A Couple Questions Related To My Story

[Kittyhawk78 7]

The questions are at the bottom. The story below just give context for why I'm asking them.

So today was an interesting day. As I'm sure most of you do, I tend to go through a cycle of spawn, collect basic loot, be cautious, get well geared, get impatient, die, repeat. I went through this cycle a couple times this weekend. Had a full toolbelt, NVGs, Rangefinder, M4A1 CCO, DMR and a Ghillie, got one-shotted unconscious by a single zombie, and watched it eat me while my functionally retarded friend ran within feet of me a dozen times yelling "I CAN'T FIND YOU!" Next, after he'd also died, we're running for Cherno and notice a tent. I think to myself "Only a complete idiot would leave anything valuable this close to Cherno." Thank God for complete idiots. Two L85s, M4A1 CCO SD, DMR, Ghillie, tons of ammo, and a massive erection later we made our way up North checking vehicle spawns. We hit the NW Airfield and as we were cautiously crossing to the Hangars. I notice behind us, with my L85's thermal, a Ghillied player running our way. I watch him notice us, go prone and start aiming his MP5. As I begin firing at him, I watch him stand up, run 100m away, go prone, and log out. What a bitch. "Reaper" from US 1675, You know I'm talking about you. So we found the Skalka Ural in place and went back to the Airfield for parts. We came back and installed what parts we had and headed out again. I made it exactly three steps before what I think was a DMR shot took me out. Koon survived a few seconds longer. So if you were on US 1993 today and killed two guys near the Ural Civilian south of Skalka, well played, sir. Enjoy the loot as much as we did. So to end the night we decided to try to kit back up. We both spawn at the Airstrip and proceed to loot. I find an AK-74, Koon jumps over a fence and dies. He spawns in Kamenka, surrounded by the corpses of other players who didn't want to spawn in Kamenka. Following suite, Koon vaults over the railing of the lighthouse and spawns on the East side of Elektro. I run through Cherno to meet him and on my way out I hear the distinctive staccato of a helicopter hovering about 50m from me. So being newly spawned with nothing to lose and five AK mags to burn I take aim and open fire. I dump three mags into the cockpit and gunner's area, to what I thought was no effect, but after several failed attempts to land, I watch the chopper lose control and crash. "Mike From Statefarm" (I lol'd at your name by the way) if you read this, I'd like to know why you crashed the chopper. I looted the bodies for some impressive loot, M4A1 Holo and Coyote Pack among them, and headed off to give Koon his share of the spoils, massive skyward flames behind me.

So I said there were questions, and there are:

-Can You Damage The Helicopter With Small Arms Fire?

--If So, In What Way? Can Small Arms Disable It? Can They Punch Through The Hull and Hit Passengers?-

-Does a Chopper Crashing Cause Massive Fires In The Area? (As in can be seem from kilometers away)

-Is There Any Way To Turn OFF the Thermal/Nightvision on the L85 To Use As A Normal Scope?

Edited August 20, 2012 by Kittyhawk78

[Prendwick 7]

Thermal > Normal scope. You don't need a normal scope when you've got thermal.

[Kittyhawk78 7]

To a point, I agree with you. That thermal scope is the best thing since canned beans, I'd just like the option of not seeing in shades of red.

[NFK 102]

Is this going to be another "I shot down a chopper all by myself" threads? With no video?

Because we already have one of those.

[Kittyhawk78 7]

NFK, I don't know if I had anything to do with the chopper crashing or not, that's why I asked the question. Instead of being a Nard and accusing me of having delusions of grandeur you could answer my questions to help me better understand what happened. At the end of the day, it's all the same to me: I'm alive and got the loot. Whether or not I actually caused the chopper to go down is irrelevant. And please forgive me for not having video, I normally don't do anything Frapsworthy so I rarely have it running.

So to better describe the situation: I was on the small hill north of the big industrial building on the far east side of Cherno. The chopper flew in from the west, pointed more or less straight at me. They were low, probably no more than 25m (they were low enough that aiming down sight, zoomed in with the AK, the chopper was roughly as wide as my gun). The angle I was shooting from I couldn't see the cockpit itself, just the "chin" area on the front. The rounds that hit impacted here, and through the side door when they turned and tried to shoot at me with the door gun. I didn't get a murder or bandit kill so I know I didn't directly kill anyone. Assuming all my rounds hit (full auto on a hovering target, not likely) I fired a total of 85 rounds from an AK74 at the chopper. So to more accurately phrase my question: Is the chopper bulletproof or can small arms penetrate the non-glass parts of it? If so, do low health knockouts and other effects like that still effect the pilot while he's flying? The only way I can figure I caused the crash was that I hit the pilot enough times to either make his health low enough to pass out or knock him unconscious directly. Or maybe he was just a crappy pilot and crashed of his own accord.

Edited August 20, 2012 by Kittyhawk78