

another thing that would be kool is if a scenery designer designed a crash scene like on a road or something to make it all the better

[jmagyar]

I am talking to a scenery designer now.....Should not be a problem on the Hospital.

On the crash side of it... :) You know the fake flames you see when you crash? Now that would look cool on a car or something...Have a few fire trucks there....police car with lights like the beacon lights at the airports...only change the texture to red.... Screw the AI....I want to fly it!!

James


EDIT...forgot to mention...If you have active camera...you could walk to the crash site :)

[tlkelley]

I believe hospital helipads already have identifiers. I know that in Dallas they do, I have run CareFlights there online on VATSIM. The real world CareFlight is based at Dallas Love, goes to say the scene of an accident and then to ParkLand Hospital then back to Dallas Love. Mostly fly VFR but I will file a FP just so the controller knows. The Helipad is not there in FS2K2 or FS9 so I have landed next to the building close to the coordinates of the real world hospital.

[jmagyar]

So....my idea is to somehow...(still in the early early development stages) compile a list of cordiantes of Hospitals that have helipads on thier roofs, find there designators....and create flight plans that probably run them to a small neigboring airport and back.

Then build buildings to represent the hosiptals. Which out of everything is going to be the hangup. Because people are going to say..."That doesn't look like Mercy General" or whatever hospital it is....

So if people could live with a generic hospital, then this is a go.

The only other side that I see as a downer....Is the landing clearence and ATC. I don't know how that would work.

Geez....Sounded like a good easy idea in the first place. Tends to get tougher as I think more about it. Something I need to sleep on.

Any ANY!! suggestions, possible solutions, or any feedback would be greatly appreciated!!

James


(EDIT) Is creating a new designator even possible without the new AFCAD???? Dang...I need to stop thinking of all the problems I might have!! (END EDIT)

[Captain_Slarty]

"The real world CareFlight is based at Dallas Love"

thanks for the info 'sweetie' :*

[dunsul]

Other ideas to contribute along these lines..........

There are offshore rigs already in FS2004. Why not create AI traffic to them?

Police patrol the highways & interstates for speeders as well as large cities. (BTW, anybody remember an old series called "Chopper One"? Or how about another called "240-Robert"?)

Every city has TV news stations and some of them have news choppers that patrol.

I am sure there are other possibilities but these are just a few.