Finally got around to trying out a Helicopter, the H135 by Hype Performance Group. I believe it was the first Helicopter for MSFS.
Not sure about the flight model: I didn’t instantly spin it out of control and crashed … this has been my experience with helicopters.
So I took a little flight from EBOS, over the beach, landed in a - large enough - field. And returned home to EBOS. I then spent another half an hour trying to taxi to my parking spot. I honestly thought taxiing with helicopters was easy but it was actually extremely difficult.
Some observations, my control’s reactions are quite abrupt / twitchy, I move and the whole helicopter moves without any delays (inertia). If anyone knows why, please let me know!
That made it really easy for me to overcorrect stuff. My rudder works by twisting my stick, so I cannot let go of it AT ALL. I must hold my stick firmly and twist and turn it in just the right way the whole time … …
But it’s an impressive thing knowing there’s not actually support for helicopters (yet). I did get a good feeling of how helicopters controls works I think: yaw, pitch and roll. How the energy is managed etc …
All in all, tense stuff but I can see how helicopters are totally great in the MSFS world. It’s crazy they weren’t in the sim out of the box.
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OK, flying a helicopter … how hard can it be?
Where’s the ON button?
After flipping some switches, looks like the spinning bits started moving …
This guy, who-ever he is, seems totally confident this will end well … who’s going to tell him?
It works! Throttle forward, cars get smaller!
Laters!
Trying the hover, which is the only thing a helicopter is good for, let’s be honest
Made it to a field! Still alive. Time to go home.
I’ll just “taxi” here (I accidentally parked it on the runway, twice)
Attempt 1:
Attempt 55:
Somehow still alive, I think my helicopter’s “feet” are pretty much trashed from scraping over the tarmac. But the guy next to me is still very relaxed, a little TOO relaxed … “pan pan medical” … (also I myself am invisible, it’s weird but you get used to it)
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