Tartan AS365 Dauphin Arma Reforger Mod

## Add Tartan Dauphin Kit FRIES as well **This mod on its own has no fast rope, sling hook or door gunners.** They come in its companion, **Tartan Dauphin Kit FRIES**: F.R.I.E.S. (Fast Rope Insertion Extraction System), sling hook and door gunners. Subscribe to both. https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A8B6BEF1818DCD3 The Airbus Aérospatiale, AS365 Dauphin: a fast, twin-engined, ten-seat helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor, a cockpit modelled on the real aircraft and lit for night flying, and its own engine and rotor sound. ## Highlights - Three versions: 658 Squadron AAC (UK special forces), Royal Navy CASEVAC (casualty evacuation) and Hungarian Special Forces. - Six working doors: hinged cockpit and front cabin doors, sliding rear cabin doors. - CASEVAC fit: two stretchers, medic seats, patients treated in flight, a medical trunk. - Rescue hoist, cargo net, repair and refuel points. - In Game Master under Vehicles > Helicopters, and on sale at Conflict helipads: the 658 Squadron version on the US side, the other two on every side. - Overrides nothing in the base game. ## Optional features Pick one kit, the one for your fast-rope mod, and add the mods it needs: - **Tartan Dauphin Kit FRIES** (above): needs Physics Rope, BFS F.R.I.E.S Reforged, Skyhook and SHS Fly Drive-by. - **Tartan Dauphin Kit Fastrope**: the same, with Fastroping. Needs Fastroping, Skyhook and SHS Fly Drive-by. https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A8B6BEF1818DDE1 Never load both kits. With a kit you do not need the single companions (Tartan Dauphin Fastroping, Tartan Dauphin Skyhook). These can be added beside a kit: - ACE Medical items in the CASEVAC: Tartan Dauphin ACE Circulation (https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A8B6BEF1818DAF8) or Tartan Dauphin ACE Breathing (https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A8B6BEF1818DD6A), with the ACE Medical mod of the same name. - British Forces' UK faction: Tartan Dauphin Brit Forces (https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A8C2D42181363CD), with British Forces. - The REAPER RHIB on the sling hook: Tartan Skyhook REAPER RHIB (https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6A8B115418199354), with REAPER RHIB. ## How to use them Each switch is on the overhead console, the panel in the cockpit roof: look at it from the pilot's or copilot's seat. Pilot and copilot: whoever starts the engines has the controls. To fly from the other seat, look at the top of its control stick and use **Take controls**. **Sling load** (Skyhook) - Hover more than 3 m up, with the load within 20 m of the belly hook. It must be Skyhook-ready and no more than 1,700 kg. - Pilot or copilot: **Hook sling load** on the overhead console. When it cannot hook, its label says why. - Hook in the hover, never on the ground: a load hooked on the ground drops off at take-off. - **Release sling load** at the same switch drops it. The pilot can also use Skyhook's key, Home. **Fast rope, F.R.I.E.S** (Physics Rope, BFS F.R.I.E.S Reforged) - Pilot, in the hover: **Deploy F.R.I.E.S** on the overhead console. - Passengers: open a cabin door on your side, then **Board F.R.I.E.S** from a cabin seat. - On the rope: S slides down, W climbs, A and D move across. You let go at the bottom by yourself. - To get back in: keep climbing with W past the top of the rope. - Pilot, once the ropes are clear: **Retract F.R.I.E.S**. **Fast rope, simple** (Fastroping) - From a front seat: **Prepare FRIES** on the overhead console. - Open a cabin door, then **Deploy Ropes** at a sliding door. - Passengers: **Fastrope** at the rope, with the cabin door on that side open, in a hover above 8 m. - When done: **Cut Ropes**, then **Retract FRIES**, on the overhead console. **Door gunners** (SHS Fly Drive-by) - Open the sliding door on your side. - From a cabin seat, press U, or use **Get in** at the open doorway. You fire your own weapon. - H straps the harness on or off. U again sits back down. - The door cannot be closed while a gunner is in it. ## What the sling hook can lift Up to 1,700 kg, with Skyhook: the S105 car, M151A2 jeep, S1203 van and the UAZ-469 and UAZ-452 (1,650 kg); the REAPER RHIB with Tartan Skyhook REAPER RHIB. Not the Humvees (over 2,300 kg). ## For server admins Load the mod anywhere after the base game. Load each companion after the mods it connects. Built and tested on Arma Reforger 1.8. ## Credits - 3D model: "Airbus-Helicopter S365 Dauphin" by helijah (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0, reworked for the game. - Sound: AS365 and MH-65 recordings from YouTube, used with permission. - Font: Noto Sans by Google, SIL Open Font License 1.1. Thanks to 3 Commando Brigade and Commando Helicopter Force for teaching me how to play. This mod is dedicated to them. ## Licence CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0): you can share and adapt this mod freely if you give credit. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Please post bug reports and ideas in the comments.