Squad Helicopter Guide | The Basics | J-Hook Landings, Flight controls, and Gameplay Tips
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Today we've got a Squad Heli guide covering everything you need to know to pilot a chopper. We'll cover terminology, controls, basic landings, j-hooks, and much more. I hope this guide helps you build the knowledge and confidence to start flying in live games. Thanks for watching! Come join the community using the links below.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Terminology and Controls
3:27 - In-flight Mechanics
4:23 - Landings
4:47 - Slow Bleed off Landing
5:50 - The J-Hook Landing
7:18 - Live examples and Hand cam
8:21 - Staying Calm under pressure
8:52 - Maneuvering your Heli for Radio placement or supplies
9:39 - Choosing a LZ
11:11 - Important In-flight Principles
12:06 - Dropping Supplies & keybinds
12:39 - Build trust with your teammates
13:26 - Stay proactive
13:53 - Outro
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A tip I forgot to put into this video, is everyone has the ability to go into the training range and change the map. This way you can practice flying and landing on the maps you'll actually be playing. To do this you hit your tilde key (the key right above your tab key) and enter "AdminChangeLayer (whatever map/layer you want)." So if you wanted to fly on Kohat and use the British Puma you would type in "AdminChangeLayer Kohat_RAAS_v4." Hope this helps you guys out!
Thanks!
almost immediately after switching from the stinky heli training to an actual map I figured out low altitude flight, landing, and momentum control. the heli training is good for learning the controls but not for much else
Thank you!
How would you say this is versus battlefield 2 helos, as far as general flight?
"british" puma *laugh in french*
Played this through my mic while transporting a squad, got a good kcik of how scared they were lmao.
It has been a month since this was released and since then I have gone from crashing leaving the landing pad to being able to hot drop troops on 50m fields without crashing. So for anyone wondering whether or not this guide is good, I can say that this guide and the advanced guide are both amazing with absolute certainty.
Thank you so much for sharing! I love to hear people's success stories!
I used to be so good at piloting before V.2, but it is so much more difficult to lose speed now, thanks for the video!
Thank you! Yeah it feels like your flying a sack of bricks nowadays compared to before.
Duuuude SAME. I stopped playing after the update because I couldn't figure it out... I didn't conceptualize what had changed & wasn't using max collective to slow momentum in J turns. After watching this it all clicked - thanks so much!
You just got my sub, this is what I was looking for thanks for the info and tips. Been destroying dozens of helicopters in the training area, but your clear directions were exactly what I needed.
Thank you for posting this! I have been getting better and using the training site with your video to help. Thanks for helping make this game easier to understand a learn!
i’ve been playing squad for 2 days, I needed this, I could already turn mid-flight and take off well and some-what land but I wanted to learn how to J-hook so I can hot drop this video is helping a lot
Honestly the best and most straightforward tutorial ever. I watched it and pretty much mastered the art after about a day's work. THANK YOU!!
Just want to say thank you. I needed only a day with the tutorial and your video to be able to fly. I played 2games and supplied with 0 crashes. Even survived gunfire with engine almost gone and smoking
Pretty useful guide for new players, I'm now going to watch the second part. With only 30 hours on the game I started piloting yesterday, crashed a few times but as time progressed I managed to get supplies to the frontline as requested without problem.
You've done a wonderful job , you speak clearly and calmly which makes it easily understandable even for non-English speakers.
I'm not going to say everything that has been said because the whole video is very well done
A big congratulations!
the quality of this content you push out is honestly the best I've seen from someone who hasn't have a large fan base. from the quality of the video's I thought you had way more subs but man you deserve a lot more subs then you do now. Keep up the amazing work and ill be sure to stick around and learn some new tips and tricks from you
These types of comments mean the world to me, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I'm blessed to be at the point I am already, but I'm constantly working on improving my quality and consistency to grow further. Thank you again, and I'll keep bringing as much helpful content as I can to the channel!
