How to keep my chopper at 3000 metres?

[Puupertti Ruma]

I'm doing a mission where a chopper flies at high altitude and 3 black-op dudes commence a halo drop from it. I used the setPos to move my chopper to 3000 metres, but it doesn't go to the next waypoint, it starts to descend. I typed "this flyInHeight 3000" to the activation field of the waypoint with no effect.

And while I'm at it, could someone please tell me why on earth every thingie come to a stop when they reach a waypoint, and after that they carry on normally. I have v. 1.90.

[CrashnBurn]

According to the Official Command Reference I have, accepted flyinheight values for helos is 50 to 1000 meters, but I've never been able to get them to fly waypoints at anything over 150.

[Ranger]

You need to put your code in the chopper's initialization field instead, or else specify the chopper's name, not this, in the waypoint's code.

For example, if your chopper was named chopper, your code in the waypoint would instead be the following:

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chopper flyInHeight 3000
As CrashnBurn pointed out, 3000 might be beyond the accepted value range.  But, try it and see if it works.  Just to let you know, I think 1,000 meters is a realistic HALO altitude, in terms of from what altitude real operatives jump.  At least, that's what my brief research revealed.

[Puupertti Ruma]

I lowered the altitude to 1000 metres and typed 'chopper' instead of this on all fields. Now the chopper doesn't descend, but it flies happily to the first waypoint and then starts circling around it. It seems that the actual waypoint is approximately 50 meters from the ground, and because of the 'flyinheight' the chopper cant descend and thus never will reach the waypoint.

[Ranger]

Having never forced an aircraft to fly at 1000 meters and hope it could reach a waypoint, I have no idea if that would work.

Is there something that prevents you from putting the waypoint beyond the designated HALO jump point?  In other words, just have the chopper fly across the jump point and have the infantry jump at that point.  That way, you don't have to wait for the chopper to stop and hover over the waypoint, which, as you observed willnever happen.