Build your own missions?

[RitterKreuz]

Is it possible to build your own missions for FSX? it seems like i had heard this.

If so i have some ideas for missions - tell me what you think. these are two i came up with for the Bell Jet ranger  8-)

Mission 1 Titled: "STS-107" (beginner skill)

Aircraft Type: Bell 206 Jet ranger

Situation: On February 1st 2003 after a 16 day long orbital mission the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during the re-entry process... though the debris field stretches over a few states... most of the debris came down in Eastern Texas and Central Louisiana. Your helicopter company has been dispatched to Jacksonville, Texas to assist in the recovery of debris. As one of the company's first choppers on the scene you have been assigned a fairly large search area, your ground crew will coordinate with you and local authorities to help find crash debris.

Weather: Severe Clear, winds calm, visibility unlimited.

Objective: Leaving Jacksonville's Cherokee County Airport on the morning of February Second your ground crew assigns you a search grid about 5 miles to the south of the airport. about half way there your ground crew calls you up with a change of plans saying, "Searcher one, base...a local resident east of the airport called local police and said that a large piece of debris is in her front yard, its along Highway 79 just east of here... reposition to check it out and call us back." You get the object and return it to the airport. It turns out to be a legit piece of debris so your ground crew decides that east of the airport is probably a better area for the initial search. in that search area you will locate 12 to 15 large pieces of debris, pick them up and return them to the airport. the mission concludes with "One of our teams arrived in Nacogdoches, Texas just about an hour ago, they are finding a lot of debris down there... one of them actually found an in tact helmet from a shuttle crew this situation is getting pretty saddening... if you want you can reposition to Nacogdoches, you might have more luck down there and it sounds like they could use the help... if not just head back here and we will brief on the new search areas when the rest of the team arrives." the option is yours and landing at either airport ends the mission.

Mission 2 Titled "Hurricane William" (skill level advanced)

Aircraft Type: Bell 206 Jet ranger

Situation: A major hurricane is quickly approaching the Gulf Coast of the United States. As a chopper pilot for the local state police you are charged with evacuating those individuals who cannot evacuate themselves. You must leave the United States Army Reserve post that has been established at Acadiana Regional Airport (KARA) and head out to evacuate some of the civilian population from their yards and roof tops.

Weather: Thunderstorms in the area, Heavy Rain, visibility 6 miles, winds 090 at 24 gusts 40

Objective: You have been assigned an evacuation grid to work. In a triangular grid from Acadiana Regional to white oak VOR to Williams Memorial Airport (KPTN) there are 10 known locations where evacuees are stranded. Your chopper can only hold so many people so you will have to return to the Reserve post to drop off your passengers between each run. The weather is worsening and time is critical.

[Giteen]

Hmm..

If you can figure the missions out then cool.

The Columbia mission is sensitive.  I would say don't go there.  (maybe rename the spacecraft)

[CSM]

i think its a great idea and there has to be a way to do it because there are already addon missions for fsx, and with the columbia thing i'd stick with it its not really that sensitive, there have been movies made about 9/11 and the nazis and all the gory stuff like that, simply if people dont like it they wont download it.

[wji]

"Is it possible to build your own missions for FSX?"
Affirmative.
. . . another good reason to buy the Deluxe version of FSX:
"Building Missions -
To learn how to build your own Missions, use the Missions Creation Kit. The Missions Creation Kit is a feature of Flight Simulator Deluxe version. For more information, see http://FSInsider.com."

Reference cited: FSX Learning Center (from my desktop)

[Al_Fallujah]

Well, Here in the US, I would say STS Columbia is still a sensative topic, but is a matter of opinion.

The movies about 9/11 have all been done with a certain level of delicacy here.  Just because it's been made into a movie means that everyone is okay with it.

The Nazi's on the other hand deserve to be lampooned...

Personally, I would never play a "Columbia Mission".  Besides, it seems too much like the CAP mission, but in a helicopter and over a wider area.

[RitterKreuz]

sensative topic maybe - but i was right in the middle of the recovery efforts - I was even in the air doing a BFR when pieces started raining down in our area... we were advised by ATC broadcasting on all local frequencies to land at the nearest suitable airport.

I was out of business for a while there with a TFR that had been established.

I remember that our quiet little ramp (and many quiet little ramps ar surrounding GA airports) was turned into a major base of operations for several dozen search choppers.

I think if done tastefully and respectfully, it would be an interesting and historically accurate mission for FSX IMHO