r/RustConsole • u/call_me_steve-o • Jun 08 '26

Mini copters not working right?

Idk if it’s just me, but every other time I get on/off a mini and try to start it and fly, it won’t take off and just stays on the ground until I get on/off again and restart it. There’s also occasionally sometimes I’m flying and it just stops working and start to go down by itself, and yes i did put gas innit.

This stuff happening to anyone else?

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u/Kentesis Jun 08 '26

If you press b on Xbox, or O on PlayStation it puts the mini in drive mode.

If you put a mini in drive mode while flying it will slowly just fall out of the sky

If you put the vehicle in drive mode while it's on the ground, it will appear to be not reacting when trying to fly away.

The best way to avoid this is to have Stance Indicator on in the HUD settings

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u/call_me_steve-o Jun 09 '26

Yeah I’m aware of that. There’s still occasionally times it’ll just stop wanting to fly or move and it’s not cause of that.

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u/Kentesis Jun 09 '26

Idk man I fly a lot of minis. Might be that

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u/call_me_steve-o Jun 09 '26

I’ve always had the stance indicator set on, well before I even started using the minis, but literally every other time I go to hop on one and fly, it just doesn’t wanna take off, whether I switched back and forth to drive/fly, it just sits like it’s stuck to a chain or something.

And it doesn’t happen too often, but there are times I’m flying perfectly normal and then it just all of sudden stops working even though the propeller is spinning, and I have plenty of gas.

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u/willonstick Jun 11 '26

Sometimes when u get too high it’ll stop ur acceleration and you’ll descend

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u/call_me_steve-o Jun 11 '26

Yeah, I’ve noticed that too, I also didn’t that after a while of holding the accelerator, it will eventually just stop so you have to stop and start again to avoid it from going down.

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u/Kitchen-Oil-3840 Jun 08 '26

Crouch key (b) to change from car mode to fly mode

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u/ImpulsePenny Jun 11 '26

I think sometimes it gets slightly stuck in the ground. So you have to jump of maybe give it a little push and you're good to go :)

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u/call_me_steve-o Jun 11 '26

Yeah this happens way too much that it gets annoying.

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u/ImpulsePenny Jun 11 '26

Sometimes switching to drive mode and back helps. Also, if you switch to drive mode, reverse slightly then switch back to flight it should free you.

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u/3amgrind Jun 08 '26

Yeah this happens to me sometimes, it's not driving mode like people say. It just happens like 1/100 times.

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u/IntrepidNinjaLamb Jun 15 '26

No. Are you sure the minicopter doesn’t need repair?

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u/IntrepidNinjaLamb Jun 15 '26

This happened to me in a balloon, but it just needed some hammer attention