helicopter control lock!!!

[hellstorm91]

i've been flying a transport helicopter with about 3-4 passengers in the back when ive came under fire from rifle men and .50 cal and so on basically my controlls have locked and i've crashed (well sort of i've died but 1 or two of my passengers survived) and all i get is a **** storm saying "heli fail" and "your a **** pilot" and a long list of other vulgar things its a pain in the *** because i just fly to where THEY tell me too and my tail roter got shot out or something like that

[joethepro36]

It happens. I somehow lost control of my chopper after take off for seemingly no reason at all 2 days ago, landed in the ocean and floated for a while.

As for the people inside, it's typical of your average pubber. I get flak all the time for dying in armour and air assets when I've clearly been performing the role correctly and killed/transported more than enough to compenstate for my loss. For example, about 1 hour ago I get told my squad is wasting all the apcs all round over and over. I'd been ingame for 7 minutes and killed 2 apcs for 1 loss, my other guys in the squad did the same. Apparently I'm still wasting them because I died.

So essentially, people can be dicks, you just need to get used to it.

[Mr Smiles]

Pff, played bf vietnam yesterday with all the supernatural skills and still i got called n00b and wernt allowed to fly in a huey slick.

[SevenOfDiamonds]

It simulates control failure. When you take enough damage the controles lock because the heli is damaged beyond flying. It gives people in the chopper a chance to live even when the chopper takes heavy fire. You don't always just blow up in mid air anymore.

AS for the people bitchin, if they have ever flown they have crashed too at some point, and if they have never flown then they have no say. esspecially with alot of new people and returning people you get stupid comments like that. People thinking they are just to awesome at a war game and when "war happens" in the game they have to blame someone. (Sometimes there is someone to blame but sometimes there isn't, but people will always find the easiest person to blame)

But of course if you can't fly don't fly, but if you can and get shot down and someone shoots their mouth off, tell them fly cause they apparently should be.

[Punkbuster]

Once I was flying a heli on muttrah, A trans huey and I was supposed to drop some people in one of the front outposts (The second one if I am not wrong) and in muttrah I fly low (at the beggining I was flying you know from the carrier then I went near the hills above the street you know... next to that factory) and for some reason my very cheap mouse moved to the right ingame but not actually and the chopper flipped and crashed!
So people started calling me things and next time I wanted to fly, I got kicked by an admin telling me to go fly in a training server!

Now that's lame!

[BabylonCome]

I hear you.....

I was once asked to drop a squad at the dock on Muttrah that had been overrun my the MEC and was crawling with APC's.... I refused to drop them there saying it was too hot and offered to drop them near north city instead..... they just gave me so much abuse it was unreal....

No matter how good a pilot you are, you WILL be shot down at times and getting grief for that can really wind you up...

[Rissien]

Your the pilot, you have ultimate say where you fly. You dont like where they want you to take them to, you take them to the nearest place you feel safe and they can deal with it. Better them walking a little extra than them all dead along with your chopper.

[hellstorm91]

It simulates control failure. When you take enough damage the controles lock because the heli is damaged beyond flying. It gives people in the chopper a chance to live even when the chopper takes heavy fire. You don't always just blow up in mid air anymore.

AS for the people bitchin, if they have ever flown they have crashed too at some point, and if they have never flown then they have no say. esspecially with alot of new people and returning people you get stupid comments like that. People thinking they are just to awesome at a war game and when "war happens" in the game they have to blame someone. (Sometimes there is someone to blame but sometimes there isn't, but people will always find the easiest person to blame)

But of course if you can't fly don't fly, but if you can and get shot down and someone shoots their mouth off, tell them fly cause they apparently should be.

it can be only 1 bullet from a AK 47 that can do it just place it well on the tail or main rotter and bang your out of control

whats even worse is the fact that i can get the heli close enough to the ground (under control) in control lock that its safe for the passengers to jump ........ but NOOOOOOOOOOO they hang tight and die then give me flack grrrrrrrrrrrr

[hellstorm91]

I hear you.....

I was once asked to drop a squad at the dock on Muttrah that had been overrun my the MEC and was crawling with APC's.... I refused to drop them there saying it was too hot and offered to drop them near north city instead..... they just gave me so much abuse it was unreal....

No matter how good a pilot you are, you WILL be shot down at times and getting grief for that can really wind you up...

in lots of maps stay LOW as they have hills and they will give you cover from most of the AA and APc's am i right????

ignore the moaney people behind you they have to walk from where you drop them its not your life on the line

on they flatter maps Stay at base until needed when flying fly high and Fast and locate hot zones and stay away

Basics

ohhh yeah the chinese scout chopper tilts up and to the right its annoying hope this helps

[Elektro]

Hellstorm, try to check your map before flying to the possition and imagine where the enemy forces will be looking.

The longest route is often the safest

Dont land exactly on the objective, the enemies will see where the infantry is and shoot them down faster than an f-16 on afterburner. Try to find a nice area 100-300m away...

[Brotigan]

As I remember, there was some interesting "control locks" before, like stuck pedals or heli become shaky and hard to control. Does anyone know why it was removed?

[wookimonsta]

I had similar problems in .87

I was flying me huey and took a decent deal of damage but managed to fly back to main and land it without trouble. the Huey got completly fixed, so I tried to take off, one second after takeoff though, the controls locked and I couldn't do anything but crash into the ocean.