Idea for CrewChief help with precision landing/hovering/pinacle landings

[Renko]

With the Chinook is more vital than ever, for obvious reasons, to have help from the crew to position the helo in certain circumstances with high precision required. But without the CrewChief guidance is hard to do.
Thats why we as users need to relay on external views for this, which is not great.
So i was thinking "how could it be done with DCS current tools and in a plausible way".

There are two things we already have:
- We have the crewchief guiding us to a cargo or to an unload area already with the External Cargo Window Interface, and voice over.
- We have something called "Cockpit Visual Recon Mode", that gives you a red cross in your POV to mark targets for the map.

So, what if we combine those two.
Modify that red cross from the Cockpit Visual Recon Mode to enable the pilot to place visually a mark point in the ground, and that point will work as anchor for the External Cargo Window Interface to guide the Chinook rear wheels there.

I think it could work since we have both tools already.
And it will just need that the Cockpit Visual Recon Mode could give a point reference to the External Cargo Window Interface, to work perfectly.
Like the guidance the External Cargo Window Interface already gives you when you are droping a cargo in a designated area.

This will be a great QoL addition for the Chinook, and necesary since the users are already relying in external views.
The best part is that this feature could be used by the other logistic helos from DCS, so development time will be valuable not only for the Chinook users.

Please consider this


(I attached a screenshot with both interfaces just for reference)

[RePhil]

This is also needed badly for doing pinnacle ladings on a cliff edge or building roof or a script giving commands like they do for cargo loading

 

Edited April 27 by RePhil

[Renko]

Just saw a user posting this video on ED's discord, with some custom scripts and voice overs.

I'm going to leave this here as a reference for the devs
Because I think this kind of communications would be great to have for this CrewChief system. Better than the current ones for SlingLoad, as these are more accurate and frequent.

 

[Rogue Trooper]

It would be nice if they could copy and paste George from the Apache or Petrovitch from the Hind. 

If you call "Chief" you get the "george" style menu pop up and a small Line Of Sight circle in the middle of your view, align the circle on the place of interest and hit "This point" and then the next menu allows you to choose: pinnacle landing, landing or suspended cargo drop. Cargo pick up is already in place and works well with voice comands.

The first tier could have: this point, take off, ROE or something like that etc...

It would be nice to have the door gunners/crew verbally clearing you for take offs or landings. 

 

[AirSenpai]

specially for pinnacle landings.