How to fly helicopters - tips and tricks
- Learn to fly from one of the best -
Written by Anphrax

How to take off

This is my favorite part about BF2, the fact that the helicopters are so much fun to fly expecially when you know how to fly them. There are two ways to fly the helicopters: with the keyboard & mouse or with a joystick, I perfer to use the keyboard and mouse. The trick is to hold the forward key (w in most cases) until it starts "hovering" slightly off the ground, this lets you know that the propellers are up to speed... After this starts to happen it should be easier to take off, slowly push the mouse forward and let the chopper tilt forward (this both helps you take off and increases your speed once you are in air).
The helicopter should start to go forward and up at the same time.

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Table of contents

• Home
• Introduction - What is this all about?
• How to take off
• The basics of flying
• Dodging and bailing out
• Hovering
• Landing
• Information