Throw/Drop satchel charge from a chopper?

[A-SUICIDAL 11]

Wouldn't it be cool if - instead of having to land and get out and run over and place the satchel near an object that needs to be destroyed - if you could simply throw a satchel out the window of a Littlebird or Blackhawk chopper while still flying and then detonate it. I searched around and found nothing like this anywhere for Arma 2. I'm guessing it would be a little difficult to script. I'm kind of busy tackling many other mission related scripts, so I thought I would come here and mention it just in case it has already been done before and maybe somebody could point me in the direction of where I can find a script that already does this. If I can't find anything like it I will start trying to script it myself.

When I used to play BF2, players used to throw mines and C4 out the side door of the Blackhawks all the time, so I thought it would be cool to be able to do the same in Arma 2. That's all.

[kylania 546]

You can't shoot from vehicles in ArmA2 so you certainly can't deploy explosives from them. You can however script just about anything, but you'd generally have to fake it all. If you're flying and drop a satchel you'll be out of detonation range very quickly, so you'd probably just spawn the item, let it fall to the ground and somehow blow it up via scripting instead.

Here's what I used to drop a wall (10 grenades) of CS gas from an AN2:

addAction on plane:

this addAction ["Release CS Gas","an2CS.sqf",[],1,false,true,"","(driver _target == _this)"];

an2CS.sqf:

_plane = _this select 0;
_pilot = _this select 1;

{
_obj = "ACE_M7A3" createVehicle position _plane;  
[_pilot, "", "", "", typeOf _obj, "", _obj] call SLX_XEH_EH_Fired;
sleep 0.5;
} forEach [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];

[A-SUICIDAL 11]

Thanks kylania.