Random Helicopter in a field?

[BongdongchongGhost 12]

ok so i was using my map to head to devils castle and all the sudden. BAM helicopter on my map 500meters away from me. so of course i ran to it, it was fully working full fuel all parts green. i flew it for awhile then died because of a invisible wall. but how :S i thought all helis needed to be repaired?. this heli spawned on the map when i was running it had nothing in its back. was this a bug? or a hacked in chopper

[ThatGuyCalledReptile 314]

Heli's can spawn repaired. It's very rare but possible.

[Falcrist 119]

It was either hacked in or someone very careless was using it. My guess is that it was hacked in.

[Nimz41 105]

You my friend, Got extremely lucky! As my friend above said it is very rare

[aussiestig 681]

There is little way to find out if a hacker spawned it in or not.

My story went like this.

We spent a whole night fixing up a heli, and flew it to fill it up. Once we'd filled it up we decided we better head off to bed, so we left it way up north. We came back the next day to see it was still there, so we headed off. After flying over some camps, writing down co-ords we decided we'd start raiding them, as I came in to land suddenly the entire server of only 7 people died, except BroBro. We were extremely mad we'd only flown our baby for half an hour and I went out to dinner while they headed up to raid these camps by foot.

I came back from dinner expecting they'd found some good shit. They did, and they'd filled it all into a Ural, and they were heading to pick me up. I spawned in and I was at elektro. I wanted a Kamenka spawn so I ran over a little hill near that petrol station on the west side of town, and there it was, a helicopter. I ran over to it but I was confident that it would need to be repaired again. It didn't. Everything was fully green, and it had a full tank of fuel. Needless to say, I took it and I honestly don't care whether it was hacked in or not because a hacker killed all of us and destroyed our helicopter.

We found 2 more busses, a tractor, and 2 more camps before the server reset and we lost it. We honestly weren't that mad though because it became very clear how unreliable helicopters are in DayZ. Hackers get mad and kill you, and server restarts can end all your hard work in seconds.

tl;dr. hacker killed us and destroyed our heli, I spawned in later that night and there was a heli 50 meters from my spawn point.

Edited August 4, 2012 by AussieStig

[Buffjesus 357]

people were flying

server reset and was put there; as it was the last place it was on ground and everybody was out of it.

theres no magical rare spawn of a 100% fixed chopper, no hackers, no special mojo

server reset and it was put there

Edited August 4, 2012 by Buffjesus

[Killlg 5]

people were flying

server reset and was put there; as it was the last place it was on ground and everybody was out of it.

theres no magical rare spawn of a 100% fixed chopper, no hackers, no special mojo

server reset and it was put there

This pretty much sums it up.