Always remember to pull in your landing gear when taking off.
You don’t need to push it all the time, but you’ll have to press it from time to time to remain airborne.
Remember that when you push the throttle (forward), you keep gaining altitude.
Note: the plane will shake a lot when you do this, so keep guiding it to remain level.
You can turn by using the rudder, but it’s much easier to dip to either left and right and then pulling up on the pitch-controls to turn.
(Moving the camera will be useful sometimes when flying a helicopter, but very rarely) Unless you have both hands on the keyboard while flying a plane, it’s gonna get difficult.
Secondly, never ever use the mouse while flying a plane.
Firstly, turn off mouse-steering from the Options Menu if it happens to be turned on.
If you have an arms shortage, you can run down enemy gang-members, Ballas or Vagos, and collect their weapons.
Early on you can earn extra money by completing ambulance side-missions or by killing drug-dealers (these are the black men in black tops wearing skullies or white guys in white hoodies that stand around in the middle of a street).
Look for it and pick up body-armour before starting a mission.
There’s a free body-armour pick-up near almost every save-point in the game except the Johnson House, the Abandoned A.C.
Getting a new haircut, buying new clothes or re-spraying the car removes the wanted level. If they’re too far away to make it safely, get to a barbershop, a clothes store or a Pay N Spray. If your wanted level is two or more stars, then you should head to a safe-house or a save point. If you only have a one-star wanted level, simply keep driving around and you’ll eventually lose it (even with the cops on your tail).
You can lose a wanted level in a number of ways.
Ambulance missions are easy and very profitable.
You can complete ambulance missions to earn money early on.
However, do not have a weapon or a spray-can in hand when you enter a station or else you will get a wanted level.
You can visit a police-station to find some free body-armour.
This way if you fail a mission by being Wasted or Busted, you don’t have to wait for the whole info schtick to play out.
Visit the Police Station and Hospital and pick up the info blocks.
General tips Things to do before you start playing:
Translator’s Rants & Reviews Ranting about translations and reviewing them.
The New Adventures of He-Man Episode Ratings.
Quick Movie Reviews Movie reviews in a few sentences.
Review & Revisit These are games I’ve reviewed in the past, reposted for posterity.