Paratroopers

[cwloew]

Greetings to all

I am in the process of making missions for CFS2 Pacific using the C-47 as a theme.  We all know the types of missions they flew, bsides being the official airline of the USAAF, they also delivered supplies.

I am having difficulty up the wazoo  with a new trial concept and desperately need your help.

I have an "aircraft" folder named chute, I can put the paratrooper in the C-47, it shows up as a weapon load, and though it looks funky with an open chute sticking up out of the plane, I can select it as a weapon and drop one at a time (total of ten) The major problem is how to get the additional C-47's (AI) in the flight to drop them as there is "attack with" - but nothing that says chute for options in the Mission Builder, is that an option that can be added? Attack with all weapons didn't help either.

[Corsair Freak]

I'm guessing the paratroopers DP is set up as if he was a bomb. If thats the case then you'll want to use the "Attack with Bombs" option. But, to do that you'll need to set up the mission as a Strike, or Anti-Shipping.

[Tango_Romeo]

1.  There's a nice new C-119 over at SimOuthouse that already has the paratroopers installed and working.
They fit nicely inside the large fuselage.  8)

2.  Though I have tried many DP combinations that claim to allow AIs to drop an entire load, I have never had any success.   AIs seem to just drop one at a time.  :-[

3.  Though the C-119's DP can be made to salvo all ten troopers in the player aircraft,  visually it looks much better to just keep hitting the release until they're all out.  Looks more like a stick that way.