Wednesday's Question: Sky Crane Options

[Psy]

On the mission "Up, Up And Away!" you're instructed to break into an army base and steal a Leviathan helicopter which has a magnet attached to the bottom. Using that magnet, you're told to pick up an armored truck for part of the plan involving breaking the bank at Caligulas and fly it to the airfield. Quite a few people have asked if this helicopter can be gotten anywhere else but on the mission, but the answer is no. The helicopter is just a regular Leviathan with mission scripting to cause a magnet to be attached to the bottom. Without being on the mission and getting that specific helicopter you won't be able to find it anywhere else in the game. Even action replay codes cannot create this vehicle, well, so far anyway, but even if you were to get the helicopter outside of the mission, it doesn't seem strong enough to pick up any other vehicles. On the mission it can only pick up the armored truck and nothing else, if you try to pick up another car you just won't be able to fly at all. Having said that, you are actually able to deposit the helicopter in the hangar garage at the airfield at the end of the mission, rather than dropping the truck in the red circle, wait for the hangar to completely close, then blow up the truck to fail the mission and the helicopter should be saved, but other than that, there's no way to get it outside of the mission. Even if you do save it in the garage, it isn't strong enough to pick up many, if any other vehicles though.

[Kuwong]

i heard outside of the misson it could pick up motorbikes but thats it, i never tried, its strange that they would remove it after the misson if they scripted it into the game, but i guess it would of taken alot of programing to make it able to pick up all types of veichles, and i think it would of worked after the mission as the guide states that its there for your lifting needs. and thats one hell of a long sentence.

[Corrupt]

Personally I thought it would have been cool if they left the Magnet on. It would be freaking sweet by dropping cars on unexpecting peds.

[BrianRehmann]

Correct me if I am wrong but I tried to save it but when I came back the magnet was gone.....and I think it could pick up some cars.....it was awhile ago though.

I know for sure it picked up bikes because I took one to the top of the mountain to jump of it with a pcj.

[Guest_Albino_*]

Yeah, that would be awesome.

[Dynamix]

I suppose its the same for the car with the spike strips then?

[Tootsie_Roll]

Psy, i hate bursting your bubble but the magnet disappears after you save it in your hanger.

At least thats what happened to me and thats what happened to other peeps on the internet.

[Psy]

I just tried it about 2 minutes before posting and it worked, but I didn't save the game though, I just stored the helicopter there while i blew up the truck so it wasn't locked.

[Tootsie_Roll]

Well i got the heli stored it because i failed by acidently dropping the truck. Then the hanger door closed and the magnet was gone.

So i don't know what was going on.....

[GS2V4]

Loly pop is right I tryed to save it in my hanger,it stayed after the mission but if you reload the game the magnets gone.It sucks!

[themaguire]

It's at my airstrip, it jsut has no magnet anymore, when i landed it it stayed, so i tohught bonus, but when i flew the ploce maverk there from that breaking the bank mission didnt stay.

[smiler]

shame u can't get the magnet. I played a demo of mercenaries and that had a chopper with a magnet. it was well fun chucking cars around and stuff. [SIZE=7][COLOR=blue]

if this comment is messed up i'm sorry. I'm new to this okay. HI EVERYONE.

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[madmax144]

HI I WAS DOING THE UP UP AND AWAY MISSION AND I FOUND THAT I COULD PICK UP OTHER CARS IT WONT PICK UP LIMO OR THE BULLDOZER AND BUS OR BOATS

[gta-andreas_kill...]

[Neon™]

Yeah it sucked when I couldn't airlift my cars from LS to SF, but I later found that it was easier to keep them in the cities they were made in as opposed to driving 10 MPH to get them between cities alive.