[starb?]

I believe the paramedic mod could be redone from the ground up to be a flight paramedic where you are a pilot and not a ambulance driver. This would take a simplistic mod and give it 'skill' on par with that of the police mod with having to focus on quality flying/landing.

Examples of such missions:

1. Fly to airport and pick up a organ on ice and fly it back to the hospital
2. Fly to accident scene and land in the designated landing zone with a spawned accident with victims, cops, etc nearby and render aid to the victim and fly them back to the hospital
3. Search and rescue where you try to find a missing person. You could land and approach the person or hit F3 to call a police car who would then take the person in custody with existing animations/code.
4. Aid a police chase below by following from overhead. Losing track of the subject loses the mission. Our local medical flight chopper has done this in my area as the nearest state police chopper is 150 miles away. Their reasoning is two fold: to help the police and offer their aid in the aftermath as it usually ends messy. The conclusion of a police chase mission could be land and offer aid to the injured or simply hit F10 to call a ambulance to the scene.
5. Medical situation on a boat.
6. medical situation at a remote corner of the map.
7. Officer down medical call in a semi unsecure area where you try to land and render aid and get the officer out as the police get into a shootout with criminals.
8. VIP flight where you give a VIP a tour of the city.
9. Maintenance flight where you take the chopper out to the airport for maintenance, refuel, etc.
10. Medical situation where a rooftop landing is used.
11. Med flight from hospital to airport or vice versa for a 'rush the patient off on a medical airplane flight or pick them up from a medical airplane flight'.
12. Medical call to the liberty island as ambulances cannot drive there

I could think of more but this is good enough for a starting point.

If a countdown timer could be added signifying fuel that would be a bonus. Say it reads '20:00' minutes and once you take off it counts backwards even with a '5 minute reserve (-5:00)' and through the course of your missions you need to manage that and land at the airport for a refuel (reset timer) or the chopper will stall/crash.

Thoughts?

[johnnygould?]

That sounds like a good idea to me. I would add a rescue mission in the sea, perhaps, where you have to fly over the water and save drowning people? Would that be workable?

I like your idea about having a realistic fuel tank, I think that will bring even more realism to the game and that's always good.