Helicopter Overview

CZ Autoz Helicopter adds twelve aircraft, one of which players build themselves. Each one flies differently, takes damage differently, and comes in its own set of colour schemes. The tables below show them all side by side.

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Quick Reference

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Performance Comparison

The Ospreys’ top speeds are with their nacelles forward, flying on the wing. As helicopters they top out at about 222 km/h.

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Sling Lift Class

Every helicopter has its own weight limit for a load carried underneath it on a rope (sling.maxKg). Small helicopters lift small cars; the heaviest vehicles need the Chinook. If a load is too heavy, the hook-up action never appears. The UH-1H, Black Hawk and MH-47G Chinook have winch gear built into the model, which appears on the aircraft as soon as a load is hooked up; on the others the mod supplies the winch. The Merlin, both Chinooks and both Ospreys have two hooks — one at the front, one at the back — so long loads such as a lorry hang level instead of nose-down.

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All Spawnable Classnames

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Helicopter Cards

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Equipment Mounts

Every helicopter has an Equipment section in its inventory. Kit you put there is mounted on the aircraft where you can see it: on a cabin wall, or on the cabin floor where there is no solid wall to use (open-sided cabins and the small aircraft).

• Rifles and pistols from other mods fit too, as long as they are built on the game’s standard rifle and pistol classes, as most are
• A mounted item can be taken back from the inventory, or by looking at it and taking it to your hands or inventory, unless the helicopter is locked
• Mounted items are only for show and storage: they do not change how the helicopter flies

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Cabin Mode & Free Walk

There are three different ways a player can be on their feet inside a helicopter that is flying: Cabin Mode (UH-1H, MH-60L Blackhawk, MH-47G Chinook, CH-47D Chinook) — the pilot or co-pilot uses the Move to Cabin action to get out of their cockpit seat and walk about in the back. They keep normal movement, can use weapons and can aim down sights. Return to Cockpit puts them back in their seat — the one they left if it is still free, otherwise the other one. Server owners can switch this off for the whole server with crew.cabinModeEnabled = 0 in mod_config.json. The two Chinooks and the two Ospreys are the only ones you can stand fully upright in; in the others you stay crouched. Getting out into the cabin (UH-1H, MH-60L, AW101 Merlin, MH-47G Chinook, CH-47D Chinook, CV-22B Osprey, MV-22B Osprey) — passengers in the back use the normal DayZ “Get Out” action and end up standing inside the aircraft rather than outside, and they move along with it. On the AW101 Merlin this is true of every seat, pilot and co-pilot included, because the whole aircraft is enclosed. To actually get out of a Merlin you need an opening: the rear ramp, or (since v0.4.1) one of the two side doors. Both Ospreys work the same way — every seat, pilot and co-pilot included — and you leave them down the rear ramp. Walking on (UH-1H, MH-60L, MH-6 Little Bird, AW101 Merlin, MH-47G Chinook, CH-47D Chinook, CV-22B Osprey, MV-22B Osprey) — step into the rear cabin opening, onto the MH-6’s side benches, or onto the Merlin’s, Chinook’s or Osprey’s ramp, and you simply travel with the aircraft until you step off again. The Mi-24’s real-size troop cabin is too low to walk into: its passengers get in from the open cabin door, and get out onto the ground through it. There is no action to press. See Cabin Mode for the full detail on all three.

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Core Features at a Glance

• Built on DayZ’s own vehicle base — the helicopters are treated as vehicles by the game, so they save across restarts on their own and get on with other vehicle mods.
• Real flight physics — each aircraft has its own weight, drag and handling feel.
• Autohover — press X and the helicopter holds its height, heading and position for you.
• Pilot and co-pilot can both fly, one at a time — Transfer Flight Control (T) hands the controls between them without moving seats. The co-pilot seat can also work the ramp, landing gear and sling hook, use the chin camera and set GPS waypoints. On DayZ 1.30 the smoothest flying is from the pilot seat — see Flying & the Co-Pilot Seat.
• Full controller support — fly entirely on a gamepad, and rebind anything you like.
• In-game admin panel (F10) — teleport, repair, refuel, reset, delete, repair everything, reload the configs without a restart, a map view, and roles that limit what each admin can do.
• Six damage areas — body, engine, chassis, fuel tank, main rotor and tail rotor. Each can be switched off per server, and wrecks catch fire. On the twin-rotor Chinook the second rotor area is the rear lifting rotor, not a tail rotor, and on the two Ospreys the two rotor areas are the two proprotors.
• Autorotation — with the engine off the rotor keeps turning, so a good pilot can still glide down and land.
• Battery, repairs and fuel — CZ_HelicopterBattery to start it, CZ_HelicopterRepairKit to fix it, and refuelling either from a jerry can or at a working fuel station.
• Cargo — built-in storage, plus up to 10 extra cargo modules per helicopter, with the size of each module set by you.
• Working cockpits — live gauges and a GPS screen in every cockpit, a radar on five aircraft, terrain warnings on every aircraft and radar warnings on the radar aircraft, and a chin camera with thermal on nine. See Cockpit, Radar & Warnings.
• Autopilot with runways — pick a spot on the map and it flies there; with the server’s auto-land and auto take-off on, the Ospreys taxi, take off and land like aeroplanes on a runway an admin has marked. See Autopilot.
• On-screen instruments in thirteen HUD styles, fuel warnings, an activity log, and an automatic backup of your configs before an update changes them.

See Features for the full breakdown of every system.

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Mod Compatibility

CZ Autoz helicopters run on their own — you do not need Community Framework (CF) or any other framework. Each of the following is optional: the mod spots the other mod automatically and only switches the behaviour on if it is loaded.

• DayZ Expansion — helicopters count as Expansion vehicles, so safe zones apply to them, Expansion handles their damage and explosions, and Expansion saves them.
• MuchCarKey — lock and unlock, key assignment, owner name, and the option of needing the key to start.
• TraderPlus CarLock — the password lock menu, attaching and detaching locks, lockpicking and lock sounds.
• VPP Admin Tools — the /refuel command fully repairs and refuels the helicopter and clears every damage area.
• RaG Core — getting in and out, doors, deletions and weapon hits are written to RaG’s vehicle log.
• Community Online Tools (COT) — helicopters show in the vehicle manager, spawn with their doors on, and are included when you bulk-delete.
• Push — the normal push action works on a helicopter that is on the ground, tuned per aircraft.

For the equipment mounts, the mod adds its mount slots to the game’s first-aid kit, hatchet, crowbar and personal radio, to its own Helicopter Fuel Drum, Repair Kit, Flip Wrench and Helicopter Battery, and to its standard rifle and pistol classes. Nothing else about those items changes.

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Configuration

The mod writes all its settings out as plain JSON files the first time your server starts, under $profile:\CZAutoz_Heli\. Settings for individual helicopters live in the HeliConfigs\ folder — one file per colour variant, named <Classname>_Config.json, 49 files in all — next to mod_config.json, which holds the server-wide settings. Every value is explained in Server Config.