The key for me was to understand collective (W and S). In every other game it is something that you have to keep pressing, either for going up (W) or for going down (S), while here you have to stablish it (press it, not hold it) and change it all the time. Basically, i'm watching this again but just looking at the collective bar, changing all the time.
Oh, and i just read the comment below, where you say you can change the map. That's so great! Thank you!
Great video! And good to see my HAL principles (at 11:15) coming into others' flying tutorials too. Arma flight principles definitely apply to Squad!
Oh my goodness those J hook landings are insane. Just recently got back into flying in squad. I was an above average pilot before the heli flight model changes and after them… I’m barely average lol. It’s amazing to see those j hook landings which I no longer thought were possible with the new flight model and then you just make it look easy. Thanks so much for all of the guides! They are really easing me back into squad after my break.
Keep up the fantastic work with the guides Gorlami. Love all you content
Thank you so much dude!
Finally! Thanks for the amazing guide, and top tier work as always.
Thank you so much!
i will try that now and keep you updated!
10 hours of flight time max. one look at your jhook guide, did it first try. you are a wizard my friend
Great guide, hope it'll be of use to me, once I actually pass through the hoops in the training area.
What a good video!!! Thanks m8! Imma hop over to the training range again and keep on training :D
Thanks man, really helpful!
A year on from watching this video, and i've basically mastered J-hooks and just moving around in the heli. I can even do barrel rolls and off axis flips without crashing 98% of the time now!
Thankyou for getting me started on the journey. It certainly was hard and embarrassing to begin with!
great video I will try use these tactics in my next match.
Thank you, very helpful!
Story time, im a top 500 Battlefield 2042 Heli pilot Hailing from the lands on Xbox (JoDiirt). I just built my PC on Sunday, and im addicted to Squad already. Naturally, after picking up on the infantry gameplay, i NEEDED to touch the choppers. Quickly found out they are nothing alike lmfao, but after your videos brother, one sleepless night, setting up a controller for flying and 4 hours in the training range, i am ruling the skies. Appreciate you buddy❤
Thanks, dude! You're golden.
thats sick dude
Thanks - that's a great guide you crammed together there!
Thank you!
Great re view 👍
Great guide! This is helping me a ton
Thank you! Glad to hear it!
I literally watched all your videos over the last 3 days. Amazing content, thank you.
Thank you so much. Your comment means a lot to me. Been putting a ton of time and work into them, so I'm ecstatic that people like yourself are finding them and are able to learn a bunch of new things.
@@Gorlami14 it's also really apparent how good your mindset is. I'm pretty sure you've worked on yourself a lot to get to this point, am I right? :D I love people that do self-improvement :)
I remember the first time I witnesses the J-hook as an infantrymen. It was beautiful
Thanks, good video.
Thank you!
Yo, this is where I need to get to. Thinking about ditching the controller and doing this by hand. Cuts out some of the immersion but if I can fly again could be worth it.
Yeah M&K isn't the coolest, but you can maneuver really well and consistently with it.
I did some hours of training with the chopper, then I thought I was ready and went into a populated server. At my first go, I was ordered to escort one and a half squad. Due to me being scared, I went up several hundred meters and just dropped my collective to 0 from there (using the landing camera); I think our chopper took fire from all enemies on the map during these minutes it took the chopper to reach the ground, and by then non of us were alive.
Just did the same thing and lost my team the match and any hope they had.. felt bad and went into training and practiced jhooks.
Now I realize I'm woefully unprepared and can't even do a hook properly, going to practice for another hour or two on jensens and then about 5-6 hours on as many maps as I can then I think I'll be even close to ready.
Mega useful, thank you for your work. Flying is hella hard
My pleasure!
Playing as a helicopter pilot it's my dream, I used to play battlefield but damn this looks it's more realistic, I don't have the money to buy a gamer PC but someday I will play this game, nice video.
Nice
Thank you!
This will be very helpful.
