Why can’t you find the helicopter controls?

The axes are under Settings, not Keybindings

This is the answer for most people who arrive here. You open Keybindings, look for pitch and roll, and they are not there — because the helicopter mouse axes live under Settings instead. Nothing in the menu tells you that, which is why the question keeps being asked on Reddit and in Steam threads rather than answered once. The community FAQ that documents this also offers a starting point of roughly 60–65% for helicopter pitch and roll sensitivity. Read that as one player’s starting point, which is how the FAQ itself frames it, and not as a recommended value — nobody official has published a range.

Spacebar is already doing something

The same FAQ reports that Spacebar carries a hidden helicopter weapon function which the visible keybindings do not expose and cannot clear. The practical consequence is narrow and worth knowing before you rebind anything: in an armed helicopter, a flight control bound to Spacebar can fire. Until that is fixed, the FAQ’s advice is to keep flight controls off Spacebar entirely. This is a reported behaviour in a pre-release build, not a documented feature, and BULKHEAD has not acknowledged it.

One key cannot do two jobs

Also reported: WARDOGS currently treats some custom bindings as globally exclusive, so a key assigned to an infantry action will not also take a vehicle action. If you are used to layering an on-foot layout and a cockpit layout over the same fingers, that is the thing that will not work. To clear a binding at all, the FAQ describes Settings › Controls › Keybindings, selecting the assigned key, and pressing Delete — there is no visible unbind button.

• Unbind: Settings › Controls › Keybindings › select the key › Delete
• A key bound to an infantry action will not also serve a vehicle action
• Helicopter pitch and roll sensitivity: Settings, not Keybindings

Flight Assists is a master switch

There is a single Flight Assists toggle rather than a set of them. The FAQ’s account is that experienced pilots turn it off for more freedom and accept a helicopter that is harder to stabilise — which is a description of a trade, not a recommendation, and it is the only description of the flight model in circulation. No official statement describes what the assists actually do.

What BULKHEAD has published about flying

Very little, and it is worth separating from the above. Helicopters appear throughout official footage and screenshots. One is named in the studio’s own text — the Littlebird, which the Supporter Pack listing sells a “Taxi” camo for. And transporting friendlies to the Control Zone is one of the three actions BULKHEAD names as paid, which is the studio saying, in the only way it has, that flying a full cabin is a job rather than a joyride. No handling figure, no keybind, no price for any aircraft has ever been published.

The helicopters anyone has a record of

Three, at three different grades. The Littlebird is official — BULKHEAD names it. The Mi-28 Havoc and the Huey come from a beta guide by the outlet that also recorded the weapons vendor screen, so their figures are Early Access Beta records rather than launch values, and the outlet disclaims them itself. The Havoc’s $500,000 is the largest single figure anyone has recorded for anything in this game, and even its unlock level is disputed between two articles by that same outlet.

What to do with a page made of player reports

Use it to find the menu, then trust your own build over this page. Everything specific here was written against Closed Beta 02 and you are playing the Early Access build, so a setting may have moved and a bug may have been fixed. That is not a reason to withhold it — it is the only account of these controls that exists, and “the axes are under Settings” saves a genuinely annoying ten minutes. It is a reason to say plainly that no part of this is the developer talking.

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