HELIPICK

Your girl friend has left her beach towel on top of the UN building, where
she apparently had been sun bathing. Your job: go pick it up with your
Blackhawk helicopter. Start from your local baseball diamond, head towards
Manhattan and the UN building (which, curiously enough, now seems to be on
the wrong side of the East River), pick up the towel, and start back. Take
off again *right away* -- the security guards are on their way. It's
her favorite towel, and you will earn her undying gratitude and who knows
what else.

You have a little leeway here: get fairly close to the towel and our
magic SI magnet will bring you down with a "boing". When you take off
again you'll see (in spot view) the beach towel fluttering out of your
right hand window.

Take a look at the whole proceeding or parts thereof from the top of the 
Empire State building -- CTRL-F4. CTRL-F3 will give you a following view,
and of course you can use SPOT and BOMB TARGET views.

Oh, on flying the Blackhawk:
With either joystick or mouse, press button 1 and push forward to increase
speed, pull back to decrease speed.
With no button pushed, pull back to increase altitude, push forward to
decrease altitude.
Left and right turn as usual.

I myself find the heli much easier to control with the mouse -- you can
get some pretty fine-tuned movements, especially necessary to maintaining
a heading.

I didn't bother to include a film with this one: it's too easy and I
couldn't show off my flying skills.

If you haven't done this before:
1. Be sure HELIPICK.SET is in your /SETS subdirectory.
2. After entering Stunt Island, choose SET DESIGN and load HELIPICK.SET.
3. FLY STUNT, Action, TAKE . . . . 
4. If you like what you saw, save out the take (HELIPICK.TKE etc.) with
PRINT FILM or THAT'S A WRAP.
5. Just view the HELIPICK.TKE file in the theatre, or, if you're especially
pleased with your flying prowess, EDIT it into a film.

Jim Ross 70235,143