Player guide

Locks, keys, camo and paint

Small aircraft lock with a key, big ones with a vanilla code lock, and anyone with a lock pick kit can try their luck. A camo net hides a parked aircraft with everything in it. Server settings can change the numbers below.

Which lock does my aircraft use?

What a lock does

A locked aircraft refuses boarding, automatic seating, seat changes, engine start, and access to its cargo, ammunition containers and parts. Anyone already inside can stay and can get out.

Holding the key or knowing the code doesn't let you straight in. Unlock first, then board.

Model keys (Mosquito, MH-6, AH-6)

1. Land, stop the engine and wait for the rotors to stop.
2. Take the matching key in your hands.
3. Stand outside, within 2.5 m of the middle of the aircraft.
4. Hold Lock helicopter or Unlock helicopter for about three seconds.

• Keys are per model, not per aircraft. Any MH-6 key opens every MH-6, no matter who locked it.
• A fresh aircraft starts unlocked with one matching key in its cargo. Take the key out before you lock it.
• Each lock or unlock wears the key by 10% of its health by default, so a new key lasts about ten uses.
• A ruined key doesn't work and can't be repaired by anything. If the last use locks the helicopter, you'll need another matching key or a lock pick kit.
• Spare Mosquito and MH-6 keys are rare loot. AH-6 keys are very rare.

Code locks (Black Hawk, Gazelle)

1. Land, stop the engine and wait for the rotors to stop.
2. Close every door.
3. Fit a vanilla code lock with a battery at the lock door: the left sliding cabin door on the Black Hawk, the left rear passenger door on the Gazelle.
4. Set a 4 to 6 digit code at the keypad.

One lock protects the whole aircraft. The right code opens it, and so does a flat lock battery. Occupants can always get out. These aircraft don't use model keys.

Breaking in: the lock pick kit

Combine a Lockpick with a whole Electronic Repair Kit to make a single-use Helicopter lock pick kit. A bare lockpick doesn't work.

Use it from outside a landed, stopped aircraft. On a code-locked aircraft, use it at the lock door.

Those are the defaults. A finished attempt uses up the kit, whether it works or not. If you cancel part-way, you keep the kit.

Ignition keys (some servers)

Servers can also turn on an older ignition-key system. It stops the engine starting, not boarding or cargo. If a server runs both systems, both apply: unlocking access doesn't clear an ignition lock.

Camo nets

Hide a parked helicopter under a vanilla camo net.

1. Park, stop the engine and wait for the rotors to stop.
2. Get everyone out. The aircraft must be standing still, not wrecked and not burning.
3. Hold a camo net and use Cover with camo net on the aircraft. Or, with empty hands, use the same action when a net is stowed in the aircraft's camo net slot.

The helicopter is replaced by a covered shape under the net. Everything aboard stays with it: attachments, cargo, fuel, damage, paint and locks.

To get it back, stand at the net with empty hands and hold F (Uncover). The aircraft comes back where it stood, exactly as it was.

Paint

Aircraft spray cans come in ten finishes: Stock, Olive, Tan, Grey, Black, White, Woodland, Desert, Urban and Winter. Stock puts the aircraft's original finish back. A full can paints two aircraft, and cans are found as military and industrial loot, often part-used.

Paint is saved with the aircraft and stays on it under a camo net.

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