LETS BEGIN

Now that you have gone through the Intro and Understanding helicopter portion, you get to move on to the fun stuff now. How about a couple tips to start with. When you first begin flying the helicopters, I bet you were viewing your flight through the cockpit view with the instruments all there and you were watching through a small portion around the panel. No good. TIP 1: Fly from the virtual cockpit view. You do this to start with and until you feel comfortable flying IFR (Instrument flight rules). 

Flying in the virtual cockpit will give you much better visibility to reference your helicopter's position relevant to objects, such as real flying. Some of the helicopters don't have any portion of the panel in the virtual cockpit view and some do. TIP 2: Prior to take off place your mouse cursor on the point of the horizon on the screen. Doing this will help give you a reference point in relationship to the nose of the aircraft to indicate level, when no instruments are viewed. From this point you are feeling the helicopter and taking in input from what you're viewing. Without adding instruments in the equation, it allows limited input to concentrate on to master flight. Once you get the FEEL for the helo, then you can play around with the different instrument clusters available while flying.  The cursor will stay in place through your flight in FS 98 but I noticed in FS 2000 it disappears.

From the Cockpit