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L1 Rescue and Return Lifepod

Now updated to use non-modded components! Now has a diesel-electric setup, with an additional economy mode for longer trips. Carries about 750L of fuel so you can still squeeze a decent range out of it.

Seats 3, with built-in heaters, bilge pump, scuba gear, forward camera w/zoom & nv, gps position broadcast for rescue, microphone and loudspeaker with radio channel selection, a deployable anchor and depth display, and a GPS waypoint following autopilot for easy trip planning.

Has a top speed of about 60kph

"Broadcast location" switch toggles broadcasting of lifepod gps coords on up to 10 frequencies, X and Y pos are sent in composite channels 1 and 2 respectively.

The same channel selector allows for voice to be broadcast on the same frequency as the gps coords

The anchor has a 20m max depth, you can use the depth gauge on the left of the cockpit to find somewhere to set down to ride out a storm.

Autopilot doesn't currently disable after the last waypoint is hit - just press 2 to toggle autopilot when you hit the last waypoint. Something to fix for later.

Starting the generator - just turn the "start generator" key when the main drive batteries are below 100%

Uses the waypoint microcontroller from Jacco: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1793949233

and Tajin's autopilot: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1584578096


(will edit all this later)


Here's a video of it puttering around.

https://streamable.com/v2ljy