Learning to fly

[Hetstaine 10852]

Hilarious, a roughly similar incident happened with my squad when we found our first working helicopter and tried to fly it next to a gas tank to refuel it. It promptly crashed not 1 minute from takeoff in to nearby trees.

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I've found the default controls to be extremely unintuitive. You can fly with them no problem, but landing without auto-hover is dreadfully difficult.

My controls:

Mouse-Y: Nose down/Nose up

Mouse-X: Roll

W/S: Throttle

Q/E: Rudder

A/D: Turn

Then only downside to this is that looking around with the mouse becomes slightly more difficult since you have to get out of mouse look to control the heli. I've crashed a few helis when mouselook gets toggled by accident, have since removed that option. Would be awesome if you could turn your head in the heli and it would stay at that direction. Since if you want to land without auto-hover as I prefer to do, 3rd person is almost mandatory. You can't see anything from the default look direction.

I use the arrows to fly and the mouse for my head look , drlete and end above the arrow keys for roll so the controls are all nice and close, works ok :)

beautiful post het beans for you

cheers

Got my trusty Thrustmaster joystick to fly about.. Been flying a lot in ARMA2 before I even realised there was something called DayZ. Dont use the auto hover option, like some1 else mentioned, you should learn to fly without using it, but according to most of my teammates it's a usefull option if you dont fly with a stick.

Beans for OP :) Lovely story and pics!

cheers too

Yeah, cannot overstate how much better flying with a stick is - even a cheapo-deluxe like the one I got off Amazon for £12 - having a thumb throttle so I can go from full throttle to engines dead in a split second is just crazy useful, not to mention that it makes precision flying a lot easier too.

I have an x52 and trackir but have not bothered using them for a while now as the flight controls are so simple in arma, will hook them both up again for the SA once Helis are in though.

Knowing SA will use the flight model from Take on helicopters there will be loads of these threads in the future. Cant wait!

Really nice screenshottography btw, beans for you.

Thanks :)