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How to fly it

Aircraft

Fly the

Handling is tuned per airframe from the game's stats and flown by feel; the collective's hover mark moves with the weight.

Flight assists

Stability assist: holds your bank and pitch when you centre the cyclic Auto-hover assist: kills drift when you centre the cyclic Envelope limits: stops the disc at the airframe's max tilt. Off, it can loop and roll right over Turn coordination: small slips straighten, but a sideways slide holds your heading. Off, the nose swings into the direction of travel

Match these to your in-game settings. Start with both on, and turn auto-hover off first once the hover drill feels easy.

Game HUD

Show the helicopter HUD

Speed in km/h, height above ground and sea level, and a fuel bar. The arcs either side are the collective, both growing up or down together from the hover mark; the triangles ride with pitch and the short lines bank with the aircraft.

Notes

Flying the model

The collective hovers at the white mark on its bar: the centre for the MH-6, higher for the heavier airframes. A touchdown faster than the aircraft's limit (4 m/s and 15° of tilt for the Little Birds) is a crash. The cyclic commands a rate: deflect and the aircraft keeps rolling or pitching until you centre it, as in the game. Tap and centre; do not hold deflection.

Views

The chase view shows how the aircraft is sitting: the tilt of the rotor disc is the clearest picture of what the cyclic is doing. The cockpit puts you in the seat with a fixed sight on the nose line. The gunner view adds the weapons HUD, and the left mouse button fires. The map shows where you are, with an attitude indicator in the corner. V cycles views.

Ground

Landscape swaps the grid for fields, hedges, trees and farms, generated from coordinates so it is the same every time. Trees and buildings are solid. Hills give the ground shape; every height is then above the ground beneath you, like a radar altimeter. The pads stay level and the corridor is always kept clear.

Debrief and replay

When a drill ends you get charts of what you actually flew, with your previous run faint behind it, plus a replay you can scrub and export as a video.

About

What is this?

A free, unofficial helicopter trainer for Wardogs players that runs in the browser. It carries the game's whole helicopter roster, from the MH-6 to the Havoc. It is a practice tool for the control habits the game needs, not a copy of the game's engine. Inspired by Wardogs Flight School.

Read the flying guide: controls for keyboard and mouse, HOTAS and controller, what the top pilots bind, and how to fly each drill.

What controls work?

Keyboard and mouse, or any stick or HOTAS the browser can see as a gamepad. A HOTAS made of several USB devices is read as one. Every key and axis is rebindable in the setup (cog, top right), and settings stay in this browser.