Happy to help! Good luck!
there was a time when I had just installed squad and my team needed a heli pilot, I had never piloted one, so I just got the bird, all the troops went in and I managed to fly it and land sucessfully, imagine how happy I was
I really wish the mechanics of heli flight were better in Squad. Fingers crossed that it's on the list of things for the devs.
How is it not good?
10:50 was sheer luck next to that tree. Blades were within inches! No pilot would ever purposely fly that close on purpose, haha.
Lol all skill, I swear! But honestly it goes back to know the dimensions of your bird and being able to understand how close you can get to objects without hitting them.
Always been interested in helicopters, loved flying in arma but only in singleplayer, as if you mess up it has dire consequences. Doubt I’d muster the courage to actually fly helis in real games but I do like flying them myself ;)
There's stepping stones to build your confidence if you did one day want to fly in a live game. I personally forced myself to make 10 successful landings in a row in training, 5 out on the battlefield, 5 at main, before I would allow myself to fly in a live game. Then once in a live games I would fly on layers that had 2 or more helis, so that I could let my team know I'd only be doing supply runs as to not take a full squad down with me. Best of luck to you!
Good communication with other SL and commander is key to survive dropping troops or supply near an objective. You need to know where the enemy is and if any enemy vehicles. Plan B i use if poor intel is to go very fast over the objective first to see where i take fire, then land at a safe distance.
Exactly! Can't tell you how many times I get radioed to drop a new FOB, I ask them to clear the area and check for threats, they give me the all clear, and then once I get over the LZ there's a scout car 50 meters away.
I've watched about ten videos like this so far and yours is by far the most clear, concise, and comprehensive. Thanks so much for taking the time to put it together! I've gotten okay at controlling helis in the air and landing but my J-hooks still suffer a bit, but I think your clear explanation is going to really help me become more smooth and consistent. Can I ask what sensitivity you have your heli pitch/roll set to? I have mine at 2x but thinking maybe it should be a little higher as I need to move my mouse a lot more than you on J-hooks.
Keep your sensitivity where it feels good flying around generally, and then add pitch up to a dedicated key on your kb (I use spacebar). That way, when you start your hook you just press the pitch up button until you hook around.
@@eX0Noah Oh damn that's smart! Thanks for the tip!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that. I have my pitch and roll sensitivity at 1.5 with my mouse dpi at 800. The biggest thing I recommend is picking a sensitivity and sticking with it. Allow yourself to build up the muscle memory with whatever you decide on. Changing it around will force you to have to relearn the movements and will slow your progression down. Keep me updated on how your flying is going!
@@Gorlami14 Put in a couple more hours practice today (rewatching bits of this vid now and then) and yeah, it's been a dramatic improvement! Way smoother, faster, and safer landings! Still working on my accuracy -hitting a helipad from 100+ knots at low altitude is a trick - but I'll get there :P
@@marcus6639 Awesome stuff dude! I still miss the heli pad and LZs constantly. Best thing to do is allow yourself to drop some altitude, raise your collective back to 45 to hover, and slowly work your way over to the pad/LZ. Especially when you're back in main you can take your time getting down. Keep grinding!
I love the community on squad I just tried flying for the first time and when I inevitably crashed they all just laughed didn't get mad or kick me
Used to be a comp pilot in V1, but after not playing V2 almost at all I've lost my touch to some degree to do high speed small lz hotdrops. Doing jhooks now feels like landing backwards now if you got speed now tho
HELI GUIDE!!
I finally learned! Thank you for the comment! Miss you chair!
Great Video Dude! I'm new to Squad (Joined in Free Weekend) and have 32hours in it, but since i love to fly in any game i am learning how to fly heli in Squad too. Pretty good Progess so far, especially since the Controlls are pretty much the same as for the Minicopter in Rust (A game i played a lot before Squad/Still playing a lot). I have a question tho. In Order to make my J-Hook Landings faster i'd like to have the Roll Sensitivity a bit higher, but the Graphs in the Settings for Helicopters just confuse me. Any advice you could give me?
