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Greetings all. Apologies if this is a dupe, I know there is a similar post somewhere in here but the search gods are not being kind :/ I am creating a dawn helo insertion mission (mixed blackhawks and little birds) into Badango but I am running into a few issues ensuring that the helos (little birds specifically) stay low and fly between buildings to their insertion points. So far I have it working but it is incredibly fragile. Problem 1: Is there any method to stop helicopters jumping up to 50m from low level when encountering a TR UNLOAD waypoint? Problem 2: Is there a simple sane mechanism to reduce the radius for triggering a waypoint by helicopters, which is too excessive for getting an accurate flight path. So far I have had to extend the waypoint prior to the TR UNLOAD point ~100m past the landing zone so that it triggers at the right point, but this is amazingly ugly. Also this only works when the helicopter is moving in "Safe" mode. Any ideas are appreciated.

I stumbled upon this over at armaholic.com http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=797 Looks quite interesting, though havent tested it yet. Loops calculating required velocity vectors after working out distance vectors to a given target point, then uses setVelocity (at least thats what I gather from reading through the scripts, I'm still not fully up to speed on syntax etc) Will have to have a play with it... would still prefer control over waypoint activation radius but this may work around it in the short term...

I hear you there ;-) I am using the "invisible H" and have multiple waypoints with flyInHeight commands (for approach flare and land). Problem is the waypoints trigger from too far away so it is constant trial and error fighting with min/max times... syncing with triggers is near impossible to get right too... Would be real nice to have a simple waypoint activation radius option (is this controlled by the waypoint object or the helo object?), would fix all the issues... Wonder how hard it would be to code (being new OFP/ArmA editing I wouldn't have a clue...)