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.
You can lose a wanted level in a number of ways.Ambulance missions are easy and very profitable.