Manual

Chapter

Introduction

A remake of a popular emergency flight simulator

Maxis created a wonderful program called SimCopter. It placed the player in a helicopter flying around the cities made with Maxis SimCity. As a career pilot you had to fly around the simcities completing several missions before advancing to the next city. These missions included; transport a sim from one place to another place, medial transporting of injured sim to the hospital, aiding police, fire and ambulance to find criminals, fires and injured sims, and rescue operation. In SimCopter you would earn money for each completed mission and loose money for missions not completed. This money would be used to buy additional equipment and more advanced helicopter. As you completed each level the missions would increase in amount and difficulty. Faster flying would be needed to keep up with all the missions given to you. Not getting to a fire in time would result in a building being destroyed, not getting to an injured sim in time result in a sim death. Timing is everything and could result in a level not getting completed. The game would become very addictive and you could find yourself flying for hours. Maxis no longer make SimCopter but you can still find copies of it at www.amazon.com for under $5.00 dollars and it will run on Windows XP. There is a bug in the program, which causes the program to crash after running for a period of time, but I found that if you saved the game after each mission is completed the program will run fine.

Remaking of SimCopter to FSX SimCopter

I made this remake of SimCopter as a dedication to this wonderful program. I used the sound file that came with the SimCopter version I purchase from amazon.com I used FSX mission building to create several mission in a city. The first city is Westerly in Rhode Island. You as the copter pilot must complete all mission assigned to you in order to advance to the next level. At the completion of each level you will be instructed to return to the hanger. When you land you must be facing the hanger were a Certificate of Completion will appear inside the hanger. Write down the code number and keep it in a safe place. You will need this code number to unzip the next level.

Chapter

MISSIONS

What are missions

There are six different types of missions in FSX SIMCOPTER

1. Transports

2. Medical

3. Rescue

4. Criminal

5. Fire

6. Traffic Jams

All missions must be completed in order to complete a level. Missions will start off easy in the first level and increase in amount, time and difficulty with each additional level. There is no timing for how long a level will take to complete only for how much time certain missions have to complete. This will be explained in each mission types below.

As you progress through each level, the time between each mission will shorten. For example, in the first level after you complete a mission a short amount of time will pass before you are dispatched to the next mission, as you reach a higher level you will be dispatched to another mission before you even reach the first target of the mission you are on, and with each additional level you will be dispatch to several other mission while still flying to a mission target.

You will need to determine which mission is the most important to complete and pick which mission to go to and select it in your mission compass using the key number that you had selected to change mission targets.

B. Mission Types

1. Transports

There are two types of transport calls

A. Normal Transport

B. State Level Transport

Normal Transport

This is a simple sim transport mission. Locate the sim to be transported using the mission compass and take him/her to the location shown on the mission compass, which will appear after the sim is on board.

State Level Transport

This is high priority mission, which has a time limit to pick up and transport a state representative to an important meeting. This is a timed mission.

2. Medical

There are two types of medical calls

1. Medical Evac Requested

2. Victims seemed to be injured

Medical Evac

You are called for an emergency medical transport to the hospital. An injured sim is in serious condition and must get advance medical care ASP. This is a time mission

Victims seemed to be injured

You are called for an injured sim(s). Locate the injured sim(s), when the menu bar appears you will need to determine if you should call an ambulance to transport him/her or to transport the injured sim(s) to the hospital.

3. Rescue

There are two type of rescue

1. Overturned Boat

2. Tenant on Roof

Overturned Boat

A sim has overturned his/her boat and needs to be picked up and transported to land. You must get your copter close enough for the boated to climb on board.

Tenant on roof

A sim has got stuck on top of a roof and needs help getting down. You must land on the roof or get your copter close enough for the sim to climb on board. Then transport him/her to the ground.

