The Best Minicopter Pilot Teaches Us How to Fly in Rust!

[@becca2728]

I remember a few years ago I hopped on one of the earlier heli servers to practice flying with a friend. Koala was there and spent a good few hours teaching us both these basics and gave us trick flights. Really nice guy.

[@Dawz3G]

i was also briefly on this server a few years back and had a similar experience. i cant remember if it was koala who taught me, but hes got such a friendly community over there

[@bon_grippah]

Me too!

[@koalahasyt]

I had a blast teaching ya sig! I wanna see a double spinning invert tireflip from you next time you're on KoalaKopters though!

[@anubis7589]

Hey man quick question for you, i can fly inverted , do front flips and back flips both single and double of each (depending on the server ofc ) but im struggling hard with tire flips , i get the orientation but im always to high or it doesnt work . Any suggestions ?

[@PsycheNautiKaL]

love your community and server.. its where i learned to fly... good shit mann ... great ppl in there.. good getaway from the norm. toxicity of rust

[@jacktheripper1270]

@@anubis7589 Tip, get on their server often there are very experienced pilots including active af fun admins who are more then happy to give you some tips and help

[@anubis7589]

@@jacktheripper1270 last time i tried i was told to stfu and learn myself and all i asked was is anyone able to help me learn tire taps? , hence me asking the man himself. Not gonna waste my time with people like them

[@ImStuff420]

You Steel and Mac are the only reason I can do consistent tire flips. Thanks for all the tips over the past couple years.

[@that773guy4]

I can vouch for the community on Koala's server being a blast. I came in as that guy who smashed into everything, 2 days and about 8-9 hours later, i had tips from countless people that enabled me to feel confident. Plus...there are some crazy insane pilots out there.

[@9php]

Imo the biggest tip to take from this video is that 2 things affect the mini: momentum and the direction of the rotor. While pressing w, the mini just accelerates in the direction the rotor is facing and not where you're looking or towards the front of the mini like a lot of players seem to think

[@LazerRust]

Practice makes permanent -Koala 2022

[@a1534-d7k]

im pretty sure other people said that before him

[@rockosgaminglogic]

You practice until you get it right. Then you TRAIN until you can't get it wrong.

[@thatcooldudeisawesome876]

Yeah I've heard that from many people way before him sorry to be a buzzkill.

[@capthishot6375]

I just saw this as soon as he said that

[@NegHead]

Great video, i like your style! It's nice to find creators who don't have a "WHAT IS UP YOU GUYS" type personality

[@TeaGuyTom]

As you both are some of my most favorite people to play Rust with this whole video had smiling the whole time. Thanks for the minicopter tutorial Sigbog and Koala! Easily the most helpful Rust content on KZbin.

[@PlaysZach]

It's Tom :O

[@sheredan]

I'm so hyped for more advanced techniques I hope Koala shares some tricks with us

[@anubis7589]

Theres videos of people hes taught all over the internet

[@Wrutschgeluck]

Just read the comments.

[@Wrutschgeluck]

I always told beginners it's *like walking* You focus 1 close point in front of you and move around it with wasd. And you correct your view with the mouse. It's the exact movement like in the helicopter and simple to understand. If you press A, you correct with the mouse to the right.

[@sgtleska]

That was some real good instructing, soldier. You're a great pilot, Koala, and a real good trainer. Hope to have a wipe with you and Fridu sometime. Keep up the good work. *Salutes*

[@DrummerJacob]

@3:29 - I believe pilots call that "Flaring" where you pull back at the last second to alleviate momentous weight off the wheels or for minicopter flying, to avoid taking damage.

[@venom_yeetmagget8268]

i think the best tip for learning to fly a mini is that the mini will go in the direction that the lowest part of the rotor is pointed

[@stdjunior]

sig koala copters is legit. I struggled hella hard - Did a bunch of touch & goes. Another thing to practice is how to knock annoying outpost guests into the inescapable area of death or make them fall from high

[@khure711]

To the right of the tier 1 bench at outpost is a splitter box on the wall in the corner. Drive them into that splitter and it will kill them.

[@khure711]

Or hover on some barbed fencing and that will damage them as well.

[@chuppy6938]

Finally. Been waiting for this vid.. thansk sig

[@corey_2096]

My mans koala always be fried bruh loool

[@Resinpro]

Inverting the axis helped me a lot, but I still need some more time on koala

[@TheSpeedOfC]

You can fly the mini inverted?? whoa..

