DayZ / ArmA 2 - Helicopter tutorial - controls and emergency landing
45This is for all the players who fly helicopter like a drunk monkey using keyboard in DayZ / ArmA 2. First of all, you need to have analog controller to properly fly helicopter in DayZ. I have included most important things in this tutorial and hopefully it will explain a lot to beginners.
At end, I'm showing you the awesome emergency landing using auto rotation. I've been watching lot of DayZ videos (including frankie's and jack's videos) and all i see is noobs crashing their helicopters when getting shot into the main rotor, so at end im showing how to land disabled helicopter without blowing it up. It wasn't perfect landing, but i did land without blowing up the helicopter. (it's possible to land it without taking that much damage).
- Autorotation - YES this can be performed in real life, however in real life you do not land on the nose of the helicopter like in game, in dayz/arma2 helicopter tends to explode when landing it straight down using autorotation, so i landed it on nose. Also in reality autorotation is performed differently, by using the rotation of main rotor blades.
and yes I have piloted a real helicopter before, this is how I know so much about the controls and characteristics of helicopter. I have to say that ArmA 2 is quite close to real life, but still not 100% realistic, it is little bit simplified in game. I wanted to include plane-type landing, but it seem to be impossible in arma2, as soon as i hit the ground while moving, helicopter stops instantly and takes a lot of damage, in real life helicopter would just slide and stop slowly without taking any damage, that is fast landing when there is no time to slow down the helicopter before landing, which is quite easy to perform in real helicopter.
Heli Tutorial - you are here
Plane Tutorial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkY5DR2wz30
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