I rather complain about defenders who never go to secure the mcom stations when they are being attacked and rather just snipe people :)

Im the guy who takes the helicopter n dies...IM TRYING TO LEARN :'(

" Helicopters are evil, they are doing the right thing. "

" Has anybody ran into these fools?  Take off in the helicopter, then slam it into a building 5ft away?"

LOL... i tried to use the helicopter once... swerved everywhere and finished up in a building :S never tried that again for the sake of the team :) I will try again though when the game releases either online or offline and whoever complains about it... well... fuck you!

I always crash into things immediately and then get blown up shortly after.
 
:C

I can't pilot a helicopter or drive a tank  to save my life, but I'm a pretty good shot on the support gunner seat.

The best way to learn is to play campaign and practice when no one can laugh at you. So until then we all have to deal with the major amounts of suck when it comes to pilots.

I have nothing bad to say about shitty chopper pilots. They supply many, many laughs during matches.

LAUGH OUT LOUD
 
Yeah, some guys just are not that good at driving in a video game. I'd be also worried about them in real life.

Yeah plenty. Usually the people that rush for the chopper and get in first are ALWAYS the ones that have no idea what they are doing at all. Its best to not even attempt to get in with random pilots I've realized, because they almost always are terrible. I trust myself, and my friends I play with to pilot a chopper, no one else.
 
It gets very old when people run to it just to get in first, when you know you could of done some serious damage and stayed alive pretty much forever in it and they die in 5 seconds and waste the chopper spawn all together.

" The best way to learn is to play campaign and practice when no one can laugh at you. So until then we all have to deal with the major amounts of suck when it comes to pilots. "

For the peeps who haven't seen the awesome power of a failed helicopter pilot.
 
 

You know, there's nothing wrong with keeping the heavy armour in the back to provide support. Driving it directly into the base is a sure-fire way of getting three RPGs up your tailpipe. Staying back to pound the objective buildings, or merely provide a massive barrage of suppressing fire, is probably the most effective use of the tank.

It is fucking funny when you see the copter take off and crash and the other guy riding shotgun is all pissed.  Maybe it would not happen as much if the controls were better, seriously, battlefield has retarded flight controls, especially on planes.  But its still funny when it happens on purpose.

" For the peeps who haven't seen the awesome power of a failed helicopter pilot.
 
 

 

"

My problem is/was that the controls didn't offer an invert option for choppers separate from UAVs. Also the lack of different sensitivity bars makes tanks turrets super duper fucking slow, on PC.
 
So I think the controls are the issue and not so much the driver TRYING to slam into things.

I love running into these people. For the most part, because I don't give a crap about camping the helicopter, so when I see one fail it's hilarious. 

That video is hilarious.
 
Personally, I'd take gettin a laugh outta that over hearing some douche-bag rag him out over the mic for "wasting a helicopter" any time.

" Has anybody ran into these fools?  Take off in the helicopter, then slam it into a building 5ft away?  Take the tank, sit it 5,000ft away from the objectives and shoot aimlessly towards the orange huds on the map, while your team is getting slaughtered by an APC?  Please feel free to rant on them, and or add simlar retarded situations. "

I gotta admit I crashed the heli into a building my first time. Second time I realized how the controls work and made less of a fool of myself. Still, it was a funny moment.

 
LOL this post is so about me........except i drove my helicopter into the ocean lol, so now i just stay on ground!!!

You can't blame people if they crash the helicopter (unless it was obvious they were messing around) since you aren't even told how to fly it.

" You can't blame people if they crash the helicopter (unless it was obvious they were messing around) since you aren't even told how to fly it. "

" Has anybody ran into these fools?  Take off in the helicopter, then slam it into a building 5ft away?  Take the tank, sit it 5,000ft away from the objectives and shoot aimlessly towards the orange huds on the map, while your team is getting slaughtered by an APC?  Please feel free to rant on them, and or add simlar retarded situations. "

A guy got into a helicopter flew 20ft away hit a building flipped upside and exploded.  So yes I have.

I am fully competent chopper pilot. However, one instance did make me feel like an idiot. I was going through my attack runs when I though that I had taken a bit too much damage. My gunner was an engineer, so I had too go land for him to jump out and repair. I decided to land on the docks behind the fuel silos and the building under construction. I descended slowly and steadily, however I was in cockpit view and could not see my tail drifting into the large fuel silo. The next thing I know, the tail made contact, the chopper shifted a little and I exploded.

