Samri39

Well that’s aviation guys. 4 days of mission planning, a 2 hour briefing then at brakes release, the interadaptor poofer valve <profanity>es itself and it’s back to the crew room. And that was the only flight you had rostered for the month.

Hi Lizzard, Thanks for your reply……I think you’re right ;-) After I engaged my brain, (and yes it hurt!!), it wasn’t that hard to answer my own question. I am just trying to put together some realistic (typical) sorties based on my time flying and instructing on them when I was in the military. Performance is a very significant consideration at high weights in the ‘ol girl. For anyone who is interested: The Mission editor “Empty Weight” (which by definition does not include crew), in fact does. From memory, a typical empty weight is approx. 5700- 6000 lbs (ish). The M/Editor empty weight is 6923lbs…so about 4 x 230 lbs for crew. (Sounds about right with Helmets, vests, egos and Chocky bars etc). Note this is the same if there is physically no rear crew showing, like in the slick. So….depending on environmental conditions, that leaves about 2500 lbs for Fuel plus Payload (or weapons). So, say for a slick - 9 troops in patrol kit plus 500 lbs of gas). As Lizzard says.."Set Internal Cargo" adds to the Mission Editor Empty weight.

Thanks Peter, I can keep my false teeth in now!

Hi all, I was hoping someone could help me out here? I am slowing becoming more familiar with the Mission Editor and have a question about the: “Set Internal Cargo” trigger action. Firstly, does this action control all internal weight, ie 2 x Pilots plus 2 Crewmen, plus self-loading freight etc, or just the troops and cargo? Does the Basic weight in the mission set up, only include empty weight, + Fuel and Weapons / Ammo etc? or does it also include the “crew”? If it does include crew, say for a slick…does it only include the 2 Pilots as no Loadmasters / Crew Chiefs are shown in the back? If no crew are included in the Basic weight, then I would assume you would have to start the mission with a Set Internal Cargo Trigger for the desired number of crew members. ie 2 x pilots and say 2 x Air Crewmen for a slick. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks