Too much work, not enough WP...

Are you seriously suggesting that the dropship physics are sophisticated enough to the point that MFS is a comparable experience?

I think you can adjust the physics in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

To off?

Read this:

My Dropship Guide

I wrote according to the way I had to think about piloting a dropship. The way I describe flying it should make it easier to understand.

Read this:

My Dropship Guide

I wrote according to the way I had to think about piloting a dropship. The way I describe flying it should make it easier to understand.

May I ask is that the assault dropship or logi one? Hard to tell in that light.

For first time DS pilots give this a watch. 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 button press and stick movement.

The basics of dropship flight

I don't think it's all that expensive to be honest. I'm less than two weeks in the game, and I've had plenty of dropship practice, so I'm starting to feel comfortable with them (I'm still pretty useless when it comes to actually killing things, but I'm not too sure how a flight simulator would help with that). I just started practicing assault dropships on an alt, since Academy is a much safer environment for them (admittedly buying the skill books for that is pretty expensive).

It just takes a couple of matches or so to afford a new dropship when it goes down, that doesn't seem too bad? IMO the biggest cost in learning to fly dropships is injured pride, but we can all afford that!

Whoa with the micro$oft sales plug. Flight sim cmon man

I think I need to practice using a helicopter simulation first - and go through a flight tutorial 'first hand'.

It's because it doesn't look at all instinctive to me - it looks difficult.

In theory, I don't think people should be losing dropships, but reading these forums, a lot of people lose many dropships.

Yes! I read your guide on dropships! I think it's the best one!

It inspired me to take things further.

I'm going to try to use Microsoft Flight Simulator to make a Python simulator. It should take me a couple of months. If it works, I'll post the file on the forums.