This thread and project hasn't seen any movement for sometime, time to start it back up I think. With the development of the rotor wash grass and water shader, it's got me wanting a fully functioning "swiss army knife" helicopter. We have everything we need to create a full service helo that can do it all, how about an AIRCRANE
So my first implementation is going to be the "wildfire suppression system". I have no idea what phrase they use, that is my phrasing. For now I'll use the acronym WSS.
First step a hard dock-able, working, water tank. I plan to implement the flex hose, saltwater ram scoop and the fire hose that shoots water out the front boom.
I can adapt the cargo hauling code I already have for cargo containers for docking and picking up the water tank. It needs some rework and simplification but now I have incentive. Hopefully I can either include it with the aircraft or maybe a fgdata addition if I can optimize and generalize it enough.
Starting on the tank
If StuartC's crew hoist system is going to be GPL when released maybe we can adapt that for rope or cable hauling. The amount of jobs the AirCrane is used for is staggering.