[@dragonmateX]

I'm surprised jumping out of your mini to cancel it's momentum wasn't mentioned, I do that all the time to quickly land safely when I've got a lot of momentum

[@xantrx6633]

Probably because that should be a last resort. Just jumping out with high momentum leads to mini taking damage

[@anubis7589]

Koala is a pro , that tactic is used by people who dont know how to land . You do more damage then good and cost yourself resources

[@royken7337]

I used to solo loot train yard through the roof breach, throwing my copter away from that height to the rails to take it later and fly away , copter survived always once u mastered that technic, sadly roof is patched now haha :D

[@SoulWafflePop]

@@anubis7589 oh no not my 23 metal frags 😭😭😭

[@anubis7589]

@@SoulWafflePop 150 damage isnt 23 frags bud. Get on officials and actually learn the game lol

[@real-babz-tv]

The preview had me at like "WTF is that even" and had to look lololol.....

[@gmclucy]

this video is great! Looling forward to the next as this brought back a flashback of my first time piloting one (instant crash and burn)

[@William0271]

It is mindblowing that there is a video teaching common sense

[@dailydoses8774]

I prob spent a 1000 hrs joyriding and doing tricks in minis on servers like this. Such a fun toy. I might have to check out and chase Koala around. I dont have quite all the spin moves but I could fly full speel with my front wheel on the ground almost anywhere on a normal map. Buzzing around inside the dome was fun too

[@wintersworldgaming]

i joined a random server trying to practice flying which happened to be koalakopters and i actually had no idea that it was a big community. really cool. i recognize the scenery. im going to have to go back there and try again cuz im still not any good at it.

[@wintersworldgaming]

@@sigbog yeah i didnt spend enough time. its something i really want to get at least decent at so a return visit is definitely in my future. thanks for refreshing my memory.

[@Mousenkeybord1]

Did a zerg with Koala once. I was one of the main members that stuck around getting tons of loot for the base. There was haters in the group that didn't like the way I played but it was fun as hell!

[@DeuceGenius]

building and flying around looking at what i built is all i do. love to see some more flying vids with more advanced techniques

[@blankspace178]

*THE MOMENT* a wheel touches ground, tap CTRL, it will eliminate your momentum.

[@kaidzz9358]

good vid man, Kieth is our god btw

[@maybe4549]

Dude flying an heli inverted be like: "I want to understand the enemy."

[@jacktheripper1270]

made me laugh, worth a like

[@skerder2]

Awesome tips. Thanks for uploading - hope you guys will make another vid with more tips

[@Claythargic]

If I had one thing to add, its practice your landings, literally any monkey with a keyboard can fly to the destination then crash on arrival. go to Koala's and land on everything.

[@mrploppers2269]

Just to note AOA/angle of attack is the difference of angle relative to the true flight path

[@riomouris4767]

I played this last night, it's an awesome server, most people were pretty friendly

[@petrtomsej6064]

I was actually trying to find this server, imma hop on there today, thank you for that video!

[@ssttvooo]

shoutout koalakopters lol.

[@ighopfrogged3202]

Thank Goodness this guy actually has his axis setup like a proper aircraft (y)

[@Abracadabra-21]

For the people watching this. I promise flying isn’t hard. Literally learned how to fly in the span of idk 3 hours or so. If you wanna go forward move your mouse up WHILE holding w (it will make you lose a lot of height otherwise). If you wanna stop pull down, and then after you stop move your mouse forward and try to level out. If you wanna land to the exact same thing from above and then hold s (makes you descend). To turn understand that you cannot just make a “sharp” turn and it’s not really just one continuous movement. Let’s say you wanna turn left, slow down (you can do it fast but it’s honestly unnecessary), press a, and move your mouse to the left at a similar speed. To move right to the complete opposite. To descend /ascend quickly just stop and hold w to ascend s to descend. And to hover it helps slow down by pulling down, whenever you slow down level out, you might still be going forward but that’s fine, and then try your best to just stop movin by moving your mouse in the opposite direction that you’re moving in. Boom you learned how to fly in about 2 minutes

[@RanDom-if2ee]

Thanks!

[@Nesque]

Reminds me a lot of BF4 heli's. An utter blast to play once you get over the initial hurdles.

[@Neopopulist]

Reminds me of bf3 little bird, got I LOVED that thing. I would use it exclusively during the entire match and rack up 100+ kills with just the miniguns on it.

[@peaches3840]

W and S doesnt control rotor speed, it controls rotor pitch which effects the lift.. otherwise when turning upside down the rotor would be stationary for a second before spinning the other way.

