Getting a Blackhawk to hover over a point

[Oznerol256]

Hello Community,

I have an enemy command post. After neutralising the air defences i want a blackhawk to hover very low above the command post. After that the Blackhawk has picked up the important persons of the command post it would be nice if it returns to base. My problem is that i am not getting the Blackhawk hovering at low altitude at a certain point. Does anyone know how to do this?

[Jona33]

Place a waypoint over the position you want it to hover and then assign an advanced waypoint action of Orbit and set the speed and altitude to 0. Then stop condition, select Time and set it to whatever time you want, the format is HH:MM:SS/Day

[Oznerol256]

It works thank you! I noticed the Blackhawk will hover very low if no structure or vehicle is around. If there is one, it will hover much higher (three to four times). Another thing is that the heli will not hover exactly at the waypoint. In my case the heli hovers always a few meters south of the WP. But the precision is high enough to simulate a heli picking up an enemy commander.

[KosPilot]

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Edited July 20, 2012 by KosPilot
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[lrdangel]

Thank you for this post. I was always curious how to perform this task with an AI helicopter in the mission editor. I tested this in DCS World 1.2 and it worked very well.

 

~ LA

[StrongHarm]

This trick doesn't seem to work anymore. Apaches started spinning wildly and crashed into one another. Anyone know another way to make AI Helos go into a hover (without mods)?