How can i spawn a helicopter with engines on?

[Matthijs 40]

I want to spawn a helicopter in mid-air, with the engines running. How do I do this?

I tried using "MyChopper engineon true", but it needs about 10-20 seconds to start. I want the engines to be running full-power, right from the start.

Also, I would like to know how I can start an airplane with retreacted gear. Currently, I see the gear retract right after spawning the aircraft.

NOTE: I'm not talking about the start of a mission. I want to do this halfway through a mission, using createvehicle for example.

[sanctuary 19]

You can always try to use some tricks to solve this problem.

Create the chopper in a far away island , then teleport it with a setpos where you want it to appear in mid-air (of course, teleport it AFTER those 10-20 seconds necessary for the engines to be completly on).

This way , the chopper will appear in mid-air with its engine on and will not fall

[Harnu 0]

Or keep a few extra choppers already in mid air and then you can instantly transport them.

You could loop a script to give them full fuel to stay airborne until the time they are transported.

[SWIFT88 0]

choose the helicopter, and look at the tab which says in formation. change that to flying and then press ok.......  

[bn880 5]

choose the helicopter, and look at the tab which says in formation. change that to flying and then press ok.......

You don't have a TAB in a script man.

[redface 1]

since it is indeed very cpu-intensive to have one or more flying helicopters at a distant corner of your map, you could try setpossing it at a sufficient height. With spawned planes it only takes 150 metres to catch up (and it does look quite spectacular), with choppers it looks downright silly.

[bn880 5]

So basically I don't know how you can spawn one with engines on, but I know you can spawn one and set pos it for a bit, for it to spool up. Otherwise give it a very strong setVel boot.