• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • IMPORTANT INFORMATION - ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ

    Due to an increase in the number of new members who are trying to systematically download our entire Resource Library (one new member yesterday tried to download 3,000+ files AT ONCE!) we are being forced to implement some changes regarding who can download what, how many files at a time and at what speed. As the forums and Resource Library share the same bandwidth when the Library gets overloaded with demand like that the forums fall over, as we have all seen recently. It's sad that greed has forced our hand in this way but we must do something for the benefit of all our legitimate members (many of whom paid money for the upkeep of the site) and to prevent the files stored here being used for nefarious purposes. Many of our uploads have specific conditions tied to them that forbid uploading to any other site or deny uploading to any site that has a 'paywall' (i.e. a pay to download policy). Due to the number of mass download attempts recently we can only assume that somebody, somewhere, is attempting to stock up a new file library with our files and we owe it to our up-loaders to protect their files and intellectual property especially as many (like my own LDR Development projects) are made available at SOH only and are specified as such in the 'read me' files.

    The forums and Resource Library will be taken offline as of 13:00 EDT with the forums coming back online shortly after without the resources library while we work on setting up permissions on the new Library module.

    We hope our members understand why we need to do this and will bear with us while we implement the changes.

    Thanks in anticipation, SOH ADMINISTRATION

    Downloads are now active. You may proceed with downloading as desired

    The download limits are a work in progress. Some settings are likely to need tweaking in the coming days.

Helio Courier for FS2024

DennyA

SOH-CM-2023
A classic STOL airplane's been released on SimMarket, the Helio Courier. Haven't heard of the dev, but their previous release, the Tayrona LSA, got good reviews on SimMarket and apparently saw a number of upgrades to address user feedback. So probably pretty safe if you need another plane in your STOL hangar.


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My flight card is booked for a while, but will be curious to hear impressions if any of y'all pick it up.

Oooh, their Facebook post calls this initial release "early access," so keep that in mind. SimMarket didn't point that out...

 
Definitely has an early access feel to it. Model looks decent but you only get one livery. Tundra tyres only, no other config. There is one with a cargo pod shown in one of the screenshots but I haven't found out how to load that. Maybe in a tablet or maybe in the weight/balance page. I've only flown it for about 10 mins. Textures inside are very.......flat? They don't interact with lighting that well which makes them look very 2D and a bit portover-ish. A bit like the Black Box Twin Pin. The engine is massively overpowered (400+ HP showing up in the dev mode debugging window) so the climb is ridiculous, but it does handle fairly convincingly at low speed and the slat animations seem alright, better than some others I've seen. Also, the prop hunts massively (over 200RPM) at cruise which is annoying to say the least. That's my first 10 mins, I'll have a play with the config files and see if I can make it behave better. Sounds are decent.
 
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