Heli_Support

HELI SUPPORT - Medevac & Transport

Call in helicopter support with map markers. The helicopters are real, flyable-physics aircraft: they can be shot, their crew can be hit, and they react the way a real crew would.

MEDEVAC - "Dustoff 2-1"
- Place a map marker with the text MEDEVAC.
- The bird flies in, lands, and waits for you to load your wounded (unconscious players too).
- It lifts off, holds nearby while the medic treats each patient, then flies back and drops them off on the same LZ.
- Radio updates for every step; patients who die aboard are reported KIA.

TRANSPORT - "Big Windy 2-5"
- Place a PZ marker (pickup zone) and an LZ marker (landing zone).
- The bird lands at the PZ, waits for your team to board, flies you to the LZ and drops you off.

REALISTIC FLIGHT & CREW
- Terrain-following low-level flight, smooth turns, flare and quick combat landings.
- Approaches along valleys instead of over ridges.
- Checks the landing spot: if your mark is too tight (compound, town, trees, slope, water), it finds the nearest clear ground within 150 m and tells you where.
- Takes fire? It backs off and tries again. Still taking hits? It asks for a new LZ, or picks its own nearby.
- Pilot hit: the co-pilot takes over. Lost the engine, tail rotor or main rotor: "WE LOST THE ENGINE! GONNA TRY AND SET IT DOWN! BRACE!" - a forced landing to save everyone aboard.
- Accidents that aren't enemy fire don't cost you a cooldown.

TWO BIRDS AT ONCE
- A medevac and a transport can be out at the same time, with height separation and holding patterns so they don't collide.

HELICOPTERS
- Uses the UH-60 Medical (Sikorsky H-60 Project) and CH-47 (H-47 Chinook) if those mods are loaded on the server.
- Falls back to the base-game UH-1H Huey on vanilla servers. No extra dependencies required.

SERVER SETTINGS
- $profile:HeliSupport.json is created on first start: cooldowns (default 90 s medevac, 5 min transport), ground wait times, treatment time and helicopter lists.

COMPATIBILITY
- Shares an airspace lock with A-10 CAS Call-In, AC-130 Gunship and C-130 Airdrop: only one support aircraft launches at a time, and calls during the lock wait and launch automatically.

Credits

[b]Preview image photos (public domain, U.S. Government works):[/b]
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[*]UH-60 Black Hawk MEDEVAC, Afghanistan 2015 — U.S. Army photo by Maj. Asha Cooper
[*]UH-1H Iroquois, 159th Aviation Regiment, 1990 — U.S. DefenseImagery photo by TSgt. Hans Deffner (DF-ST-92-07283)
[*]CH-47 Chinook, Afghanistan — U.S. Army photo
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Use of U.S. military imagery does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Army or Department of Defense.

Helicopters:

[*]UH-1H — base game (Bohemia Interactive)
[*]UH-60 Black Hawk — from the H60 mod by its original authors (optional, not included)
[*]CH-47 Chinook — from the Chinook mod by its original authors (optional, not included)
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Heli_Support doesn't include or modify any files from those mods. It only spawns their helicopters when the mods are loaded, and falls back to the Huey when they aren't.