How Can I Create an Aerofly FS 4 Aircraft Model?

I am planning at some point develop a custom helicopter for Aerofly FS4, is there some documentation available for the helicopter / rotorcraft specific flight model development?

Quote from PjotR22

There are no SDK's out yet for the new Aerofly FS4....
Big plans! It seems to be a hard and time consuming job.
Still hope someone will give us the tiny Mosquito helicopter for FS4, but of course you should work on a model of your own liking.

Yes it will probably be a lot of work, but I was thinking working on it more as a side project from time to time:) I am definitely open for suggestions what would be nice models to have😀

Quote from PjotR22

Well...I vote Mosquito!

Very nice, could be a good candidate👍

I have several models in mind, one I have been looking into is the AS332 Superpuma L2 (H225) 😀

Anyway what ever aircraft I end up working on, it will be made available as freeware.

Quote from larrylynx

If you ever get to work with the heli TMD file, I would stick to a helicopter with 2 or 4 blades as its much easier. IPACS are very protective of the heli coding so you will need their permission first and you will need to demonstrate a strong, no, very strong dedication to the development. My guess they would like to see the full model first.

Developing a fixed wing aircraft. which I recommend you do first, is a rewarding but time consuming task, a heli is maybe 1.5 times the fixed wing development. Sitting in a virtual version of the model you built and programmed is like the big Christmas present you always wanted.

Steve

Thanks for the info, very much appreciated. I am sure the development would require a significant of work and learning, I do like challenges myself. I find the work you did on Aerofly FS2 outstanding as well. I found the Aircraft SDK for Aerofly FS4, and details on how to get the actual model into Aerofly (I have been working in Blender).

So if I understood the documentation for rotorcraft development is not public, only for fixed wing? What is the reason for this Jet-Pack (IPACS) ?

Quote from larrylynx

The helicopter TMD coding is very complex and highly detailed, IPACS are extremely protective of how the helicopter physics work. Most of which I didn't understand. Similar to the complexity of their gas turbine engine coding.

I was worn to secrecy under pain of having certain bits of my anatomy removed and making a necklace from them

I see, seems little counterintuitive when a public aircraft SDK is available, did not note that it said fixed wing only. Would admin want to comment on this. Will not spend time on this if it is not possible to do at all.

Been looking at the Aircraft SDK for Aerofly FS4, it should be possible to bring the helicopter model into the simulator. Another issue is the flight model, there are some documentation about developing an aircraft and needed parameters, but they are indeed very fixed wing oriented.

Btw, did some tests with the new UH-60 and have to say that it is very impressive. Flight dynamics seems very good, and the model is top notch. Also the autopilot works extremely well. Great work IPACS!

Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

Airplanes are already complex, helicopters are a totally different story. I would recommend starting with a simple aircraft.

Yes that would probably make sense, to get familar with the development process and tools as a first step.