Blowin In The Wind achievement?

[Keno K]

How the ♥♥♥♥ do you get this one? I tried it with a mate, we shot out the engines and safely landed, from varying altitudes such as 70m - 199m. Any help on how to get this would be much appreciated. Like, we'd use the auto hover to land, but still no achievement? Is their a difference between auto-hover and autorotation?

[BoomerNoob]

I also had to try this one a few times for it to work. I think you have to land the helicopter without the skids breaking. Not sure about this, but in all the other attempts at least one skid broke.
We were using the Cobra on Anlao Valley. Friend shot me from C and I landed in the water below.

[Keno K]

Originally posted by BoomerNoob:

I also had to try this one a few times for it to work. I think you have to land the helicopter without the skids breaking. Not sure about this, but in all the other attempts at least one skid broke.
We were using the Cobra on Anlao Valley. Friend shot me from C and I landed in the water below.

I'm sure the skids didnt break for me, but I'll try it nonetheless

[BoomerNoob]

Good luck!

[Mashpit]

Autorotation =/= auto-hover.

From https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1218308600 :

If the engine is destroyed then you're helicopter will lose all power and you will be required to perform an autorotate in order to land. Autorotation is a helicopters ability to maintain flight despite a total loss of engine power due to air passing upwards through the main rotor and causing it to spin (like blowing on a fan). The effectiveness of this depends on how high you are with higher been better. Essentially the higher you are the further you'll be able to fly with autorotation although for transports I'd recommend landing at the first opportunity rather than attempting to RBT only to crash with an entire squad outside of the combat zone. The step by step guide for autorotation is as follows:
1. Lower the collective as much as you can to preserve the rotors RPM
2. Level out - tilting to far forward will not allow enough air through and your rotor will not spin
3. Select and landing (crash) zone
4. As you are coming into land, slowly increase the collective - you want to aim to reach max collective just before you hit the ground.

So basically, you need your engine to be completely shot out (red) to the point where it is no longer producing any power at all, and then use autorotation to land without turning into a fiery fireball. As far as I know, only RPGs, SAM missiles and concentrated DShK fire can completely disable the engine.

[ReV0LT]

Originally posted by Mashpit:

As far as I know, only RPGs, SAM missiles and concentrated DShK fire can completely disable the engine.

Isn't small arms fire just as capable, though it'll be harder?

[BoomerNoob]

Originally posted by ReV0LT:

Originally posted by Mashpit:

As far as I know, only RPGs, SAM missiles and concentrated DShK fire can completely disable the engine.

Isn't small arms fire just as capable, though it'll be harder?

RPD worked, but it took a while.

[Keno K]

Yeah, we were using a DSHK to no avail, like the engine would get disabled, but no achievement

[{JSA}OFFICERMARIO]

Originally posted by Mashpit:

Autorotation =/= auto-hover.

From https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1218308600 :

If the engine is destroyed then you're helicopter will lose all power and you will be required to perform an autorotate in order to land. Autorotation is a helicopters ability to maintain flight despite a total loss of engine power due to air passing upwards through the main rotor and causing it to spin (like blowing on a fan). The effectiveness of this depends on how high you are with higher been better. Essentially the higher you are the further you'll be able to fly with autorotation although for transports I'd recommend landing at the first opportunity rather than attempting to RBT only to crash with an entire squad outside of the combat zone. The step by step guide for autorotation is as follows:
1. Lower the collective as much as you can to preserve the rotors RPM
2. Level out - tilting to far forward will not allow enough air through and your rotor will not spin
3. Select and landing (crash) zone
4. As you are coming into land, slowly increase the collective - you want to aim to reach max collective just before you hit the ground.

So basically, you need your engine to be completely shot out (red) to the point where it is no longer producing any power at all, and then use autorotation to land without turning into a fiery fireball. As far as I know, only RPGs, SAM missiles and concentrated DShK fire can completely disable the engine.

It's pretty much what he said. To get the achievement, you just have to walk away from the landing after the engines have died on you from a certain height. You can even land out of bounds and still get the achievment. Although I suggest waiting until a few seconds before you touch to quickly raise the collective to hover just above the ground for a second or two.

[Hans Gruber]

Take the loach on Resort over by the lighthouse and turn on auto hover above 50m. Have a friend disable the engine using the nearby dshk and land in the water.

[Keno K]

Originally posted by 9./JG52 Hans Gruber:

Take the loach on Resort over by the lighthouse and turn on auto hover above 50m. Have a friend disable the engine using the nearby dshk and land in the water.

That's what we were doing unfortunately

[Kets]

Autohover is not autorotation, all you guys need to do is drop your collective all the way down when your engine dies, pull your nose up a bit and let the airflow put you down slowly.