Came out today in a bit of a surprise.. but after 2 months I think it's about time! Can get it here: www.alabeo.com (22.95$)

 

Bought it and did a quick test, it's not bad at all ! Sounds are great, awesome visuals with really nice liveries and fde feels nice too... waiting on the more experienced users to judge it actually.

 

Just a quick shot from Aerosoft's Catalina demo... fps is super smooth with maxed sliders (waters on high-2x):

 

Now I just need a mid-night black paint for it and I'm gold!

Looks pretty nice!   I don't do choppers is FS (just can't fly 'em for love nor money!), but this looks great for the egg beater fans :cool:

can you put it in a cold & dark situation?  can you start it from engine/blades off? 

 

I'm about to pull the trigger on this.. I've been wanting a nice heli.. so.. this might be it.

I just did a quick mp session with a buddy who bought it as well. VERY COOL ! 

 

There's no built-in cold & dark, but I use a program that gives me this mode for any aircraft I want. It's called 'Sim Launcher'. An amazing freeware by Maarten Boelens, which replaces the entire fsx store front. You can set a global C&D mode and then customize each aircraft with the exact gauges you want ON/OFF. I just set it to OFF globally and this way I start each aircraft absolutely cold & dark. There's no need to save your flight and stuff like that. It really is about time people heard and started to use this great app. Maarten is a great programmer, everything works flawlessly on it and you can use it with both fsx & p3d!

 

The R66 is really nice, so far the comments on facebook are positive as well!

 

You can get SL here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/reiyseibeq4bsz9/SimLauncher_92.rar

 

If you guys want to quick check this chopper, get the new catalina demo and you're gtg!

 

Adding another shot:

 

have you tried to share cockpit with it?

Nope haven't tried that I'm afraid. We did a 10 minutes session just for testing. Tomorrow though, we'll set a vfr plan and probably try shared cockpit as well. Will report back once I have the answer to that.

There's no built-in cold & dark, but I use a program that gives me this mode for any aircraft I want. It's called 'Sim Launcher'. An amazing freeware by Maarten Boelens,

 

 

+1 to Sim Launcher.. One of the best pieces of 100% freeware in a long time.. Pure quality coding and interface. I use it in Prepar3D..

See... a lot of people here on Avsim don't even know about it. I should open a dedicated thread.

Btw, Maarten is working on a completely brand new version with some cool suggestions I offered while using the current version.

For starters: removal of the ezca world cam entry from cameras.ini! the end of scenery corruption and annoyance/extra work each time you install a new aircraft. And of course more good stuff.. so I really can't wait.

I’m also not into helicopters, but I will give this one a try.

I fully support Alabeo. After all, they made the beautiful Waco, and the AgTruck!

@adi518 - Thanks for the heads-up on Sim Launcher.  I had not heard of this but it sounds fantastic, so off to give it a whirl.   Great share.

Looks very nice,Thanks for the info.

Quick question, can you do a full start-up / shut-down on it?  As in, go from completely cold n' dark to flying to cold n' dark again?

Looks like Alabeo might put up a patch as the starter key won't work for some reason. Not sure. Regarding C&D, see my comments above.

 

Someone who flew a real robinson slightly adjusted the cruise speeds, see here: http://www.hovercontrol.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi?s=a01e898b0a914b2219002a6fcf6f7863;act=ST;f=1;t=22709 (post by Leorstef). I want to generalize and say that Alabeo aircraft are usually in the more arcade side of things... it doesn't make them any less fun imo.

The key is just for the ignition. You can find the starter button on the fuel cutoff lever.

 

 

Regarding C&D, see my comments above.

 

Which is why I asked.  From your original comment, I couldn't glean enough info.  When you say "There's no built-in cold & dark", does that mean that once you put the helo into cold & dark by other means (saved default c&d flight, or other), does it provide the ability to do a complete start up from that state?  And further, upon shutting down the helo, I take it it's not possible to completely shut it down?

 

When you use the term "built-in cold & dark", to me that means a menu option to get it quickly to a pure cold n' dark state.  Which I never really care about, since 95% of my GA style flying (which this helo would fall under for me) is 'open saved flight, do start-up from c&d, go flying, do shut down to c&d, save flight'.