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I finally got access to a helicopter I got to keep after the mission was over. My first order of business was to see if I could save it in the 2 car-length spots you're given outside of your hideouts.

The first attempt, I was setting it down nice and easy. There is almost no room for error in this particular spot. There is a tree at the front of the spot and an awning at the back. As I was setting it down I chopped off the rotors on the tree and dropped the last few feet missing the spot. So I got out and grabbed somebody's car to push it in to place. Go inside, save, come out - VOILA! My OWN chopper! VICTORY!

Obviously I'm going to use this thing almost exclusively until I blow it up, so I'm going to go hang out with one of my contacts, Packie. Luckily he's waiting for me in relatively open intersection. I land and he jumps in, "This shit is fancy Niko! America has really gotten to you, huh?" We go see a show (I just land in the center of the street, blocking traffic).

When I go to take him home, I notice Packie's house is almost like a fortress against helos. Over the street are raised train tracks and the only way I can get under those tracks is to shoot a small gap in the trees, stay under the bridge and over a fence. Then I have to land without clipping too many lamps along the way. Seriously, if you could see this it's like a tiny little entrance with barely enough clearance for a chopper.

Anyways. I manage to get in and get out with only cutting down 2 lamp posts and bumping in to the fence I had to clear. But now my chopper is beeping alarm at me as if it's about to blow/crash. I sweep the camera around, seeing no sign of damage, smoke or fire and shrug it off. I fly back to my hideout to save the chopper in my space again.

As I'm coming in for a landing, this time I clip the tail section on the awning. THE ENTIRE tail section gets SHEARED off. My helo spins as it falls a short distance to the ground and the rotors are also sheared off. I push the helo into the space again and go up to save.

The helo wasn't saved this time...the game doesn't want me to be happy :(

Now I'm off to search for another one.
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