Posts by VICFire

  • Airport Rescue and Firefighting Update (RFFS)

    Quote from nmckee

    Hi is there a way we can get airport operations as a separate building as I have a small fire station at Lydd which is a small to medium airfield and keeps generating mission that need airport operations vehicle which currently has to come from another location.

    We asked for a separate building, but the Devs agreed to include the department but only as an expansion of police or fire stations. For you, however, I would definitely class Lydd as small only. The update was designed in a way that you wouldn't need Ops for small airfields.

  • Airport Rescue and Firefighting Update (RFFS)

    Quote from Morvran

    I was wondering about this. Does placing a large POI allow for the spawning of small and medium stuff as well, or do you need be placing all 3?

    You don't need to place all three unless you want all 6 categories of aircraft to spawn there.
    "Small" will spawn just Code A and B,
    "Medium" will spawn A to C
    "Large" will spawn Code C to Code F


    Keep in mind we haven't yet been able to implement the number of missions we want so please bare with us and over time we will have more variety in missions. In turn this should make them spawn more frequently than they do now.

  • Airport Rescue and Firefighting Update (RFFS)

    Quote from TheNavalAuxiliary

    Edinburgh is an F indeed yes, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Prestwick are the only F ones in Scotland

    Sorry to be pedantic, but Glasgow Airport is the only one capable of routinely accepting Code F passenger aircraft. Prestwick could, but its terminal is tiny so all it gets are some Ryanair 737s. The airfield is big enough at Prestwick though, but it's mostly cargo and military that go in there.


    As for Edinburgh, it's tiny. Code E only, not F. I can't find any references to a Code F ever landing there - the taxiways are too narrow and the stands aren't designed for them. For the purpose of this game however, I would classify Edinburgh as "large" to get bigger missions as they do still routinely have 777s and 787s.

  • Your setup

    I'm at a stage now where progress is slow as I build but lost a little bit of interest in the fleet planning stages. Spent some time today sorting out the long overdue Thames Valley. Still a lot more work to do with Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and the rest of my coasts, but I'll get there in due course. There's a few stations off this map (namely HART, HEMS or NPAS, plus a couple of hospitals ready for future expansion). If I had an easier way of tracking them, I'd list the number of stations I have; but as they're stretched over 34 dispatch centres, I'm not going to put the time into that right now.


  • Spelling mistakes and translation errors. (Formerly Premise Alarm)

    Adding some on here to keep them in one place.


    Spelling mistake: Not really a mistake, but Large Aircraft Crash Off Airport

    What the correct spelling should be: Aircraft Accident Off Airport - Large (or Code D or something of the sorts)

    Where the word can be found: Knowledge


    Spelling mistake: Scolded

    What the correct spelling should be: Scalded

    Where the word can be found: Scolded by hot liquid (https://www.missionchief.co.uk/einsaetze/483)


    Spelling mistake: Railway Embankement

    What the correct spelling should be: Railway Embankment

    Where the word can be found: https://www.missionchief.co.uk/einsaetze/211 / 212 / 213 / 214

  • Medical Cycle Bike and Medical Mass Cass Trailer Missing Form HART bases

    Quote from TheNavalAuxiliary

    they should be possible to be based at HART IMO as back when SAS actually did cycle response it was SORT bases that stored them iirc, I'd rather not have to build an extra ambulance station just for some bicycles (even though it's mostly irrelevent in Scotland)

    I don't doubt that they had them stored at SORT bases but they weren't ever deployed from there. I expect they had a vehicle that they put them all in and forward deployed elsewhere.


    The great thing about the unit is that it's optional so if you don't want them, or they don't work for you, you don't have to use them. If you're also playing realistically then you've no need to worry about putting them in HART/SORT as that's not where they are deployed from.


    TL;DR We aren't putting them in HART bases.

  • Airport Rescue and Firefighting Update (RFFS)

    Quote from TheNavalAuxiliary

    just to be clear if it only qualifies as A and not B airfields then what is it an extra small lol

    That would still come under small. I wasn't going to split it any more than small/medium/large as it would just be too complicated for what it's worth. And besides, some of the Code B aircraft are more capable than one Code A.

    Quote from Whitchit

    Google "Aerodrome Manual" for whichever airport - I've found Bristol and Bournemouth airport manuals both list the appliances.

    Ooooh if only it were so simple. Unfortunately that works for some but not all. For example, Heathrow has no mention of their resourcing. A tweet a while ago that their AFRS put out has callsigns on. As for other airports, research, time and photos are going to be the best tools.