[@sgtleska]

This is a great video, Sig. *Salutes*

[@LazyBuddyBan]

Thank you! now i know that i have to use my keyboard and mouse

[@michaelfomenko1563]

I'm 100% going to check out his server because my helicopter proficiency is only good for wrecking other people's helis 🤣

[@wakcedout]

I like koalas server as it’s a great way to practice with no risk. I gained a level of competence from koala kopters and seeing some of what he said I think I’ll have to load it up again soon and try more methods for improving my mini flying skills.

[@EllieFurCAN]

as a new console player i never know how difficult it was to fly so this will help when copters come to console

[@cloudzero2049]

I've played on the server for a few multi-hour sessions already, it's pretty awesome. There's lots of landmarks set up so you can practice in different areas, and you can spawn your own mini-copter (and also the transport). Please have Koala teach us more tips! ✈🚀

[@cloudzero2049]

@@sigbog I would like to add to new pilots not to feel bad about having a hard time with the mini-copter because I have a lot of experience of flying helicopters in other games like Battlefield (including pinpointing altitudes for doing backflips and such) and flying the mini is hard for even me to get use to. I do like it though. I can't stress enough how important it is to grasp how to use the momentum (/ velocity) of the mini to fly. Try to get an intuitive sense of when to hold W to keep from dropping too fast.

[@cowboy12222]

W Koala

[@MikeU1]

I like this video. From: Attack Helicopter v2.0

[@dizzle2212]

Needed this video - Thank you

[@danford6678]

More Koala please

[@jonathanvaughan8257]

I can watch this video 100X but I still am lost on the dynamics of heli flight. I fail so hard.

[@sigbog]

took me a while as well, try hovering and making slight movements left and right. Really think about the rotor as adding force to the direction the rotor is facing, which is different than where your minicopter is moving. For me I kept acting like it was a plane, like I had to keep pulling up to pull up, when all you have to do is point the rotor and wait for its force to adjust your minis movement. so its more about pointing your rotor and then understand how long it takes for the rest of your momentum to shift to where the rotor is pointing

[@KillerClaus]

W video, W teacher.

[@SparrowFPS]

14k subs... half a year youre 100k minimum, best educational videos on rust out there!

[@pain7704]

10/10 flight instructor

[@jonajiro]

Awesome video! Hopefully i can keep my mini's a little bit longer now 😄

[@erich.1355]

Dude, thanks so much for this! I'd like to say this will be a huge help to me... but probably I'm beyond helping!! lol

[@justinmuschaweck7625]

I'm with you there can't fly for nothing lol think it was him that was flying me around during the charity rust event he is a God on the helicopter

[@azmirahman6387]

Hopefully one day there will be an elaborative video about flying mini with best sens/dpi together with keyboard overlay and hand-cam.

[@mrrikx]

Can vouch, the admins are amazing such as Steele. I have been in the server for 2 weeks now and everyone is so kind and always willing to help. Koala is a G but KillerClaus is something else...

[@KillerClaus]

Mannnn what did I do?

[@tilidie5272]

ok i thought i was quite good at flying til i saw this, THE DUDE FLIES UPSIDE DOWN!!!

[@HrDoktorBillerbeck]

That server is constantly full now 😂

[@evansgate]

I burned through 2250 scrap in like 10 mins because I was trying to get a hang of it. I'm better than I was but I still crash pretty quickly. I then learned about those flying servers and also suck at those lol. Flying is a fun mechanic in Rust though

[@hendytendy5972]

Awesome vid Sig

[@netunooog]

I learned how to fly this update because new heli. took me 20min practicing at bandit. No im not doing tricks but I can takeoff from hills/ go fast af and stop with out losing to much altitude. My heli base was outside some messed up terrain so had to get good or lose the heli. ps had no idea I could use ctrl . That would of helped a bit.

[@kosmonautofficial296]

This was awesome! Wow I have never seen someone fly that good

[@enurfase]

Koala is awesome!

[@haleyxo2336]

Amazingly made! I’m very glad to see people wanting to learn more on how to precisely fly in rust as well as have some fun learning to do tricks on the server. ❤

[@StudioPLAYERS]

I remember when they added those things and I tried to fly for the first time. Obviously, I screw it up and blew the helicopter xD

[@KingR1313]

This is the video I need

[@d3f3nd3r4]

Bro we need KoalaKopters EU :v

[@enurfase]

LOVED THE VIDEO, SUBBED! GREAT INTRO, GREAT OUTRO.....LOVED IT!

