Helicopter Search Lights (AI) without sleep command (post 1.34)

Even in 1.34 (with the 'helicopters DLC') AI Helicopters at night wont use search lights. Many people have suggested

  null=[] spawn { while {true} do {  player action ["lightOn", heli]; player action ["collisionlightOn", heli]; sleep 0.01};}; 

After much testing with Lecks from ASOR http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=26181\ www.asor.com.au) we have found a solution that does not require a sleep 0.01 loop (which destroys MP missions due to lag). Full credit to Lecks for coming up with the code.

this is a copy paste from my mission script where I want the choppers to surround (but not shoot) for a "capture" mission. Hence the careless and captive true. They also started as simulation disabled, so remove this if your choppers are active to start with. I wait 30 seconds so they can take off the ground prior to the clone thing - sometimes in uneven terrain they will blow up if you dont wait for them to take off and be airborne.

HINT "Lights SCRIPT RUNNING";
(driver _this) setCaptive true;
(group driver _this) setBehaviour "Careless";
(driver _this) setBehaviour "Careless";
_this enablesimulation true; _this enablesimulationglobal true;
sleep 30;
_type = typeOf _this;
_copy = _type createVehicle getPos _this;
_copy setHit [getText(configFile >> "cfgVehicles" >> (typeof _copy) >> "HitPoints" >> "HitHRotor" >> "name"), 1];
_copy attachTo [_this, [0,0,0]];
_copy setPilotLight true;
_copy setCollisionLight true;
_copy engineOn true;
(driver _this) setCaptive true;

This should allow you to have choppers fly with search lights without a sleep command (and the resultant lag!). I suggest for uneven terrain you set the helicopter as non simulated, then enable the simulation so it can take off BEFORE you clone it. It may explode:

Known Issue: Roter blades may look a bit messed up, but at night with a Searchlight on, you cant see it anyway :)

Just want to mention side effects of this..

-It probably won't work when you destroy the chopper (not sure what would happen.. didn't matter for our mission).

-As mestoth mentioned, you can see the still rotor blades of the copy of the chopper. the setHit was an attempt to break them but didn't work.

-Might look weird close up.

The relevant parts of the code for forcing the lights on are (assuming _this == the chopper):

_type = typeOf _this;
_copy = _type createVehicle getPos _this;
_copy attachTo [_this, [0,0,0]];
_copy setPilotLight true;
_copy setCollisionLight true;