How To Fly a Helicopter

[EmBee]

Are there any instructions on flying helicopters anywhere??? I can't find any instructions on FLYING them anywhere. I get that this is an early access game but the absolute lack of information to be astounding. I am not real happy with this game at all.

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

How do you mean how to fly? Generally speaking most helicopters are wired up with either analog controls or w/s a/d for pitch and roll, and they're easier to handle than most boats.

[GabeTeuton]

it's not a flight simulator game so you shouldn't find any tutorial on how to actually fly, besides being a building game, you can build your own, which means you'll be able to decide how to fly them while you build them

[Desiire]

Every helicopter is built differently, so controls will vary from helictoper to helicopter and the workshop authors. The rule of thumb for most helicopters in the game and the market place are as follows:

• W/S controls pitch
• A/D controls roll
• Up/down arrow controls collective
• Left/right arrow controls yaw

Understanding controls and understanding flight are two different things, however. Even if you are an expert at flying helicopters in Battlefield or... ArmA, flying in Stormworks is an entirely different beast if not only because of the control sensitivity and obscene amounts of windage you get pelted with the higher elevation you get

And again, like Gabe said, there is no set control scheme for any vehicles in the game. If you are downloading helicopters or other vehicles from the workshop, you kind of have to study-up the vehicle in the game before you can operate it. No two vehicles are the same, so if you master flying one helicopter, the controls might be completely bass-ackwards in another