Have you tried harvesting the platforms? You don't need a contract to do that just get close enough and your vehicle will automatically pull resources out. Are you able to generally fly the aircraft around? Were you able to switch the view?
I heard some noises when I flew over the blue ones but I'm not sure how to see what that did and yeah I'm actually getting the hang of flying pretty well and I use Tab like you said to see the top down view of the screen.
