CombatWombat

I had some difficulty with this objective, too. I found by the time I got to the room with the keypad briefcase I only had a few seconds to disarm the bombs, and when I looked at the dead guy on the floor there was no 'search' option. (I was shooting at the hostiles from up on the mountain -- They gave me a designated marksman rifle! What was I supposed to think?) I restarted the mission and tried to get right to the base before going loud. Taking that approach I came around behind the mine and came around the main building clockwise, which brought me to the room with the (living) soldier and the civilian. Kill the soldier (the civilian appeared to die automatically!), examine the briefcase, examine the civilian's body and the code popped up on my screen. Enter the code and Bob's your uncle! Hope that helps, [CW]

The helicopter physics model is definitely simplified. It doesn't model torque, vortex ring states, asymmetric lift, rotor RPM and a whole heap of other factors which make choppers so difficult to fly in RL. Having said that, in my (RL fixed-wing but not rotary-wing pilot) opinion the ArmA Apache is probably pretty indicative of the actual aircraft. Going with data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft, the AH-64D has a maximum level speed of 143kts/265kph and g-force limitations of +3.5/-0.5 (compare that with +7.5g for an F-35B and +9g for an F-35A/C). If you're doing 150kts then you're travelling pretty close to its max speed. Think about going flat out in your car: You're not going to make it round a narrow right-angle corner at that speed, are you? Also a fully-loaded Apache weighs in at close to 10,000kg. It's a big vehicle and it's not exactly going to carve up the skies or pull a u-turn on a dime. In RL Apaches aren't about going fast, they're about going LOW (typically flying below 30ft in combat), and they're built accordingly. Flying it in ArmA, I find the Apache is most manoeuvrable at low-medium speeds. It also makes a difference how much collective (throttle in this context) you've got on: If you throttle back to zero you're basically gliding on momentum, so it becomes less responsive. Cheers, -=[CW]=-