4. Criminal

There are seven types of criminal activities. In all criminal activity calls a menu bar will appear. You can decide to pick up a police office and transport him/her to location or go to the location and call for a police car. If you decide to pick up a police officer you will be directed to his/her pickup site. If you decide to call for the police car, do not select anything from the menu bar, fly to the criminal location and when you spot the suspect then pick call for police and remain in area until the police car arrives.

1. Robbery

2. Robbery Armed

3. Robbery Driving

4. Arsonist

5. Mugger

6. Rioters

7. Speeder

Robbery

This is an unarmed robber who is no threat to you. Make your decision on picking up a police officer or calling for the police car. Remain with suspect until the suspect is apprehended.

Robbery Armed.

This is an armed robber. You must remain out of his shooting distance to prevent getting shot down and failing the mission or landing with the police officer to close to the suspect getting the officer killed failing the mission. You must remain with suspect until the suspect is apprehended.

Robbery Driving

The robber is driving a vehicle and you have been given his location. A menu bar will appear, when you locate the speeding car call for police assistant and keep up with the vehicle until the has police stop it. If you loose the suspect vehicle the mission will fail.

Arsonist

An arsonist has been sited. Make your decision on picking up an officer or calling for a police car. You will need to find the arsonist before he starts a fire. If the arsonist starts a fire, the mission will fail. Remain with suspect until the suspect is apprehended. This is timed mission

Mugger

A mugger has been reported. Make your decision on picking up an officer or calling for a police car. You will need to find the mugger before he injures a sim. If the mugger injures a sim, the mission will fail. Remain with suspect until the suspect is apprehended. This is a timed mission.

Rioters

A riot has been reported. Find the rioters. A menu bar will appear. Decide to use you megaphone, call for the police or call for a fire truck, to break up the rioters. Remain in area until rioters have been dispersed.

Speeder

A speeder has been reported. You have been given his/her location. Fly to the area and look for the speeding car. A menu bar will appear. When you spot the speeder call for the police and stay with speeder until the police stop the vehicle.

5. Fire

A fire has been reported and you have been sent to locate the fire. Find the fire. A menu will appear and you must to decide to either get water and put the fire out or call for a fire truck. Water can only be picked up from a water source such as a lake. This is a timed mission. If the fire destroys the building, the mission will fail.

6. Traffic Jams

A traffic jam may be caused from different types of actions. A menu will appear with a list of each emergency vehicle, ambulance, fire truck and police car. You will need to make a decision on which vehicle is needed to clear the traffic jam.

Chapter

Levels

WHAT ARE Levels

You must complete all missions to complete a level. After completing a level you will be given a Certification of Completion letter, which will appear between the hanger doors after landing at the hanger. You will need to write down the code number and keep it in a safe place until you download the next level. The download will be in a password protected zip folder. Use the code number to unzip the folder.

Each new level will increase in difficulty and advance to another city. There may be several levels assigned to one city to be completed before advancing to the next city. As you progress in your career you will also be assigned to a new helicopter. Two of the helicopters are already installed in FSX, other helicopter will be added to the zip folder. Most of these new helicopters will be provided by www.hovercontrol.com or from www.avsim.com as a shareware so you may already have it in your FSX folder.

Making levels for your city

I can make FSX SIMCOPTER levels for your city on request. Go to www.fsxmission.com and look in the forum for my

FSX SIMCOPTER or e-mail mail me and tell me what city you would like FSX SIMCOPTER to fly in. These cities will be added to the levels. For best performance please do not send me large cities, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and other large cities. Such large cities will decrease the frame rates. I have a pretty good system, but for best flying performance I like to keep the frame rate above 15fps.

Chapter

SUPPORT

If you have any questions or comments, please visit www.fsxmission.com or www.avsim.com

I will post a forum titled FSX SIMCOPTER. I will monitor these forums at least once a week. Please post replies here first.

If you need help with installation and do not get a reply from me at one of these forums then go ahead and e-mail me. Please only do this if you cannot reach me at the two web sites posted.