There have been numerous posts by myself as well as others in relation to firefighting aircraft in this sim and the limited nature of them and missions at the moment.
Upon scoping out the Virtual File System. I discovered that MS/Asobo do in fact have default firefighting equipment available for helicopters. This is a huge missing part of firefighting operations in the sim. This indicates MS/Asobo at some point considered or are considering using the bambi bucket they have put in the sim to be used on helicopters, but have not given the users the ability to use it on helicopters like the H125, B407, and others that equip this size bucket. While I realize, no mission sets exist for this yet in MSFS in stock configuration. The fact it’s just sitting there in the sim already, it makes me ask, can we have these configurations that use the bambi bucket added to those helicopters so we can at least use them in free flight? Since we users don’t have the ability to modify files in order to do this ourselves in the sim. It would be nice for MS/Asobo to at least do this in the meantime.
The Blackbird S-64 is essentially a useless paperweight in the sim at the moment and is the only firefighting helicopter. So it would be nice to at least get some bambi bucket configured helicopters in the stock sim. Again, like the B407 and H125 at least. The H225 and CH-47 use buckets too, but they are larger than the size that seems to be included at the moment in the sim’s base attachement files.
Unless someone else here more familiar with the sim’s file structure to issue a mod to give us this ability on the stock helos. I’d like to make a request on the wishlist for this addition.