Helicopter’s will not collective raise.

[PistolSlingKing]

Even after swapping keyboards as well as keybinds, I cannot get a helicopter to take off. However, once i am able to finesse the copter off of the ground about 3 meters or so, it will raise with no issues whatsoever. Once i am off the ground, the keybind works perfectly. Its just the initial liftoff/collective raise off of the ground thats my issue.
I couldnt find this thread elsewhere, so please excuse my ignorance if this is a near duplication of another thread. Thanks much in advance!

[Kurdain]

I've noticed this quite often with expansion helicopters - for some reason they made them harder to control than they need to be really (same with boats).

It appears in my experience that when you jump into a Helicopter the collective is set to sea level. It seems the collective works off this reference point, at least initially.

So if you jump in a helicopter and fire it up and you are at 200 meters above sea level you have to hold the collective down until it passes 200 meters. Probably butchering this explanation but hopefully it makes sense.

Sometimes toggling auto-hover helps and to be honest it's almost a given to fly unless maybe a controller of joystick works better without but I use mouse/keyboard and it's a bit of a pain.