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What is your favorite helicopter?

DaveB said:
It's a difficult one to answer. Much depends on what you want out of a flight model and how your rig is setup. Is it believable.. I don't know. I like the flight model. It goes exactly where you want it to go and it sounds the part while you're doing it. There's a quick start option but you can run it up 'by the book' should you wish. It really has a lot going for it. One thing though.. on my rig, I often get a 'BEX' error on shutting the sim down after I've flown it. Trying to track down exactly what this is like finding the answer to the universe! I've not seen anyone else report this so I guess it's something unique to my rig.

I have my realism sliders backed off and it flies 'how I like' it to fly. Crank em up and I'm sure it would get livelier. It flies how I would expect one to fly but that doesn't mean a great deal;)
ATB
DaveB:)
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Thanks Dave! How is it on frames in comparison to the 60?

Last question I promise :eek: lol
 
Thanks Dave! How is it on frames in comparison to the 60?
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I don't think there's a great deal of difference mate.. both it and the 60 run fine on my i5. One that does give a noticeable hit is the MV407. Looking at it.. it seems to be no more than a 206 with 2 extra blades.. certainly nothing visible to pull at FR's so it must be the whole unit being more resource hungry. Compare it to the MV/ND Wokka.. you'd think the Wokka, with all it's lumps, bumps and twin rotors would be heavier on frames not better but the Wokka is better.
Anywho.. I think it's safe to assume a slightly higher resource overhead with MV products than with comparable dev's products.. good or bad. In the words of Bruce Hornsby.. That's just the way it is;)
ATB
DaveB:)
 
As kdfw mentioned and has show in his vids, the Cera H-60 is a winner. Out of the box the FDE is off, with HTR most of the issues are corrected given the limitations in FSX. I have many of the payware models out, but my "go-to" model for a quick flight to check AI or scenery is the freeware ERS B206 make over.
 
My top three in FSX:

Nemeth Mi-24V
Cera Bell 212
Virtavia/Alphasim AS365 Dauphin

The Nemeth model is realistic from a systems perspective, and it looks great - which makes it very enjoyable for me. There are a few bugs that will never be fixed, but I can live with them. As with most addon helicotpers though, the flight dynamics could be better.

The Cera 212 is also great from a systems and visual perspective, and gets about equal flying time from me when compared with the Hind.

I have a personal connection to the AS365 so despite some dated visuals, it's a solid model and I use it extensively as well. I believe that Cera Simulations is back in action and is beginning to progress on their Dauphin, but I believe they are making a "long-nose" model. Here's hoping for a short-nose.

I would also highly recommend Helicopter Total Realism (HTR) available on Hovercontrol to improve the flying properties (flight dynamics) of many helicopters!


Honorable mention to the Area51 Simulations OH-58 Kiowa Warrior, specifically with the flight dynamics update on Hovercontrol. Very enjoyable to fly, and with more convincing dynamics too.


Having been behind the controls of a few different types in the real world, FSX helicopters are not nearly sensitive enough regarding control inputs to be realistic, nor do many have features like yaw from rotor momentum built in.
 
S-97 Raider

Sikorsky S-97 'Raider' prototype (based on their X-2 Demonstrator). Model (for FS9) by David Allen. The FDEs are NEW and made from scratch by me, Chuck B (Napamule).

Well this is really for FS9 but I tried it in FSX Accel. Didn't go back to flying it in FS9 although it flys just as good in FS9, if not better, than in FSX (if that's possible). Been at it for a week or so. This is the first video over 5 min I ever made (been at YouTube since 2006). Here is a 9:23 video of it in FSX Acceleration: http://youtu.be/ACM3NkYQ8_w .

Of course this helio is not 'real' and this only shows what can be done with FDEs and does not mean that the S-97 can do these 'tricks'. So it's just for fun.
Napamule
 
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As I only have the default helicopters installed I assume this must be my favourite helicopter in FSX....



In FS2004 I used to the the Westland Wessex helicopters by the Simshed quite often,
but the one below was my absolute favourite!



Cheers,
Huub
 
The Simshed, Brian Franklin Wessex works pretty well out of the box in FSX, all animations seem to work and most of the gauges show without warnings, the rotor disk is a little dark perhaps but its better than some other port-over helos ive try'd,

cheers ian
 
It's one I always keep installed too Ian:encouragement: Oh for an FSX native model!! Brian actually let a friend (who will remain nameless for fear of a full inbox) have the source code for it with a view to doing just that. I don't know what program Brian used to compile it but I think it involved a lot of masking tape and super-glue!! Needless to say.. the project didn't get very far.:( Still.. the old FS9 model will do for now;)

ATB
DaveB:)
 
SeanTK said:
My top three in FSX:

Nemeth Mi-24V


The Nemeth model is realistic from a systems perspective, and it looks great - which makes it very enjoyable for me. There are a few bugs that will never be fixed, but I can live with them. As with most addon helicotpers though, the flight dynamics could be better.
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Apparently ND quit and shut shop earlier this yr, which explains why they havent been posting or providing support, and no longer providing some download links from their store

On another note MV bought back their models from ND and from Colin he's honouring MV models that were bought from the ND store with proof of purchase
 
That's amazing customer service!! They release the Bk117 just before Christmas and bug reports start coming in. An explanation for the lack of support was 'they have a life and are on Christmas holiday'!!! The atmosphere over there was certainly getting heated with some customers demanding their money back. One emailed Tamas who replied saying 'what problems'?

There's nothing there to say they've folded Matt and the shop front is still active though as far as support is concerned.. the place has been closed pretty much since Christmas.
ATB
DaveB:)
 
DaveB said:
That's amazing customer service!! They release the Bk117 just before Christmas and bug reports start coming in. An explanation for the lack of support was 'they have a life and are on Christmas holiday'!!! The atmosphere over there was certainly getting heated with some customers demanding their money back. One emailed Tamas who replied saying 'what problems'?

There's nothing there to say they've folded Matt and the shop front is still active though as far as support is concerned.. the place has been closed pretty much since Christmas.
ATB
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Hey at the emd of the day i see it as its our fault, we all know how buggy the products are yet we still buy them

I was only informed today from a good source they quit, very piss poor that its been 8 months and no mention of this from them, just like thier forums if you say something negtive they hide the post and the probelem goes away they must be thinking if they dont say anything all the customers who require support will go away

Anyway on a brighter note, no more wasted money on a helicopters that backflip and crash and then get told thats how they fly in real life by helicopter trainee pilots
 
Yes mate.. you're right on all counts. I wasn't going to buy another model after the EC350 but against my better judgement, I did so I've only myself to blame:banghead:

ATB
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