Found this little beauty at www.hovercontrol.com what a fine flying machine it is............

The Schweizer 300 has a 3 bladed rotor head, not a 2 bladed system.http://www.helispot.com/images/00596.jpgOther than that it is a great looking aircraft...

If you do a shutdown, you'll find it DOES have 3 blades.Calhover long and prosper

Hmmm, I wonder why it only shows 2 when the RPMs, are up to speed? Is that just a FS2002 thing? Anyway, thanks for pointing that out...

Because he's used the rotating blade object and texturing of the default Bell 206 or a very close replica -- just as does the PAYWARE Bell 407.Achieving a good looking rotating rotor effect is quite difficult. I spent a lot of time experimenting with mine and I'm sure others did too. It's difficult to get away from shutter synchronization which makes the blades appear to stand still.And after all that -- what does it matter? Realistically, you fly from inside the cockpit -- in which case you can't see the blades anyway. For those who fly from outside -- they aren't concerned with realism so who cares what the blades look like? (This is getting complicated)......Calhover long and prosper

Does it have a virtual cockpit? If so, how did you like it?Thanks,Larry :-)http://aerosite.net/logos/aaeagle.gif[/img]Captain Larry BrownAmerican Eagle Virtual AirlinesAAL 160www.flyava.org

Good Point.. LOL! :-lol

You can see the blades from the cockpit in a real helicopter..?

I know I've always been able to see the blades from the cockpit, although I don't think that as the pilot, you really tend to be looking for them.

It only looks like 2 blades during a static screenshot. This is due to the way the default jet ranger blade texture works in conjuction with the animation used. During normal flight, internal or external, or if the helicopter is shutdown it has a normal 3 blade configuration.

That depends on which aircraft you are in, but yes you CAN see blades in a Real Aircraft. For example, in an UH1H you "Track" the rotor blades by putting reflective tape on the ends of the blades and using a stobe light to see when they are lined up in a cross....

We used to use a Main Rotor Track Flag to track the M/R blades on the AH-1 and UH-1. For the T/R we used a broom stick, a piece of hose and a china marker. Those were the days. Now we have a high tech computer that tells us which blade is "flying". The old system was easier and more dangerous, and sometimes the computer begins to "chase itself" and gives you bogus adjustments for the Pitch Change Rods. I do remember the RADS kit with the strobes and tape. Didn't like it much. I can't imagine using the strobes on the 4 bladed system I wrench on now.Cheers,Crash

I like it too. Hope there's something else in the works. :)alex

I worked on engines in the US Army, but I remeber the watching the Power Train guys do all of those little adjustments. Just glad it wasn't me! LOL! Yeah, the RADS, makes a little cross at the end of the blades with the stobe, what memories!