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Quote from Ozav8r

And I'll park an Airbus right behind you;-) The need for a chopper in Aerofly FS2 - any chopper, is now pressing and urgent! The ONLY reason I still occasionally return to to X-plane and P3D is for rotary wing flying. The stuff that is ready for exploration in Aerofly is stunning. C'mon developers - port across a 406 from X-plane, or a Robbie from P3D. Anything will do - and we'll pay top dollars for it as well!!

Is it even possible to port one simply from other sims instead of building from the ground up?

Quote from frui

Is it even possible to port one simply from other sims instead of building from the ground up?

No idea, as I'm not even remotely qualified to answer Just hoping there's some Skunkworks rotary wing AFS2 projects going on

Quote from John Hargreaves

It's a complete fantasy and will never happen, but how cool would it be to take a plane from one sim and fly it in another? I'd love to take my DCS Huey or my Dreamfoil Bell 407 round the FS2/OrbX areas. We can dream for free.

Get out of my dreams dude! LOL.

Seriously, I was thinking the exact same thing before reading your post. I'm currently trying to enjoy my Dreamfoil 407 in VR (XP beta), but it sucks to have turn down the graphics details (texture, objects, etc) just to get decent, smooth performance! Heck I'm running an i7-7700k at 5ghz with an EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW3, for crying out loud!!!

Ozav8r wrote:

And I'll park an Airbus right behind you;-) The need for a chopper in Aerofly FS2 - any chopper, is now pressing and urgent! The ONLY reason I still occasionally return to to X-plane and P3D is for rotary wing flying. The stuff that is ready for exploration in Aerofly is stunning. C'mon developers - port across a 406 from X-plane, or a Robbie from P3D. Anything will do - and we'll pay top dollars for it as well!!

Same here, Helos and AI traffic (WT3) in XP11.

Quote from J van E

Did my first two flights around KEGE this evening and it's a great addon! And concerning the size... My first flight (in the C172) took 30 minutes and I didn't pass a single part of the scenery twice. (Well, I didn't fly in a straight line, of course.) And I haven't seen everything yet! So yes, it's pretty big LOL

BTW I like that ranch airstrip! That'll be my home in this region! You have a great view from it out over the valley (really wide and open in VR! Talking about immersion!). It's nice having three landing options in one addon!

I haven't flown in 2D yet because the feeling of being there is just too nice. Great piece of work!

Thanks for the pirep. It will be a few days before I have the time to get it and marvel over all the beauty in VR. But what I think I'll do first, is make one last flight between KEGE and KASE in the default scenery.

Quote from J van E

No. At least not simply. So far I know of one developer who tried to port his planes to AFS2 but he gave up on it, at least for now. It was too complicated and too different. I think that in the end only the 3D model can be used: everything else works different in AFS2. A developer doesn't have to build it from the ground up but it comes close...

Sad to hear about this. Looks like a helicopter is still quite a long way ahead.

Quote from frui

Sad to hear about this. Looks like a helicopter is still quite a long way ahead.

IPACS have helicopters in the RC sim they do, so there is some base for helicopter physics there already. I'm sure they'll get round to it in due course.

Quote from Redtail

Thanks for the pirep. It will be a few days before I have the time to get it and marvel over all the beauty in VR. But what I think I'll do first, is make one last flight between KEGE and KASE in the default scenery.

Absolutely this: it really helps to appreciate the work when you do a default flight first, then you install the new stuff and it makes it all the better.

I'm sure I recall hints about inbound choppers (theme to MASH runs through my head) sometime early December. I think IPACS know the demand and are cracking on with them.

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I'm sure I recall hints about inbound choppers (theme to MASH runs through my head) sometime early December. I think IPACS know the demand and are cracking on with them.

That was the first time I can remember them hinting that a helo was inbound, so they must be working on one.

Actually, one of the founders stated they had a helicopter more than a year ago. The exact words escape me, but it was something about not being pleased with the physics and needing further testing. He may have said it was a Robinson, but I could have just thought that from the exchange.

I personally would not be surprised if the first one is a 407. But, I would gladly take any rotary wing, to get those airlines off the runway at Eagle County.

Regards,

Ray