I'm glad I got my helicopter practice out of the way playing BF: Modern Combat. Sadly, now I keep killing my own choppers by switching to the rpg instead of the repair kit.

" You know, there's nothing wrong with keeping the heavy armour in the back to provide support. Driving it directly into the base is a sure-fire way of getting three RPGs up your tailpipe. Staying back to pound the objective buildings, or merely provide a massive barrage of suppressing fire, is probably the most effective use of the tank. "

Yeah wtf is wrong with people?
Your supposed to just throw C4 on the chopper then give the pilot math questions when he flies away,
-Whats the square root of 42? 
-Whats the square root of 42?
-Pilot- What the fuck are you talking about?
-WRONG!!!
*BOOM*

" @Andypwnedyou said:

" Has anybody ran into these fools?  Take off in the helicopter, then slam it into a building 5ft away?  Take the tank, sit it 5,000ft away from the objectives and shoot aimlessly towards the orange huds on the map, while your team is getting slaughtered by an APC?  Please feel free to rant on them, and or add simlar retarded situations. "

No offense, but...welcome to the Battlefield series. When you play on servers with scrubs who have no fucking clue how to fly planes or helicopters, or stat-whores who just want to pad their medal count and damn the rest of their team, this is what happens. It happens quite often, whether you're playing BF2, BF2142, or BF:BC2. "

maybe they are still learning to fly the chopper, and as for sniping with a tank its the best way to keep your tank alive while getting some kills.

" I am fully competent chopper pilot. However, one instance did make me feel like an idiot. I was going through my attack runs when I though that I had taken a bit too much damage. My gunner was an engineer, so I had too go land for him to jump out and repair. I decided to land on the docks behind the fuel silos and the building under construction. I descended slowly and steadily, however I was in cockpit view and could not see my tail drifting into the large fuel silo. The next thing I know, the tail made contact, the chopper shifted a little and I exploded. "

" Yeah wtf is wrong with people? Your supposed to just throw C4 on the chopper then give the pilot math questions when he flies away, -Whats the square root of 42?  -Whats the square root of 42?-Pilot- What the fuck are you talking about? -WRONG!!!*BOOM* "

Most games I am in the pilots suck (like me), but I have seen a few really good pilots and that Apache causes problems in the right hands.  I did manage to take one out with an RPG though and that felt pretty damn awesome.  The Blackhawk seems pretty useless/harmless though: I used the door gun once and It was really tough to aim while moving at any safe speed.

" Im the guy who takes the helicopter n dies...IM TRYING TO LEARN :'( "

Nothing wrong with two guys in a tank staying at the end of the line and killing/spotting the defenders, no point rushing in and getting RPGs, C4s and ATs thrown at your face, plus your in a tank so you cant arm the objective. Actually the opposite is true, tons of morons grab a tank think they are invincible and charge in the enemy base and die

Well I never really got the heli in Bad Company 1 and in the Bad Company 2 demo I think I tried to fly it once. In my defense how am I supposed to learn how to fly it if I never get in one.

Try flying helicopters in the original Desert Combat mod for 1942. These helicopters in BC2 practically fly themselves.

To learn how to fly helis you just have to put some time into it.
 
In BF2 I fiddled around with the controls, and I settled on using the arrow keys. I can move the heli around, but landing is still a problem for me.
 
The helis in BC2 are much easier, once you learn what the controls do.
 
I practiced in unranked BC1 servers, and now I am pretty good with the apache, I switched the controls to BC1 just because that is what I am used to.

I practiced in unranked BC1 servers, and now I am pretty good with the apache, I switched the controls to BC1 just because that is what I am used to. "

I tried piloting a helicopter once in the demo. I remember being stoked to get a chance to fly one, since people always take them as soon as they spawn. I must have been in the helicopter for a total of five seconds before I flipped it upside down and blew it up, killing both myself and the daredevil who decided to ride shotgun with me. I decided to stick to ground vehicles from then on.

 You would think people would realize that if  you crash a chopper every time you get in one you should either GTFO or  switch to the gunner position.
I can fly transport/support chopper just fine but not the attack choppers and the jets,so I dont even try.  I like being a gunner more than I enjoy flying I'll just leave that to the pros.
 
I always used to get a good laugh out of the determined morons knifing each other in bf2 over who gets the jet. until i was running past them and got knifed myself.  Tanks are a whole different ball game If you cant drive one you should just quit playing altogether or be on the other team ,)

Bad helicopter pilots are good to have for the hilarity of seeing random choppers fall out of the sky or fly into the out of bounds area a second after taking off.