I like beavers too…
True, it’s not fair to attack the awesome Asobo guys who are doing a great job and, as I said in another post, I’m very grateful for this great simulator …
We are sorry not to see the helicopters soon, but we must accept it, but we must not give up and express our voice strongly. I hope this is an incentive to accelerate their work in developing helicopters
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2022 to be able to fly in a Helicopter !!!
I switched to FS2020 for the sole purpose of flying a helicopter and here is the announcement for 2022!
I am disheartened that I will have to make all of these updates just until 2022.
So I decided to drop FS2020 for a return to P3D.
It’s a shame to have such beautiful scenes just to fly over them in a plane.
Being aware that this would require a lot of work from ASOBO, why not offer us at least one Helicopter flight model (even if it is still FSX’s) and leave it to third-party suppliers to provide us with third-party helicopter models. ?
This would at least allow us to retain our loyalty to FS2020!
Too bad ASOBO gives us so little consideration.
Didier
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I totally agree, for those who have tasted helicopter piloting, it’s impossible to be satisfied with flying by plane. Huge disappointment.
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I can’t wait, I’m getting old. Retired 8 years ago, every day is precious 
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When enough people will vote, maybe they will start earlier with the development. I don’t know why they don’t implemented the base of helicopter physics.
My suggestions are two reasons:
- The MSFS development was a big project and time was not enough for implement other physics behaviours, like chopper physics.
- They launched a product, and of course they had a development plan. They planned the flight simulator, means the world, aircrafts, user interface and so on. They would offer a new platform for flight siming. So they decided to start with a platform. After that they improve the sim and fix bugs.
Then they will launch the sim on Xbox. More customers, more money. After that, fixing bugs in connection with the Xbox.
Maybe they will after that launch other buyable content, and one time the helicopter DLC.
So they can spread the companies income.
But I voted everywhere for helicopters, because when really everyone who wants helicopters in this sim votes, then maybe the devs will favor the development of helicopters.
From my viewpoint I would be happier with helicopters before world updates, in every area of the world. This updates are great but at first we need helicopters to look at them.
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This is of course very bad news for all helicopter fans. 
But somehow I feared that it would take a while for the helicopters to come. Our problem is that we are a minority and most of the players in FS2020 either want to fly an airliner or a Cessna because they are quite easy to control . If I want, I can just fly it with the keyboard. 
With a helicopter it looks different, if the flight physics is to be realistic, it is quite difficult for the beginner to fly with the helicopter. The appropriate hardware should also be available, so beginners in particular avoid helicopters, since after the 10th crash at the latest, they don’t feel like flying any further.
Therefore, the developers will first satisfy the majority of the players
The only hope remains that there may be a beta version of a helicopter model for the community to test in 2021 and the addon with several helicopters, helipads and so on will appear in 2022. 
I myself will stay with FSX until then. With the right modifications, the FSX doesn’t look much worse than the FS2020 with the crucial difference that I can fly a helicopter.
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I love the AS 350 B3 helicopter … Thanks for the picture!
I don’t like airplanes, boring aircraft. The helicopter has to be driven constantly, it is a challenge to fly nicely with it. Heli is capable of fantastic things.
This is the real one:
if i knew they wanna add Helis in 2022 then i would wait to buy FS2022 not FS2020
I mean 2 f…ing Years ?! for Having Helicopters /!!!
totally i agree with @didlam09
Asobo needs to think like aviators not like gamers ! i can see this arcade mind from their product until now ! wrong preflight planning , wrong W/B page option , wrong Normal mapping , no template for skinners , and very bad UV wrapping !
and we have to wait … wait … wait …wait …wait wait …!
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Because every rotorhead would jump down Asobos throat for putting out an old flight model? I think the dev in the last blog put it best. He said, and I’m paraphrasing; if you give an inch, the community expects a mile. If they can’t deliver a believable flight model right now, don’t you think it’s best to wait until they can, instead of putting out something, just for the sake of putting it out?
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to respond to previous very interesting posts,
I understand very well all these arguments which are of course more laudable than the others,
I just wanted to express my frustration with a great production (with enormous means) in relation to the production at the time of FSX, which with more limited means had succeeded in satisfying all the purchasers of the product: whether it was the Players , the pilots, and aircrafts very representative of reality (planes, gliders and helicopters). The stakes were more noble because less access to the financial stakes …
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yeah its a shame , I could well be dead before they release chopper (cancer) 
I agree this statement. For the time being I return to P3D for heli flying . I don’t want to wait 2 more years
PH-MAK
That sounds very good, thanks for the message 
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A very welcomed good news indeed mate!
And I suppose you can pull some strings and make them bring their AW109 across to MSFS first, haha…
That together with accurate helicopter physics… Yes please!
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Sounds hmmm… I don’t know, but hopefully they don’t make a compromise related to the sim engine. I mean if they develop a plugin or something to make helicopters work, I can imagine that with every MSFS update this plugin doesn’t work anymore and they have to fix it again and again. I wonder also if it will bring us proper flight dynamics, not only a converted FSX engine.
Very interesting will also be, how the MSFS team will stand to this.
I don’t know how I should think about this subject.
I want to fly helicopters in MSFS but I would be more delighted if Nemeth Design would team up with Asobo and bring together a solution in 2021 instead of make a tweaked compromise solution.
In a bad case the community would be disappointed to pay for a compromise, and after a half year later Asobo comes with a new proper engine and SDK for helicopters. In this case it would be better for Nemeth to work together with Asobo and bring their effort only one time for a non compromise solution.
Otherwise we will in the future have two types of helicopters, the Nemeth type with the Nemeth flight engine and the Asobo ones.
On the other hand Nemeth should be professionals, and know what they do…
I don’t know but we will see.
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Thank you @FourHaddock2427 for this encouraging news. Nemeth’s helicopters are of very high quality, and we hope that Milviz will also give some news.
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Yes Milviz and Nemeth are the 2 best helicopters suppliers I have known in my 15 years of FS !
super good news, finally a ray of hope is on the horizon …
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Not unreasonable don’t you think?
It’s a logical step and any company would do it.