I know a few people having a tough time getting thier dropships off the ground and keeping them their. so i made this to help. It shows the basics of flight with an onscreen ps3 controller showing what does what. It's for the very first timers and breaks the mechanics of flight down to each buton press and stick movement.

The basics of dropship flight

use blasters as most the av will be militia so easy to survive the more you practice the more steady you get.

Ranges are the same, except stabilised blasters have a better zoom function.

If you're still in the academy I'm assuming people just aren't good at using your turrets yet; it takes practise especially with missiles as you can manage to hit your own ship with those, and it does cause the pilot some strife even if it doesn't do any damage.

And I like that guide, Judge. To be honest, I think it's much harder to learn how to fly now in Uprising. I had the luck to get the basics down in Chromosome so when Uprising came along I just had to adjust slightly.

But keep at it, you rookie pilots. One day, when you're flying like a pro, you'll realise just how many other problems we pilots have.

scatter blasters on a gallente are pretty awesome for killing infantry

I wouldnt bother with dmg mods for ds go for as much hp as possible thts what i do and it seems to work also i try to keep my fitting cost down i my cheapest fit is around 600k w/ a neutron blaster on my python

Video 2 is uploading now. Big file so will be processed by tomorrow. You better have nailed your yaw and roll balance or your struggle with this. Get lesson one down before moving on.

I'll update post 1 with a new link when it's up. Any comments, good or bad are welcome.

My only character has 15 million in only dropships, no weapons or suits (beyond enough to wear the merc pack one). Fully into both Caldari and Gallente and both shields and armour. Until CCP get round to working on dropships I'm afraid you will suffer. We are just way too weak to get close to the battle in this build.

I took the maps from the feedback section that have a grid birds eye view of the maps. I went into a few games and used the fixed structures to find the scale. Then I mapped the forge and Swarm ranges onto them. Basically a single swarm or forge gunner can cover the entire zone in which action takes place. Not the whole map, but One guy with a proto weapon can cover any area that you would be in to take part. This really means the whole map.

It's stupidly broken and until time is found to fix it, you will lose ships often no matter what. With the merge of Ambush and OMS there is just nowhere balanced to play a dropship. There are overpowered fixed turrets, swarms and forges hitting you from across the map, swarm players able to hop and skip and never lose their lock, red line rail tanks and even the flaylock pistol knocking you all over the place, with one shot kill shot forge gunners zipping round in indestructable logi lavs and racking up infantry kills easily too with their OP weapon.

I'm sure it will be addressed, but for now its a very tough role to play with AV being so badly implemented.

2 million SP in this build is not much. Getting an ADS to level 3 costs more than that alone. Let me pop in tomorrow and see what 2 mill will get you. With the state of AV keeping a 2 mill ship alive and useful will be difficult.