Wait... It Can Float?

[MoonFire]

@hobnob11 Never in my life i thought that Arma 3 would allow the Chinook to float on water, my mind is blown from this finding.

 

[Eagle-Eye]

That the heli can float boggles your mind, but that you weren't sliced into a dozen pieces when jumping through the rotor isn't worth a mention?

 

Okay ... 

[Minipily]

I dunno what update, possibly Apex but it seems all choppers can do it. It helps with emergency landings on waters too.

[BloodInTheSand]

I once bore witness to multiple attempts to load a RHIB inside a chinook after this discovery was made.

It did not end well

[Amentes]

Realistically, the Chinook can submerge about half the cargo area in water and not have a problem, but it can't "land", as in spooling down and floating. The same is the case for the Sea Stallion.

 

None of the other aircraft in the AWE fleet can do this. To partially submerge the cargo area on any of our other aircraft would also involve submerging parts of the flight control system, which isn't watertight in the slightest

[Johnson]

 

 

Shame you didn't include me getting left behind and

DROWNING

I wasn't dead I just ragdolled.

[Minipily]

I actually remember when EU3 first opened, we used a Chinook mod that involved you having to physically walk inside in order to get in and out of the positions. I had a crash once with it in the water and upon getting out, it placed me in the crew bay. The chopper slowly started roll upside down while I waddled through the water until it was fully upside down. It started to sink which forced me to swim but I couldn't squeeze out of the closed ramp area or rappelling hole, I subsequently drown 3 minutes after the initial crash. I miss that mod, way ahead of it's time in 2014.

[Johnson]

1 hour ago, Minipily said:

I miss that mod, way ahead of it's time in 2014.

So good - http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=25580

[TheToxicPixels]

oh this is cool