1 hour ago, simtom said:

Like VR, they want to do it perfectly (physics of helicopters work differently than airplanes).

You'll never see "perfect" helicopter aerodynamics/physics in a home flight sim - there's just too much going on. I'd settle for "better" than what's currently available.

4 minutes ago, vortex681 said:

You'll never see "perfect" helicopter aerodynamics/physics in a home flight sim - there's just too much going on. I'd settle for "better" than what's currently available.

Plus, it would require affordable helicopter controls in the Saitek/Honeycomb price range. I am sure, these would make helicopters take off, even with a sub-perfect aerodynamics.

Kind regards, Michael

Some bold predictions:

Fs-5.1 will make a comeback within the next 12 months, but will then be eclipsed by the new MSFS

MSFS will not have seasonal variation, or helicopters

Some will be satisfied by MSFS, others won't

No matter what, it will not be the end of the world.

The world will end eventually, but not because of this.

I think they’ll get the gfx user settings wrong/confusing a la rdr2 leading everyone to say it has massive performance issues, when really it just extends into future, unreleased hardware. 

i also think it will be a massive hit, perhaps surprising to some, and will lead to a renaissance of amateur modding to a very high standard.  

my last hot take is that it doesn’t release until mid 2021

 

3 hours ago, vortex681 said:

You'll never see "perfect" helicopter aerodynamics/physics in a home flight sim - there's just too much going on. I'd settle for "better" than what's currently available.

Absolutely. But there is quite a way to go from FSX/P3D helicopters to XP/DCS ones. So i do hope they will bring us a first proper helicopter with dynamics more similar to the XP/DCS kind and from there third parties can take over.

13 minutes ago, france89 said:

Absolutely. But there is quite a way to go from FSX/P3D helicopters to XP/DCS ones. So i do hope they will bring us a first proper helicopter with dynamics more similar to the XP/DCS kind and from there third parties can take over.

I'm pretty sure that's the reason they are not including helicopters right now. They focused on getting the flight model for airplanes right and in the future do the same for helicopters. Knowing they have around 150 people working on the sim, I don't think it will take a lot of time to accomplish that.

Dovetail tried that same approach on Flight Sim World, but unfortunately they ran out of money. They default aircrafts were an good improvement compared to FSX ones and their helicopters would probably get the same treatment. Now with Microsoft, I don't think we will see the same time/money constraints we saw with Dovetail.