
For this reason I prefer to drive an Ada as it handles cross field journeys the best (plus, as you're keeping your speed low, it doesn't matter that it's slow af). Remember it might have just spawned in, or it could be a couple of minutes away from spawning out. When you spot a crash, get to it as quickly and directly as possible. If you have NVGs the smoke is just as easy to spot at night. Remember that it might be close, or it might be away in the distance. It's easy to see because apart from players and infected it is the only thing that moves in the landscape. In time you'll learn exactly where each site is and be able to spot even non smokers, but start by just looking for smoke. It might be behind trees and was blowing east or west the first time you looked and so wasn't visible, but then you look again and this time it's blowing straight up and easy to see. For this reason keep scanning ahead, left, right, behind the whole time to maximise your chances of seeing it. The smoke blows straight up, then to the west, then to the east. Sometimes you'll see the whole smoking helicopter sitting in the middle of a field, other times you'll see the top of a smoke stack peeking out from behind trees. I know those are low speeds but you need to stick to them for two reasons: you're looking for helicopters not trying to complete the loop as quickly as possible, and secondly game crashes or lag crashes eat up time that should be spent searching.ĭrive in third person, and continually move the camera from the front, to left to right, covering both sides of the road, and also looking directly behind you, to catch any that spawned in just after you passed. Drive at 30kph outside of towns, but drop your speed down to about 20kph when in towns.

Start - ZAPRUDNOE ~ Novaya Petrovka ~ TOPOLNIKI ~ Vavilovo ~ LOPATINO ~ Vybor ~ KABANINO ~ Grishno ~ ZAPRUDNOE - Finishįrom start to finish the entire route is on 'yellow' main roads and should take you about 30-40 minutes to complete, not counting time you spend when you find crash sites. If you follow this route you will be driving past 40 potential helicopter spawns, that will be visible from your car if they are smokers. I made it as close to a loop as possible, so you can join it anywhere you want.

Once you've got a car up and running try the following route. They only last somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes at each site, so if you're walking you aren't covering enough ground fast enough. I then spent as long as it took finding a car using the spawn points in iZurvive. To start, I loaded up with food, water, duct tape etc, and also a car battery, radiator and spark plug, and then loaded in to a low pop persistence off server. If you want to find helicopters rather than just look for helicopters then you need to put a bit of groundwork in first. I thought I'd share my method with everyone and see if anyone else has thoughts on improving it.
DAYZ STANDALONE HELICOPTER CRASH SITES TRIAL
These sites are highly sought after because they spawn the rarest weapons available in the game, such as the DMR and M249 SAW.After lots and lots of trial and error, I think I've got my helicopter hunting strategy as tight as is possible on Dayz. The locations of the crash sites vary for each server. Helicopter Crash Sites can be found in various locations throughout Chernarus and are most commonly found on open fields or on hillsides. Click on the ‘lock’ or ‘unlock’ button and it will lock or unlock the vehicle. To lock or unlock a vehicle such as a car, truck, boat or helicopter, all you need to do is approach the vehicle and press the spacebar. The differences are the one for DayZ Standalone will be retextured and its physics will be set more to DayZ’s standards. This heli is based off of the “Little Bird” in Arma 2. Little Bird (Military Helicopter): This chopper is said to be the first entry into aerial vehicles for DayZ Standalone. The server could crash and your entire base will disappear, or your server will never crash and you’ll keep your base for 2 whole months.

DAYZ STANDALONE HELICOPTER CRASH SITES OFFLINE
That’s it: Now you can play DayZ Expansion offline in singleplayer, have fun! (083 093) – in the abandoned town of Kumyrna. (134 039) – close to the Rify shipwreck site.

They could be found in the following places: (040 130) – in the swamp area south of Balota. Where are the helicopter crash sites in DayZ?
