Proper Helicopter Insertion and Extraction Procedures

[waldo_ii]

After being shot down transporting squads one too many times due to the transportee requesting a bad LZ, I decided to tell people how to do it right.

This is a tutorial on how to be inserted and extracted properly. It is my first major video project, taking me over a month to make.

The video was made in 1280x720 HD. Visit the video's Vimeo page to see it in HD.


On Tuesday an extended version of this will be up (Vimeo has upload restrictions), which contains extra footage of good (and bad) extractions/insertions, along with different music, different narration, and a section on supply drops.

[markonymous]

problem loading page... good idea anyways! can't wait to see the video.

[Rudd]

Really enjoyed it, good job


btw, was there a guy who is making a flash tutorial site for PR? He might wanna take a peek

[Spec]

Nice job, very well done!

Informative and has style.

[smee]

very nice, just love the idea squads moving to sensible LZ.

I must admit after spending the last few weeks practicing copter flying I appreciate how much pilots have to put up with. Slopes are just hell your so right. And how people don't know that little amount of damage can make it nearly act like a brick.

[Cptkanito]

Love the vid, problem with people is, it never works out like that, with some people in your squad u only just met at the start of the match.

[Celestial1]

Love the vid, problem with people is, it never works out like that, with some people in your squad u only just met at the start of the match.

But it can happen. If you have force and discipline.

[Neo_Mapper]

yeah nice tutorial, really clear and understandable =)

would love it if people would just do 50% of this. On pub servers it looks like this now:
some random squadleader of a 4man squad, which is spread over the whole map asks for extraction in the main base... the he says nothing for 2min and shoot with the minigu. After that, he maybe asnwers the question "where to?" with "Some where to action" or something similar...

[unrealalex]

yeah nice tutorial, really clear and understandable =)

would love it if people would just do 50% of this. On pub servers it looks like this now:
some random squadleader of a 4man squad, which is spread over the whole map asks for extraction in the main base... the he says nothing for 2min and shoot with the minigu. After that, he maybe asnwers the question "where to?" with "Some where to action" or something similar...

nightmare -_-

Or when you land people and they refuse to get out cause they want to go closer to the action....

[Tomato-Rifle]

Nice.

I would have liked to be in that video.

And btw "A confused pilot is a dead pilot" rolf XD

[waldo_ii]

Thanks guys, I appreciate all of the positive feedback. It took me about a month to edit this, and I am glad I took the time to do it right.

In a few days Vimeo will give me my 500mb back and I'll post the extended version (~15 minutes with credits). It isn't meant to be as instructional as this one (I went as far as removing the Tactical Gamer spinning logo from the beginning), but it is a little bit funnier and has more footage (A near-perfect insertion/extraction, and a very, very bad insertion and extraction).

Again, I appreciate all of the feedback. Thanks, guys!

[SprintJack]

Nice Video. Now just force people to work like that

[Sadist_Cain]

really good Vid

Just one problem, Try deploying smoke when the chopper isnt in visual range, see what happens (hint, it begins with no and ends in thing)

Because of this signal smokes are dam near useless and that pisses me offcos I love using them. To use them properly wait till you can hear the chopper or it's just on the horizon borderline then chuck

However because of the now (stupidly) long "smoke up" times, your smoke can is still a spazzing lil fluff ball by the time the chopper lands

[burghUK]

great video might make people realise just how hard it is to land in a hot uneven LZ.

[Kaifa]

Great video, very clear and I hope someone will learn from this.

[Rhino]

good vid, although its all pretty common seance it is surprising how many people miss lots of these points

[General Dragosh]

Superb vid Waldo

Hope to see another one

[dbzao]

Good initiative... keep it up.

[Gore]

Good video. Can you upload bigger videos to Vimeo than Youtube?