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.

[@RanDom-if2ee]

Thanks!

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@chuppy6938]

Finally. Been waiting for this vid.. thansk sig

[@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*

[@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.

[@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)

[@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.

[@sgtleska]

This is a great video, Sig. *Salutes*

[@skerder2]

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

[@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

[@petrtomsej6064]

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

[@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

[@kaidzz9358]

good vid man, Kieth is our god btw

[@dizzle2212]

Needed this video - Thank you

[@hendytendy5972]

Awesome vid Sig

[@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

[@maybe4549]

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

[@jacktheripper1270]

made me laugh, worth a like

[@jonajiro]

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

[@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

[@blankspace178]

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

[@mrploppers2269]

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

[@Resinpro]

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

[@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.

[@corey_2096]

My mans koala always be fried bruh loool

[@nahuelfranciscopaez2876]

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

[@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

[@real-babz-tv]

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

[@riomouris4767]

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

[@kosmonautofficial296]

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

[@enurfase]

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

[@JasperVRC]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@ighopfrogged3202]

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

[@michaelfomenko1563]

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

[@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. ❤

[@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.

[@KillerClaus]

W video, W teacher.

[@TheSpeedOfC]

You can fly the mini inverted?? whoa..

[@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.

[@ssttvooo]

shoutout koalakopters lol.

[@KingR1313]

This is the video I need

[@keenengrant9181]

Dude has the concept so down pat he could probably fly a real chopper. And be a killer behind an fpv goggle set!

[@BootyYeeter]

Great video!

[@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.

[@LazyBuddyBan]

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

[@SparrowFPS]

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

[@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

[@pain7704]

10/10 flight instructor

[@cowboy12222]

W Koala

[@MikeU1]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@TicketyTy]

Love the video

[@SockerConny80]

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

[@azmirahman6387]

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

[@ever_grey4468]

Im still waiting. I figured DPI needs to be high af, like 10k + in-game vehicle sensitivity 2.0. Precision support in windows mouse settings also should be disabled, so mouse distance movement is always the same cursor movement. Other than than, i still struggle to have a decent control. Upside down flying is beyond my comprehension.

[@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!!!

[@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

[@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.

[@Danolinithe1st]

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

[@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

[@Robert_Browne]

What DPI setting do you use on your mouse when flying?

[@exaltz]

Hello Sigbog I may be wrong but I believe you made a video a while ago about a way to change your monitor settings with a button to see better at night in rust and I deleted the program and i wanted to match my monitors do you know the program? I can't find the video on your channel.

[@TKBreaksTheRules]

W video

[@xiaoling783]

I am going to enjoy this😊

[@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.

[@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

[@enurfase]

Koala is awesome!

[@Luckshowsup]

That was dope thanks boys

[@statitica5662]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@timucintarakc2281]

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

[@danford6678]

More Koala please

[@waffle5745]

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

[@simonpetersen23]

im good with the mini, but the driving i can´t even tho im holding ctrl. It wont let me drive on the ground, anyone got a command that maybe could help?

[@koalahasyt]

is your crouch key binded to something other than ctrl? The driving is done by hitting whatever key is bound to crouch

[@simonpetersen23]

@@koalahasyt omg ty so much! :D been a problem for the longest time. My crouch is c

[@sOmekine]

flying mini in rust is so fun until your dump ass friend crash it on the first try

[@gabensontv]

The mini copter was one of the best things to ever happen in rust. My next wish would be for the team to make us parachutes in case we need to eject!

[@z1z2z3z]

your wish was granted, :)

[@HrDoktorBillerbeck]

That server is constantly full now 😂

[@MrJuwarra]

i wish someone could teach me just even the basics. I don't care about any tricks,.. just want to be able to fly and land and just be able to control the mini. But no matter how much i try in the flying training servers, i am not getting better at all. I just feel flying in Rust is too difficult. Controls are too sensitive. As i lift off and try to tilt copter forward to start moving, it just inevitably tilts me to either side and usually i just end up making things worse when trying to correct. horizontal axis is too sensitive. And when i lower the sensitivity, i lose also sensitivity for vertical axis thus practically not moving at all and even with sensitivity at minimal, horizontal axis is still so sensitive that even if i really try to move mouse only up or down, i still end up tilting to either side as well and crashing. I wonder why they made piloting in this game so complex and difficult. In every other way Rust doesn't try to be realistic at all, so why piloting have to be like in real life and without any stability aid

[@sigbog]

yea I feel ya, it was a long time before I got the hang of it and I'm still average at best. Having Koala teach me helped a ton and his advice legitimately helped a lot. you do barely need to move the mouse to start pulling yourself in one direction or another, you could try lowering your dpi and just focusing on hovering with little side to side movements until you find something that works. When I first started I was WAY over correcting, slinging my mouse so far when in reality I barely needed to move it. It helped to really spend more time thinking about the rotor direction because mentally I was trying it like a plane which just led to me crashing

[@evilmonkeygaming7200]

dam those skills

[@d3f3nd3r4]

Bro we need KoalaKopters EU :v

[@William0271]

It is mindblowing that there is a video teaching common sense

[@littlechonk6664]

Rust implementing physics from a fucking helicopter, not getting it 100 percent right, then no official "hey here's this and how to do it" for everyone and your saying it's fkn simple? 1000000 hours on rust? Or maybe schooling is just good. Then "common knowledge" gets thrown out of the window

[@William0271]

@@littlechonk6664 W for up, S for down, A and D to spin, mouse movements to tilt is pretty fucking simple and intuitive. The only thing that needs explaining is CTRL for driving on ground. When minicopters came out I joined a build server, spawned one, and figured it out in less than 2 minutes because I'm not braindead.

[@goon-705]

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

[@piotrlason1641]

Arma Heli guys ----->

[@sethg4584]

Heeey

[@ohdaesu9395]

" Anyone for head ? " xD

[@DeuceGenius]

how to fly with 12fps and lag spikes? the lag spikes give you false sounds and visuals.

[@capthishot6375]

Beg for an rtx 10000000090