Hey,
Recently, I have gotten back into flight sims. Downloaded DCS 2.5 and am really impressed with so many aspects of the sim. I understand this is primarily a combat flight sim but....
Would there be any interest in developing modules/terrain for aerial fire fighting operations. I work in the industry as both a lead plane pilot & a tanker captain and we struggle to find proper training tools. Currently, we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year doing training with real bombers & lead planes. The cause of all of this training is mainly to benefit the lead plane pilot & Air attack officers who need to be able to direct aircraft movements over the fire and position them usually via lead in, to apply their product to the fire. While this definitely needs some hands on flying, much of the training is procedural and could easily be done in simulation. We do have a crude addon for FSX that does a very poor job of simulating this and nothing even near what DCS would be capable of imo.
I could see companies like ours willing to pay a LOT of money for a well developed Aerial fire fighting sim.
This may be out of the scope of DCS but thought I'd throw it out there!
Corey
