User Guide

8
Terms We Use
Just to avoid confusion, here are the meanings of a few common terms that we use
throughout this manual:
Click Click the left mouse button once.
Select Click the named option.
Double Click Click the left mouse button twice in quick succession.
Right Click Click the right mouse button once.
FLY NOW
The Fly Now option is for those folks who just want to jump right into a helicopter and
fly. Select this option from the Main menu to start an action-oriented battle using the
current difficulty settings.
After you click Fly Now, you go directly to the pre-flight briefing. You’ll be assigned at
random to fly the AH-64D, the WAH-64, the Eurocopter Tiger, or the Mi-28. You can
alter your flight path using the Mission Planning button and change your weapons
loadout using the Arming button. (The details on how to do these things are in the
Mission Planning and Loading Weapons portions of the Campaign section,
respectively.) When you’ve configured your flight, click the Take Off button in the upper
right corner.
TRAINING
For those of you whose attack helicopter skills are a little rusty, Gunship! provides
training sessions to help you get back up to speed. Select Training from the Main
menu to reach the Training Mission screen.
The training missions are designed to help you learn to fly and fight a helicopter from
the pilot’s seat. The Gunship! Quick Start guide was written to compliment this training.
It can be helpful to read the corresponding section while you’re flying each mission.
Don’t worry about getting shot down; enemy fire doesn’t damage you during training.
Select a mission by clicking it, watch the training movies, read the basic briefing, then
click the Take Off button to enter the mission and begin.