Quick turns - Cut your engines and bank sharply in a direction, then engage them again to pull out quickly.Take off - Engage the engines and direct the plane up immediately without turning, then turn around when you have height.Switch your view - Flying your plane in third-person is much easier than first unless you are trying to spot enemy planes.If you cannot wrap your head around flying, doing so may help you out.Ī few tricks you should learn to get by in the skies include the following: We found it MUCH easier to adjust to the controls once we switch to "southpaw" plane controls. Flying a plane is not the most natural thing in Battlefield, and ignorance can be dangerous: touching any grounded object will destroy a plane and result in a suicide, and just a few enemy bullets will down the craft with you inside. This is absolutely the fastest way to reach flags at the start of a game.įirst time pilots would do well to play through the flying tutorial (it becomes available during the tutorial after capturing the first flag - just hop in a plane). You can shoot on your way down or drop explosives. You can ditch planes in mid air, then double-tap jump to open a parachute. Planes only appear at landing strips at home bases (two of them) with an additional plane at one other point on each map at a highly contested air strip. Planes are definitely the preferred method of fast transportation, as exemplified by the many soldier waiting in line for them to spawn.