What’s with the mouse? I too have nerve damage and am just curious as to what it does. Thanks for the vid!
I just bought the game & u help's me alot
But how can i built something?
I need to get into flying in Squad, thanks for the video!
Now would be the time seeing as a ton of people need to getting used to it
Do it! It's an absolute blast! Thank you!
I just wish collective was on mouse wheel it would be so much easier to accurately control it for fast or slow corrections
The J Hook in this game feels much easier to do than in Arma 3, spent around 300 hours flying helicopters in Arma and I still struggle to get 100% consistency, but I spent 2 and I can get pretty decent landing. This guide was really helpful!
Is the sensitivity for the controls a big factor in this, also what's a good recommendation for that
I used to love to fly in Project Reality when i wasn't feeling in playing infantry. I hate that Squad flying so much more difficult
I dont use mouse to fly, i changed my setting to rising storm 2 vietnam set up(w a s d q e) and it works on SQUAD well
wish there was option to switch throttle from Toggle to Press, like in PR, when you press W its going up to 100% and when you release W it will go automatically down to 0%, and maybe a separate button to Hover mode ... but overall you can see a lot of crashes in multiplayer matches, even experienced pilots can easily crash
The helicopters are extremely fragile and poorly model helicopters. It's so easy to wreck the helicopter even when going for a slow landing.
This video got me really excited... I re-downloaded the whole game only to find the flight model is garbage and it doesn't support multiple analog controls.
RIP to the brave souls that are about to perish during my J-hook Landing attempts :D
Lol you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.
I got in my very first Squad chopper maybe 20 minutes before watching this video. Yeah, it went that well.
Going to take me a while to be worthy of any trust at all. As it stands it's best not to be on the same server with me. (relax, I'm only flying offline training)
Within an hour of watching this tutorial, I was j-hook landing. Now I just need to get my low flying better. Any tips for maintaining a low elevation?
Any idea why when I add Yaw to mouse it's inverted? Mouse movement right heli nose goes left...
any tips for avoiding being shot down? I can do landings just fine but find myself being shot down the second I enter an area nearby the battlefield
Nice video mate good info in there....im still gonna crash 90%of the time hahah
Thank you! Failure is the best teacher. Take note of what led to you crashing and you'll keep improving!
@@Gorlami14 yeah its always the panic when your still going too fast for the landing but im getting there 😂
@@SEAN_CONOBOY Yeah I still do the same. Don't ever be afraid to pull off and come back around, or if you know you have time level out your pitch and lower your collective to 45. Start the hover and assess what you need to do to get your troops/supplies down safely. Keep working at it dude!
@@Gorlami14 will do mate thanks 👍
Do you have any advice because whenever I join a server all of the hellicoptors are all ready being used. I’m a good pilot with over 70 hours of flight experience so you have any tips to get a hellicoptor in a public game/server
If i drop the supplies where they're going? How to know where to drop them?
And if you unloaded the supplies, how do you get new ones on board?
How do you mark the map while piloting the chopper?
I'm thinking of buying or building a PC specifically to play this game. Is it possible to play this with a controller. I was never good with mouses.
is there a shortcut for unloading ammo and supplies or do you have bring up the interaction menu and unload via mouse hovering?
Watch the video
Important tip that'd save me a lot of time is that if you have experience from previous games make sure to inverse your y axis in mouse sensitivity settings for helicopter, and consider using arrow keys if your mouse is kinda crap. I've tried using arrow keys and I'm extremely conflicted about what the y axis does without changing mouse axis firstt, so much so I feel the need to rewire my brain to work the "right" way using mouse so that I can switch between arrows and mouse.
I like still use e and q from battlefield instead of a d
and good landing practice seems to be just turning low to the ground without gaining or losing altitude, which is kinda j hook landing without trying to hit specific spot. very tight turns with mouse.
