Turret control while flying

[Ben Dover]

Simple thing is there a away to both fly a heli and have turret control the only way i could do this is in some helis you can look in the turret but your gunner has full control or the gunner needs to stop controling the heli in order to gain control of the turret then crashing the heli is there anyway to do i sort of alt look in the heli so you dont fly but at the same time control the turret or just not crash when releasing control if i have to rebind keys to control the turret it would work iam basicly just looking for a way to single crew helis and not just spray at the ao when i can laser missles

[Druark]

Are you asking to be able to fire the turret guns on helicopters or actually turn the turret and aim the turret whilst flying?

Firing the gun is as simple as enabling "Manual Fire" in your action menu, and then you should be able to switch to the weapon by cycling through them with F (by default).

Actually controlling the turret can only be done from the gunner seat though because how are you going to pay attention to where your going whilst looking through a turret camera? you can't and are just going to hit everything whilst flying assuming you don't accidentally fall out of the sky first. It's the same in battlefield, you can't one man pilot a helicopter because it's impossible and simply unrealistic.

If you want to get it to work the only thing I can suggest is looking for a mod which allows you to control the helicopter from the gunner seat as you can with tanks and other vehicles, this would allow you to fly and shoot the gun where you're aiming but I don't believe it'd be a fun experience.

[OOS1E]

Originally posted by -10K-:

Simple thing is there a away to both fly a heli and have turret control the only way i could do this is in some helis you can look in the turret but your gunner has full control or the gunner needs to stop controling the heli in order to gain control of the turret then crashing the heli is there anyway to do i sort of alt look in the heli so you dont fly but at the same time control the turret or just not crash when releasing control if i have to rebind keys to control the turret it would work iam basicly just looking for a way to single crew helis and not just spray at the ao when i can laser missles

Good question. It should be perfectly possible to put the aircraft in autohover and manipulate the gunner optics. I only managed this in one aircraft, the AH-6X Little Bird ULB from CUP.
You need a UAV terminal, then "Hack UAV" before entering the aircraft, then while flying from Pilot or Co-pilot seat, you can connect to the Turret view which allows you to look around with the gunner optic as well as fire the laser. Pity this does not have more weapons and does not work for other aircraft. Really cool for training/SP missions or small MP missions where one does not have a co-pilot.

[Christian1412]

Not optimal, but when you are on the pilot seat and have an AI as Gunner:
-set manuell fire
-when you as pilot look at an enemy, press T and the gunner will take aim for that enemy
-works with gun (+for Missiles turn on radar)

Problem:
-Without Radar the Pilot MUST see the target, so you must fly very close to the enemy and some targets are difficult to mark for the gunner.
(a bit easier in thirt-person)