There is an excellent helicopter tutorial in the help section on this site (somewhere)  It is for FS2000 but it all applies to fs2k2.  With helicopters you have to be even more gentle than with fixed wing.  Make small control movements and thottle setting changes.

I am still trying to fly the damned things (with little success) after 18 months.  With practice it is possible to take off and land just about anywhere.  I have found the best way of learning is to start at an airport out in the sticks and just practice taking off and landing.  When you can land successfully then start trying to hover. 

Best of luck

Will

Go to the links page from the front page here and you'll find a couple. I learnt with the hoversafe academy, you'll find a couple of their instructors fly here too. Look out for Cal, he is the man!
But for a simple technique, increase the throttle and nose down to gain forward speed. To stop, lessen the throttle gently and pull back on the stick to nose up. You'll loose speed. Then just before you stop (or end up going backwards) get the nose level again and balance the throttle so you are hovering.

Ozzy

Ah, you should have watched Airwolf and Blue Thunder Fozzer, you'd have learnt much
That is where my first passion for helicopters really sprang from... That and an incredible flight in a JetRanger through downtown New York as a kid, literally between the buildings That was awesome. It takes a little practice is all.

Mark

to me It take very log time I just be able to take of and to land on an ruway but like an aircraft. nut now I can do some very low altitude fly (at the altitude I can fly you can't raise your gear down because it will touch before it is out. lol) but I keep practicing taking off and landing. but the jetranger is the worset helicopter i have seen in FS2002. the best I though is the daulphin from "Antti Pankkonen " (page 14 of Fs2002 helicopter on simviation) he'is difficult to intall but really easy to fly if you are smouth with the command. I will told you for training you will make good to take some eurocpter (squirell dauphin) or big helicos because they are less instable than little.
and if you want to training you have some lesson in FS98 (old yes but it is the last with helicos lesson )

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I have to agree with Fozzer on this one. With both hands, (and feet), occupied, there's very little else a chopper pilot can do execpt fly the thing. (Put's a dent in your "Mile High Club" activities, too! 

If you really want a first person singular trip through the in's and out's of helos, find a copy of the movie "Firebirds" with Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones.

That'll get your cyclic collective, boy!!

I got to the stage with the default thing where I could hover,move left and right and land then gave up as too hard.
Then I saw the local news chopper flying a cameraman to cover a fly-in for CoF. I'm sure the P#*^%(PILOT) deliberately put on a show to upstage the fixed wing stuff. Anyway it was impressive flying control,enough to have me eyeing those Heli files again.