Neither did i, but i'd definately be open to trying it. As i said, as long as crashes don't cost me anything.

I could imagine that the heli would have good programming though, if done via satelite, so not full manual flight at all... Auto hover, stops forward flight perfectly and such.

Shooting things with a shotgun from a heli, with 10 second lag would be very hard though... First getting in range without them shooting back (big loud bird) and then aiming... waiting 10 seconds hoping they don't move and shooting.

A shotgun is probably the worst weapon i could imagine on a helicopter. Helis are fragile, shotguns are short range; those combined is real bad. Give it rockets or some such, like LAWs, and have a field soldier pilot it. Much safer being a few miles from the heli, which could be a few miles from the target. Double the distance the soldier is from the front yet still has the same firepower.