I researched, build and placed the helicopter.
As soon I the key combination to START the engines this error came and crashed.

Mod Helicopters hat einen unbehebbaren Fehler verursacht.
Bitte informiere den Mod-Autor über diesen Fehler.

Error while running event Helicopters::heli-up (ID 153)
Unknown entity name: player
stack traceback:
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:372: in function 'init'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:661: in function 'changeState'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:359: in function 'OnUp'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:271: in function 'OnUp'
Helicopters/control.lua:157: in function <Helicopters/control.lua:154>
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'create_entity'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:372: in function 'init'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:661: in function 'changeState'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:359: in function 'OnUp'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:271: in function 'OnUp'
Helicopters/control.lua:157: in function <Helicopters/control.lua:154>

Same error on 17.41

I get this on 17.41 when trying to start the engines

The mod Helicopters caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.

Error while running event Helicopters::heli-up (ID 149)
Unknown entity name: player
stack traceback:
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:372: in function 'init'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:661: in function 'changeState'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:359: in function 'OnUp'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:271: in function 'OnUp'
Helicopters/control.lua:157: in function <Helicopters/control.lua:154>
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'create_entity'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:372: in function 'init'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:661: in function 'changeState'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:359: in function 'OnUp'
Helicopters/logic/heliBase.lua:271: in function 'OnUp'
Helicopters/control.lua:157: in function <Helicopters/control.lua:154>

Did you guys just update from a version less than 17.35?

Judging by what I've seen on other mods, Factorio recently changed the name of your entity from "player" to "character". I found the places that's referenced in the Helicopters zip and made the changes manually. Here's what to change: In your mods folder (normally %appdata%\roaming\Factorio\Mods): in logic\heliBase.lua: Line 372 and 765 name="player" to name="character"; in logic\heliController.lua: Line 67 and 117 name = "player" to name = "character". After some quick testing, everything seems to work so far.

Yes, read about this, this is an ridiciolious crash ...but thanks willl try.
Did so: flying, shooting with ap rounds np. landing is buggy...
you land and you stuck in the area... you put in inventory and you walk away...You had the same bug?
Thanks

Hi HappyBroccolli, I get mails from github about your commits all the time. Unfortunately I don't have access to my PC at the moment and for the next few weeks. But you seem pretty interested and knowledgeable so I added you as a collaborator. This means you can manage the mod if you want, upload versions, change description, etc. The two other collaborators I added a while ago are Thyberian and Oceanel but they seem to be inactive. Please be careful with your code changes and make sure to test them well. Thank you :)

Thanks! I try my best to keep your baby going 😃

When I get home from work I will update the mod for 17.35

The update is live!