Survivable over-water bailouts/ejections

[milo1973]

Currently pilots are insta-unalived if they land on water. We often simulate (C)SAR to rescue pilots, who can then return to the fight. This is currently only possible if they bail out over land. Can't we give the little guys a dingy or something? Thanks!

[bies]

With the new Dynamic Campaign and CSAR missions it will be a must. Especially it's easy to code in a rudimentary way, even the old sims had this function.

[Gunfreak]

Would be rather essential for Pacific too. Would be annoyed having flown 300 miles back to the carrier, just to die because I had to ditch 500 feet from carrier.

[cfrag]

On 4/3/2024 at 9:00 AM, milo1973 said:

This is currently only possible if they bail out over land.

It would be great if this was made possible in vanilla DCS. 

In the meantime, you can use scripts like this:

 

Try this as a demo (it's based on DML so you can easily see how you can create water-based CSAR as well:

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3335652/

 

[9thHunt]

As I do a lot of flying over water (and ejecting) I would love this.  I would love if the pilot spawned a little raft on water landing.

[Evoman]

This request has come up several times over the years and for good reason. The first time I ejected over water I was shocked that the pilot drowned instantly just like it used to happen in the older versions of GTA from 20 years ago. I definitely would like to see at a minimum an automatic inflatable life saver and green dye just like when Maverick and Goose ejected in their infamous flat spin incident.

 

 

Edited July 29, 2024 by Evoman