Crew stations

Who does what

	Pilot PLT	Copilot/gunner CPG
Seat	Rear	Front
In Arma	Driver	Gunner (copilot)
Flies	Yes	When given the controls (Arma’s Take Controls)
Starts and stops the engines	Yes	No: the engine controls only work from the pilot’s seat
Sights	HMD, FCR	TADS, HMD, FCR
Night vision sensor	PNVS, by default	TADS, by default
Weapons	Cannon, rockets, Hellfires	Cannon, rockets, Hellfires

The rest of the cockpit is the same in both seats: two MPDs, the UFD, a keyboard unit, a fire panel, ARM/SAFE and GND ORIDE, MASTER WARNING and MASTER CAUTION, EMER HYD, an NVS mode switch, a floodlight and an IHADSS helmet display. The cockpit tour shows where each one is.

What you share and what is your own

Shared: everything about the aircraft itself. That means the engines, fuel, systems and warnings, the stored points and routes, radar targets, the weapon inventory, ARM/SAFE, GND ORIDE, and the IHADSS flight symbology mode (transition, cruise, hover or bob-up).

Your own: your MPD pages, your selected sight, your acquisition source, your range source and your weapon action switch.

A few things belong to one crew station at a time:

Shared item	Who has it
Fire control radar	The last crew station to select FCR as its sight. Only that station can scan, slew and slave it.
Night vision sensors	One crew station uses the PNVS and the other the TADS. NVS Select PNVS/TADS swaps them.
Weapons	One weapon at a time, held by the last station to action it. Both can hold the rockets together. See Weapon action switch.

Changing seats

Change seats with Arma’s action menu while the other seat is free. The CPG can fly with Arma’s Take Controls action, and the pilot can take them back. The flight model carries on from where it was, so the engines, rotor, trim and holds are not reset.

In multiplayer, each player gets the welcome pop-up the first time they get in. Turn it off in Addon settings.