FlightNight Sept. 16th - Chopper cruise of National Parks and AONB's in Scotland and North England!
We'll meet at 8 pm London Time at ICAO: EGPH - Edinburgh Airport in Scotland. Please bring the Chopper of you choice from the FGUK Hangars that can attain/maintain 130 KIAS for an hours duration to altitudes of 5K'.
We will depart and observe the Forth Bridges which are well represented in FGFS before turning South and overflying EG60, passing thru Solway Coast AONB and Lake District National Park in England before landing at ICAO: EGNL - Barrow/Walney Island Airport - as our midpoint refresh and refuel. Target speed for the first half will be 130 KIAS.
After refresh, we will cool our speed a bit to 120 KIAS and depart East to ICAO: EGNV - Teesside International Airport - after passing between Yorkshire Dales National Park and North Pennines AONB.
Comms on TeamSpeak as always.
Lot's of cool stuff to see so I hope to see as many as possible!
VooDoo
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Gazelle for me.
Bell 430 or BK 117 for me.
VooDoo
Hopefully I can make it, if I can it'll be the Bell 412 for me.
Cyber
Good run out for my new venture. Air Donald Air tours. That is if I can make it. Were fully booked at the weekend
I need that livery Stuart!
VooDoo
the other 2 ships in my fleet
Sweet. When will the new livs be available? Bell 430, not sure about the second chopper, and the EC135. Right?
VooDoo
Second chopper is an unreleased ( and not ready to be released ) AW109 Grand New. 3rd is the 135.
Yum.
VooDoo
Heres the livery files for my corporate bell 430
and the corporate livery for the ec135
Thank you! Loaded up and tested.
VooDoo
Thanks a lot Stu. The AW109 looks soooo good. I want it !!!
If Stuart dun't make it I'm gonna fly the Aird Donald Air Tours liveries just for the movie. Just Sayin'....
VooDoo
Might be worth checking out Teesside International Airport before the night. There are just over 1,000 objects in the vicinity of EGNV - not including OSM buildings, pylons or trees. This is enough to virtually stop the sim on my machine so I have chopped most of them out of . . .
TerraSync/Objects/w010n50/w002n54/2925594.stg
TerraSync/Objects/w010n50/w002n54/2925602.stg
Obviously if "Download scenery automatically" is enabled then Terrasync with just load them back in.
I flew around it extensively last night with frame rates in the mid 40's+ but I'm running a newer optimized Nightly Build. Folks, check it out and we can change airports if needed.
VooDoo
My wife is away so I can come on this one - my chopper skills are very rusty though, any recommendations?
My recommendation is that you have to be very light on the controls and learn the input lag of the chopper that you choose. And always remember that rudder is very important in the sense that if you increase collective you have to counter it with rudder in the opposite direction that the chopper's main rotor is spinning.
Cyber
Yeah I fly the UH-1 in DCS, just looking for recommendations for an easier chopper in FlightGear, maybe the 412?
The 412, 430, ec135 or maybe even the AS352 would be my recommendation.
Is there a git repo for the AW109? Like to help out or anything?
Those liveries look great though!
CJ
OrbitalMartian
Callsigns: G-ORBI
The cougar is not a beginners chopper.
500E or 500D are fairly simple and easy to get to grips with, then probably the gazelle .
EC135 is ok but you need to do a manual start with it its not got a properly working autostart.
Not at the moment theres not.
I second Stuart's recommendations - personally the Hughes 500E is about as easy as it gets.
VooDoo
Yes, I completely agree, when I first flew the Cougar there was absolutely nothing graceful about my maneuvers lol. As far as the Hughes is concerned it really is a beginner friendly chopper, but still I practiced and learnt on the big choppers from the Huey on cause I like bulky choppers and the Hughes was just too small, light and easy for me lol.
Cyber
Side note. The cougar has a Pilot verified FDM in it. It flies as it should do.
Wow, nice.