Can anyone please recommend a good helicopter? Requirements are: Accurate (challenging) flight model Great virtual cockpit. Great sounds Preferences: Somethnig small light and agile with plenty of glass, ie Gazelle, Hughes 500, Alouette, turbine Not Bothered: 2d cockpit external model paintkits freeware/payware

One Word............Dodo http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=dodosim206

Hey Glen that sounds like just the ticket. Not my favorite chopper but they look to have ticked all the other boxes! Any other suggestions before I hit the Buy it Now button? CheersRichard

One more word.............. The Dodo. Beats anything else by a mile. Nothing else comes close, Richard. Buy it first, before any others take your eye. If, like me - you spend another $70 or $80 on two other choppers - then you buy the Dodo - the others will end up sitting in the hangar. Money wasted.

Try hovercontrol they have excellent models. www.hovercontrol.com

Great that sounds unanimous. Downloading the dodo!

try hovercontrol too they have free choppers.

try hovercontrol too they have free choppers.

"Requirements are:Accurate (challenging) flight modelGreat virtual cockpit.Great sounds" You don't get any of that with freebees...

"Requirements are:Accurate (challenging) flight modelGreat virtual cockpit.Great sounds" You don't get any of that with freebees...

Ok, I would not know about the dynamics of hovercontrol birds, but when I was looking for heli's some years back hovercontrol had a good review.

Great that sounds unanimous. Downloading the dodo!

Richard I don't think you will be disappointed. I have bought MANY over the years that are collecting virtual dust. Happy Dodoing, Glen PS. Flight 1 has a 30 day money back policy so it's risk free.

Hi Guys,I tried hovercontrol in FS9, I think it was a Huey, Anyway I found it a bit easy and big and sluggish, generous though to be giving out free stuff so Im not complaining,,but if Im going to spend time flying a chopper nowadays I want it to be as close to the real deal as possible. Also something nice and agile. I decided this last night, I flew the default chopper from Benbecula up to the top of a mountain and then down onto an island, I have that good new scenery for up there. Anyway it was a lot of fun but let down by the awful default 206. Thanks again for the good advice, I am downloading now. Lets hope I can fly it after all my macho chopper talk!

I prefer the Bell 412 by Cerasim. True the FDE isn't as extreme as the dodosim B206 but with the HTR free addon from hovercontrol it get's more realistic, if you have the controls for it. http://cerasimaircraft.com/bell_412_fsx.htmlhttp://www.hovercontrol.com/cgi-bin/ifolio/imageFolio.cgi?direct=HTR_-_Helicopter_Total_Realism

On the one hand there is the Dodo. On the other hand; well that's the problem, no one else makes anything even close to what Dodosim has created! Regards, Mike Mann

1) Dodosim Bell 2062) Aerosoft Huey3) Hovercontrol 412 (freeware) In that order.