Sling load line length

[Ghost1606688907]

Hi, 

Is there a way i can make the sling load line longer when hooking up? I can change the rope length in the ME but you still have to hover down to say 35' when you have a 100' line attached to hook up to the load which is not realistic, you should be able to hover at say 90' to connect the line to the load.

[Megalax]

If you want realistic, sling lines are not usually hooked up from the top down, but from bottom up. This means that you need a crew to hook up the load on the ground while the helicopter hovers over them, at around 10 feet above ground. 

If you wanted even more realistic, you'd have to hover over to your load and settle down about 10 feet away, have the crew chief/flight engineer get out and hook up the load, then he'd come back in and recalculate your performance numbers for you. Then after all that he would voice marshall you over the load, after which you should get the cue that you are over the load and can begin moving up, with a count down to when you'll take up strain and then check your numbers with the load off the ground by 1 foot.