Heli Pilot

"Powerful attack helicopter armed with twin dart shooters and multiple patrol options"

- Official Description

The  is a new tower first released in Bloons TD 5 iOS. The Heli Pilot is an aircraft, like the Monkey Ace, that shoots 2 darts directly in front of it. The Heli Pilot is operated by a monkey. Although the Heli Pilot does hover above the ground, it does not fly like the Monkey Ace and does not have a runway, rather, is free to move about the entire map based on the targeting system chosen by the player. The Heli Pilot is an expensive tower and costs $1275/$1500/$1620 Cash to place on Easy, Medium, and Hard respectively. This tower has many powerful upgrades and helpful additions never before seen in any tower, including Razor Rotors, and Support Chinook.

Moving system
The Heli Pilot has four moving systems (one of which is unlocked with an upgrade). Lock in Place is a moving system that will make the Heli Pilot stay in one spot based on its current position. Follow Touch is another moving system which makes the Heli Pilot follow where you touch. Patrol is a moving system that makes the Heli Pilot move from one point to another, which are selected by the player. The final moving system, Pursuit, is the only moving system that is not readily available at the start and must be purchased. Pursuit will make the Heli Pilot follow and attack the bloon farthest through the map.

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Bugs

 * The Heli Pilot cannot be found on missions like "Two Time Bloon Time" even if it only says "no Banana Farms and Villages".

Trivia

 * This is currently the only tower that can have two different abilities without the use of a Specialty Building, or by other means.
 * The Apache Dartship has no visible space between the machine gun darts.
 * The Heli Pilot's landing pad doesn't change appearance with any of the upgrades.
 * The missiles fired by Apache Dartship home in on bloons.
 * If the Support Chinook moves a Monkey Ace's landing strip, the plane will continue to circle around the place where the landing strip was before it got moved.
 * If the Support Chinook moves a pool (special agent) with water-towers on it, the towers will remain in the same place before the pool was moved; allowing the player to place near-unlimited water towers
 * As mentioned before, the heli pilot is a btd5 IOS and Android exclusive