Chisel’s Arma 3 workshop
Arma3 missions, mods, and development lessons learned the hard way. Mostly Helicopter related. Built by a pilot who’s still working on the landings.
01 / The workshop
Featured scenario
Altis / KavalaRace. Stay low. Beat the clock.
Race any helicopter through twelve hand-built routes in Kavala. Stay low and inside the course to beat the clock, then review your run from ten camera angles—including AAN News.
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Scenario / Practice
A repeatable helicopter insertion trainer around Kavala. Fly hot approaches under fire, get scored on survival, and replay every landing to see what happened.
View LZ Trainer on Workshop
Companion mod / 01
A live stick-cam overlay showing cyclic, collective, pedal inputs, and your actual keyboard presses — usable in any mission, not just the trainer.
View Flight HUD on Workshop
Companion mod / 02
Allows freelook and Track IR like devices look direction to be captured for replays. In replay pilot look direction and zoom match where you actually looked mid-flight, instead of staring rigidly forward at the dashboard.
View Replay Camera on Workshop02 / Field notes
Part explanation, part Altian folklore: the dubious history behind Kavala's low-flying helicopter race.
Read field notesEverything you need to race below the rooftops of Kavala, from your first start and route selection to scoring, replay cameras, and sharing saved runs.
Read field notesI’m an Irish software engineer, but usually not working on games. I've gotten a touch addicted to Arma 3 in the last year, and have turned my hand to mod and mission development. I mostly play antistasi on the YLS servers. Helicopter flight in Arma really caught my attention. Somewhere along the line, trying to make my landings less embarrassing turned into building tools: a landing trainer with an action replay, a live flight HUD, and whatever else helps untangle why an approach went sideways.
This site is where I write about what I build. The design decisions, the weird SQF quirks, what worked, and what broke in spectacular fashion. If you code, fly, land, or crash in Arma 3, hopefully some of it will be useful to you too.
