First Release.

The original helicopter was made by Owen Hewitt for Flight Simulator 2004. I converted it for GTA IV as good as I can and added some details.
This helicopter has the following features:

* three different Lod models
* custom moving rotor models
* four working, angled doors
* independent landing lights, navigation lights, strobes and one beacon on their right position
* wire cutters as extra part - If you don't like to fly with them they can be disabled using simple native trainer (car component 6)
* fuselage bumpmaps for detailed riffets (unfortunately it's not possible to enable liveries this way... maybe an update will follow)
* 4 car colours (seats have their own colour)
* dirt enabled and mapped
* illuminated instruments
* illuminated cockpit (using one greenish omni light... look careful at night :) )
* working skid (like on the normal maverick, but it doesn't hang down that far)
* every window is an independent breakable part
* detailed interior

 "Bugs":

* navigation lights don't disappear with tail breakoff (not fixable due to game limitations)
* If the helicopter lands with too high vertical speed you'll sink through the ground till the main body has contact (I'd like to call this a feature :P)

Install as always:
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handling.dat:

MAVERICK     2000.0  10.0  75 	0.0 0.3  0.0    	0.0  1  0.30  1.0 160.0	0.4  0.60 0.7  35.0		0.65 0.60  8.0 0.10 0.5 		5.0 5.0  0.8  0.01 -0.05 0.0  0.5			1.0 0.5 3.0 1.5 	0.0  52000 		2004000		400000			0

It’s the stock handling with some modifications in order to display the skid correct.

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vehicles.ide:

maverick,	maverick,	heli,		MAVERICK,	MAVERICK,	VEH@VAN,	VEH@HELICOPTER_XX_H,100,999,		0.10, 	0.15,	 	0.3,	4,	1.0	,0,	noboot+truckexhaustfx

Changed the “wheel” size, animations, and added exhaust effects (works only on GTA IV up to Patch 0.4. I think…)

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carcols.dat:
maverick,	7,132,2,110, 133,35,28,7, 104,1,117,106, 1,7,1,110, 75,74,123,133, 127,124,124,99, 56,57,106,94, 120,79,2,133, 35,0,33,7, 4,6,5,110, 127,0,0,26, 110,1,4,7, 0,33,33,33

This line belongs to the 4-colour section. Delete the old Maverick line and paste this between huntley and primo ;)
1st Number: main body, 2nd Number: upper body, 3rd number: lower body, 4th number: seats.

If you want to you can replace the "corona.png" file in "coronas.wtd" (located in the GTA textures folder) with the one I included.