Wooo hoo!
We got it. Finally
That picture looks great. Now, let's see you go up into a hover and pick something up! Just so you know, you can't see it most of the time, but I think there should be a stretcher in front of the generator. It seems to like to hide in the ground until you pick it up.
Something you might want to do now, if you want to pick the stretcher up: Open up the sim.cfg file for the Stretcher_sm object in your \Simobjects\Misc folder. Make sure the line Empty Weight = 260 reads what I'm showing. IIRC, it's 60 by default. If you leave it at 60, and pick it up with the hoist, it will fly up into the air, breaking the cable. Looks really amazing. I'd hate to be in
that stretcher!! If you change it to 260, as though it had a person in it instead of being empty, it works perfectly.
Be careful about placing the objects while on the ground. If your plane bumps into one, like during a vertical take-off, it will cause you to crash. Hover up to about 50' or so, hit the Hover Hold to hold the bird in place, THEN place the objects. Safer that way.
By the way, there are more than one page to the SHT+J menu. Look down at the bottom of the list, and there should be an entry that reads something like 0-Next Page (that's a zero, not an oh). Several other objects are available to use, generally single objects. I just made the first entry have several objects available to make it easier. I'm one lazy son-uv-a-gun...
If you break the cable, and I do frequently, you have to reload the plane to get it working again. I have one of my joystick buttons assigned to the Reload User Aircraft function. SO much easier! Other than that, you can go up to the menu bar up top, Aircraft>Select Aircraft, and choose the same plane again. Or pick a different one, then choose the plane you desire again.
Have fun! Carry a few loads out to a stationary boat, to get a feel for how it's done, then try to carry a load out to a moving boat! It's a real adventure. matching speeds with the boat, making sure you're right over the helipad, lowering the load, with the wind from you motion blowing it around...FUN!
Remember, the shorter you can keep the cable below you, the finer the control you have over it, but TOO short and it will blow up into the plane.
See ya!
Pat☺
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