[@evilmonkeygaming7200]

dam those skills

[@sambal777]

I have a couple k hours in Arma mostly just flying helicopters and it translated to Rust minicopter so well i never really had to practice with it. Those stunt tricks are a whole other thing though ;D

[@idahodreams]

Haha thanks for this video the server I play on has minis on the road and I've been super scared because I always insta crash. Maybe I'll practice a bit and use this wipe

[@diane8996]

Didn't cover the important part of flying that people have issues with, and that is turning. If you want to go left, press A on your keyboard and move your mouse right. It sounds counter-intuitive, but what you're doing is leaning your helicopter to the side with the A key while stopping it from rolling over by moving the mouse to the right.

[@bhartley1024]

One of us has an axis inverted, because I move the mouse to the left while pressing a to turn left.

[@nahuelfranciscopaez2876]

Omg this is a great video thanks for uploading this content, I learned a lot🙌🙌

[@Danolinithe1st]

that bass at the start intro nearly killed my speakers fml bro pls never again xD

[@waffle5745]

ive actually been on this server to train flying didnt know it was the number 1 rust pilot's server though lol

[@LSFprepper]

Ive long since lost count how many minis ive trashed but i have gottwn decent with operating them. A lot of these concepts are familiar to me but id never claim to be even close to that skill level. I think ive done a full backflip. Once. Lol.

[@goon-705]

Reminds me of rocket jumping in tf2 if you've ever played

[@rockosgaminglogic]

Actually, W is upward force, not rotor speed increase. S is downward force. You can modify these in a plugin to modify heli power. None of the plugins modify the downward force, except on my server with a custom plugin. When upside down, S for downward force is now going to keep you flying. If it was rotor speed decrease, you could not fly upside down. You practice until you get it right. Then you TRAIN until you can't get it wrong.

[@SockerConny80]

I thought I was hot shit on a mini.. Guess I'm a complete brick 🤣

[@TKBreaksTheRules]

W video

[@imstillquinten]

damn a few years ago on koalas server he was helping me and my friend how to fly minis he spawned in chinook and lemme fly it and stuff it was fun then i came back to the server for like around a solid week or so like a few months ago and my username was koalas brother or sum and koala later hopped on and yea i cant even remember what happened after that tho tbh we had a convo thats all i remember nice dude right there koala a W

[@timucintarakc2281]

i like videos containing "rust's best" in the tittle.

[@hillzy721]

wanna see more as always

[@statitica5662]

The things which made the biggest difference for me, personally, were the commands "input.vehicle_flipy 1" and "input.vehicle_sensitivity 0.7"

[@albertthescientist]

Yeah „best community“ for koala copter. Whenever I go there and spawn a scrappy ALL people who are close try to crash their minis into me, while screaming allahu akbar.

[@piotrlason1641]

Arma Heli guys ----->

[@sethg4584]

Heeey

[@HamRadioQso]

like me, i have over 5000 hours and avoid the mini. i just started giving it a go. i suck lol

[@slluxxx]

Having played Battlefield 2 and GTA 4, i think flying the mini is extremly easy. I mean just flying, not making some tricks

[@coltentackett892]

W and s aren't speeding up or slow ing down the blade. Its changing the AOA of the blade to make it take a positive cut w or a negative cut s engine speed never changes

[@Hullakajood]

Did not know holding Ctrl let's you drive the thing around 🤭

[@vvtente]

the adwoman command was so silly

[@BootyYeeter]

Great video!

[@anubis7589]

Here i was hoping this would be a advanced flight guide 😬

[@anubis7589]

@@sigbog im just struggling with tire taps, i cant fully get them idk why

[@Sharkwedge]

I never played a single round rust without getting a headshot from a Revolver from like 2km distance or other shit xD Gud gayme

[@shallyia4458]

Part of me wishes the heli wasn't literally the most effective transport medium for monuments, events, and whatnot, cause it's probably the worst iteration of helicopter controls I've ever seen in a game. I have like 700 hours in the game, and I have yet to bother with learning the controls, cause they're so bad.

[@JCNY718]

Exactly what I needed

[@KaigaiBro]

bro ill be damn if i ever try flipping that 750 scrap loool flying a heli was the first thing i did in rust (CoD and BF pilot main) the controls are similar to choppers on other fps games but the fact that i have to pay for them makes me not want to risk it all haha

[@TicketyTy]

Love the video