Turning engine on for a helicopter

[rejenorst 18]

Along with the this flyinheight 0 command I want the helicopter to keep the engine on after landing.

Was trying the engineon command but that didn't work,

whats the action command to have the (leader aheligroup) turn on the engine?

Thanks in advance. This has been asked before but it didn't come up in my search :(

does this work? (leader heligroup) action ["engineon", helicoptername]

[cobra4v320 27]

Try:

player action ["engineOn", yourvehicle]

[rejenorst 18]

Try:

player action ["engineOn", yourvehicle]

Thanks man, this command works as well as the one I posted above.

[cobra4v320 27]

Here is the ARMA list of actions.

[cobra4v320 27]

Rejenorst

Cant tell if your being sarcastic or if this helped.

[Padjur 10]

Not sure why you say engineOn doesn't work, I'm using

 _heli land "LAND";_heli engineOn true;

in one of my scripts without any problems.

[kylania 568]

How about the opposite? An AI controlled grouped vehicle that sits there with his engine off till it's time to move? action engineOff didn't work. I'll try the engineOn false; thing later though.

[Padjur 10]

If he's already on the ground when he starts I would put in his init line,

 this engineOn false 

a move waypoint just above the copper sync'd to a trigger with

 this engineOn true 

[rejenorst 18]

Hi Cobra, sorry I never responeded to your post. I wasn't being sarcastic, it actually worked. Thanks mate :)

[charliereddog 9]

For engine off I'd set fuel=0 until it's go time, otherwise I think they'll get all excited.

[rejenorst 18]

I find running a script that sets the waypoints for the helicopters works pretty well. basically when the helicopter gets within a certain distance of the lz on which I have coded its first waypoint I set the land command. Once it lands I can then use the engineon action and the heli will sit there nicely. When its time to go I delete the old waypoint and have a script create the next waypoint.

Works well for me. waypoint has to be on an LZ point and it has to be a load/unload waypoint I think. Also you can't code the heli to fly out to sea or anything, has to be on a landing zone object on land.