The South Australian Country Fire Service (and many other state and territories) contract water bombing aircraft which are supplied and operated by Aerotech for firefighting operations.
Aerotech use Air Tractor 802’s for fire, agriculture and marine oil spill operations. They are the most productive, quality built, single engine air tankers worldwide. They are fast, manoeuvrable, and operationally very effective.
Find out more info about the SACFS Air Operations here: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fire-brigade.asn.au%2Foperations%2Faircraft.asp%23802]https://www.fire-brigade.asn.au/operations/aircraft.asp#802[/url]
DISCLAIMER: There are a number of issues with this water bomber I am aware of. It's currently a WIP and is my first attempt at making one. I'll leave it up for the meantime and post updates as I can.
Current issues/changes I'd like to make:
- Custom door on bottom to drop water, this doesn't work for firefighting, will have to change to fluid nozzle system
- Battery and water tank fill level gauges stop displaying after a little while, these are currently segmented displays, may change to dials just to get them working. Still trying to diagnose
- Wings are about one block too high to jump on, use the handle to lift yourself up, may lower front wheels by one block, unsure yet
- Prop/Throttle integrated into the same control, may change this to a button to shift prop between neutral, positive and reverse thrust
- Still need to add a cabin light
- Add siren to kick in when dropping water (to alert anyone on the ground to get out the way)
- Add alternating flashing lights on front
I'll list other changes and issues as I find them or are commented.
