Passengers and Cargo animations for Freeflight

Hello,

With the addition of Career Mode, a fantastic feature has been introduced: Passengers and Cargo animations for certain missions. This significantly enhances realism, and it would be great if this feature could be extended to Freeflight mode.

Here’s how it would work:

EFB Option:
On the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB), you would have the option to choose how many passengers and how much freight you’d like to load onto your aircraft. Once you’ve made your selections, simply click “Board,” and the passengers will begin boarding, alternatively:

Before you start your flight, you can set the number of passengers and cargo. When the flight begins, they will automatically start boarding.

  • Boarding Process:
    • From a Jetway: Passengers will spawn and board the aircraft through the jetway.
    • From a Bay:
      • A bus could spawn, and passengers would begin boarding through the stairs.
      • Alternatively, passengers could spawn directly near the stairs and begin boarding.
  • Bonus Option:
    In the EFB’s settings menu, you can choose whether passengers remain seated in the plane (they will despawn when you close the door to reduce lag and FPS drops) or if they despawn when entering the cabin.

This feature would greatly enhance realism and immersion, reducing the need to purchase additional mods. Since the system is already implemented in Career Mode, I believe it would be relatively easy to integrate it into Freeflight.

If you have any more ideas or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to drop them down below
Thank you for your time! :blush:

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Come on guys!

This is already implemented in free flight, but it is bugged. It only sort of works with a couple of planes.

You can load cargo in the C208 caravan from the EFB and it works almost every time. I’ve managed to spawn in passengers too (in the passenger variant) but this works only in certain conditions and haven’t yet figured them out.
I’ve also managed to let passengers board the A320 in free flight and you will see them walking through the jetway into the aircraft but also this doesn’t work every time for some reason.

This would be good to implement, not only for fixed wing, but helicopters especially. Allowing people to do sling load practice in free flight, rescue hoist practice, even practice helicopter water pickups from snorkels/buckets in free flight. I also addressed this in a post about the S-64 not having any functionality in that respect. So I can see this as a huge advantage in both fixed wing and rotary wing users in free flight.

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Flew the Vision Jet last night. Was disappointed I was unable to load passengers in Free Flight mode. Any way we can let all planes load from all parking spaces? Don’t seem to have this issue with commercial aircraft at the gates.