How to vertically take off in VTOL aircraft?

In Project Reality BF2 there are Harriers and Opsreys and maybe more VTOL aircraft.

How do I properly do a vertical take off with these?

I tried pressing the S key to start hovering and gain some height and then pressing W to generate forward thrust but it takes very long to get the thrust up and reach enough speed for the aircraft to start flying so that I loose a lot of height in this process and often simply crash.

I guess there must be a better way.

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For the Ospreys getting some height in hovering mode and then tipping the nose to get some speed and going over to horizontal flight (as suggested by @sommerjj) works really well. For the harriers not so much.

If found a guide at the PR forums though. It states four steps to do a vertical take off:

1. Gain at least 120 m of height in vertical mode.
2. Open throttle to 100%
3. Point nose up (30 to 40 degrees). This is apparently the most important step.
4. Pull up hard as soon as you have horizontal speed.

This works rather well although it's probably not very realistic.