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

Do you have any tips for keeping the dropship steady for the gunners to shoot? My alt is still in the acadamy atm, so im not sure if its just bad players, but they are unable to kill anything. Im currently flying the vyper with standard accellerated missile turrets, and they seam to make the ship very unstable when fired. Ive thought about putting blasters on instead, but I'm not to sure about the lower range.

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

Yeah ok, ill look into that. do the blaster types have different ranges or is it only the damage thats different?

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.

Remember that just like learning to fly, people have to learn to gun. It's not the same as on the ground. The ship moves, the turret moves. Gunning is like trying to hold a bowl of cake mix still while someone else stirs it (try it). By that I mean they line up a shot and facto in your speed, then suddenly you change speed.

Good gunners (also a great pilot) like Richie up there a few comments above are helped by also being pilots. When gunning he knows when the pilot has found a safe spot, or is lineing him up or when a swarm bump is incoming.

People have to learn to gun. Give them some time and lea-way. Unless they start spamming bulltets as soon as they sit down. Hate that (there is a gunning video on the way to try address this

Do you have any tips for keeping the dropship steady for the gunners to shoot? My alt is still in the acadamy atm, so im not sure if its just bad players, but they are unable to kill anything. Im currently flying the vyper with standard accellerated missile turrets, and they seam to make the ship very unstable when fired. Ive thought about putting blasters on instead, but I'm not to sure about the lower range.

scatter blasters on a gallente are pretty awesome for killing infantry

Surly caldari are better with the lows for damage mods? Your making me doubt my choice for caldari now :P

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

Is there anywhere to see the ranges of the blasters? would be useful to know how much more range the different varients have

Remember that just like learning to fly, people have to learn to gun. It's not the same as on the ground. The ship moves, the turret moves. Gunning is like trying to hold a bowl of cake mix still while someone else stirs it (try it). By that I mean they line up a shot and facto in your speed, then suddenly you change speed.

Good gunners (also a great pilot) like Richie up there a few comments above are helped by also being pilots. When gunning he knows when the pilot has found a safe spot, or is lineing him up or when a swarm bump is incoming.

People have to learn to gun. Give them some time and lea-way. Unless they start spamming bulltets as soon as they sit down. Hate that (there is a gunning video on the way to try address this

... it takes great teamwork on both ends to be an effective dropship gunner and pilot

I actually learned this when I joined a squad and their was already a pilot in the squad so I just decided to man the turret in his dropship ....trust me I'm not a gunner, I usually snipe if I'm not flying, but the pilot and I racked up a combined total of over 1500 WP in one ambush...I had around 920 WP and most of the pilots WP were vehicle kill assists.....had the most fun in that match

Impressive :P

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.

Ah nice, ill look forward to it. I've kind of got it down... my main problem is doing a tight turn and forgetting about that massive building to the next of me...