Ditching/water landing changes
Another one for the wishlist: Changes in the appearance of aircrew floating on water.
1) It appears that the animation for a floating aircrew/aircrew in a life raft only appears if you're flying for the U.S. or Japan. Teach the British, Germans, Russians, etc. how to swim! Make floating figures/figures in life rafts for other nations.
2) Allow the pilot skin to be retained for the floating/life raft figure.
3) Get rid of the samurai sword on the floating Japanese figure, few Japanese aircrew carried swords! More to the point, it doesn't appear on the stock parachuting figure.
4) Create larger (2 or 5 man) life rafts for heavy bombers, etc. which appear when the plane ditches.
5) Allow certain planes to float for longer periods of time when they ditch. For example, the B17 could float for several minutes. If properly ditched most planes will float for at least a few seconds before sinking - longer than currently modeled.
6) Link crew in life raft/crew in water animations to survival equipment carried onboard the aircraft. That is, if the plane historically didn't carry a raft, you don't appear in a raft when you ditch. If it carried two, then two or more aircrew appear in rafts.
7) Possibility of adding raft/floating figures to FMB. These can be move and be given waypoints to represent swimming or currents.
8 ) Chance of drowning. Currently, you always successfully bail out of a sunken plane, regardless of how far underwater your plane is. If you can't get out of your plane in time, there's a chance of a pilot/crew killed result.
9) The "running man" animation should replace the "floating man"/life raft animation if you ditch in extremely shallow water just off shore. Of course, the bailout animation should have you bailing out so that you run towards land.
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