I'm hoping someone who's played more of the game than me can answer this. In Far Cry 5 gold edition I have almost immediate access to an armed helicopter. To my surprise I was able to fly to an outpost and destroy everyone in it and liberate it in about 90 seconds. There's a load of other things I could use the armed helicopter to do that with. Doesn't this make everything ridiculously easy and offer a hugely reduced challenge? Or does using an armed helicopter to quickly annihilate everything below you become much more difficult in later missions?