Additionally I need anti ghosting keyboard, with more than 3 button inputs for proper turns.
gonna get squad in a month so I can play with my cousin but I wanna fly a heli sometimes
Haven't watched all of the video yet but how is the flying is a similar to Arma 3 or better
Hey Gor!
Hey duck!
hey when i do the focus on the screens my screen becomes blurry and unfocused does anyone know what this is from?
I wish troops could drop a rope down to the ground could choose to deploy down
Can you bind a HOTAS?
0:07 They should update some of the mechanics there, cause THAT drop with heli would be fatal :D bad bad bad
Can you connect a joy stick?
The music in the begining. Where is it from?
when i enter the chopper my cockpit view is so zoomed in when i chanced field of depth nothing chance how do i fix that?
There was nothing wrong with them to begin with. This change has made it much more arcade like.
09:30 I usually prefer having my collective slightly above 45, pitching forward and literally crawling forward with a slow pace
Yeah that's a good method too! I really like doing that on down-slopes and just roll down the hill.
I've found that with the changes to the Heli system, I'm having difficulties with flying low and maintaining that low altitude. Any advice?
Honestly go into the training range, change the map to something like kohat and mess around with trying to fly down the river staying as low as possible. That's what I've done to improve. Learn when you can increase your pitch to get closer to the ground, and when you need to raise it to avoid crashing.
I actually tried it with the flight stick recently. Not too bad... but I don’t think you’ll gain an advantage over the mouse users
Yeah I think for the most part it's just cooler to use a flight stick and makes flying a tad more immersive than M&K.
I have quite a few hours playing as infantry, but I’m thinking of trying to get into flying. I have a joystick that I have mapped, but I am struggling (only a a couple of hours of practice). Should I stick with KB&M (feels so unnatural) or does it just take a while to get good with the controls? Also great videos!
Feels like the game is designed with only enough tolerance for vertical slow landings. Any additional maneuverability you get while using a joystick is lost because of this fact. Landing even at a slight flare can result in a hard landing regardless of the speed.
I see KBM players much more successful in squad because it limit's them to these more basic maneuvers which squad just tolerates more.
Wish they would refine their flight model but seeing how there's only ever 4 pilots at any given time I don't think it's a priority unfortunately.
came from arma 3 and i have to say flying here feels like in bf4 just with more delay
Yeah I can land coming out of a flip on arma but this game just feels like it uses the flight model or an oil tanker.
Helos give me battlefield Vietnam vibes
I may be a master heli pilot in arma, but absolutely CAN NOT fly in squad due to the fixed front cam and forcing you to use your mouse to maneuver. Yes, I use the keyboard to maneuver in arma because I feel SA with mouse freelook is way more important than micro adjustment with mouse control.
The way you control a chopper in Squad, is so arcadey! N that is being nice. They should have the option of a realistic control.
how to do E-Brake?
Im a new pilot and in a month i will describe my progress!
still no progress...
I just did my first j hook landing but not on a helipad on a field and now i cant do it anymore
first j hoook helipad landing yeee
trained 2 hours after this video. stopped crash landing. played in a live server. supplied fobs. I only died once when I tried to jhook right hand side because I only trained for left hand. Killed myself and a squad mate lol
Only if we had little birds, ch47s and fast roping
I did not know about the logi controls
Yeah they are super clutch so you don't have to open the radial menu!
As an experienced arma pilot everything is the same except for the flight model and how picky you have to be with your LZ’s since the rotors are made of glass
As I’ve flown real helicopters I cringed when you said jam the collective down to lose altitude lol.
Lol yeah squad's flight model is so far from realistic
Bro I know what you mean, you'd never EVER be that violent on the collective. I want a game that'll really go harder toward a sim flight model, as well as having properly independent flight control inputs.
gud
Thank you!
its impossible to do i cant i got a dpi of 1000, heli sensitivty on 4 and this bird still wont turn