How do I fly a minicopter?

I found a minicopter along a road, and decided to test it out. I tossed some fuel in it and attempted to start it up. I managed to get it a few feet off the ground before I went careening off into a tree and exploded. How does one fly a minicopter?

Solution 1:

A little hard to explain, but:

"W" and "S" are for the power of your rotor. (Just like to accelerate and to break)

With "A" and "D" you can turn the whole heli on his X -Axis. (Horizontal)

The difficult part of flying is controlling the heli with your mouse! When moving the mouse up, your heli will face down.(In combination with a highly rotor power, by pressing w before and during moving you mouse, you'll go fast forward).

When moving the mouse down you will break your forward flying, but you can also easily crash your heli with this, by pulling to far or to fast.

Moving the mouse to the left and to the right will lean your heli to the site, which also often leads to crashes! Start your heli training by pressing "W" and then moving your mouse just a tiny bit up. Control you helis direction with "A" and "D" mostly.

To drive the heli around on the ground, just keep pressing CTRL while moving with "WASD".

Just keep in mind to use your mouse very carefully while flying! There are also some Modded Community Servers, just for heli training. :)

Solution 2:

You can watch this video to gain an understanding of how to operate the Minicopter

The short version is:
Use the W & S keys to control the engine’s speed
Use the A & D keys to control the yaw (left and right directions)
Use the mouse to control the pitch (elevation)