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