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Decided to give the early access of Lines Studio's Helicopter Simulator a whirl since it is only 20 quid on Steam. Bit of a faff to get the controls set up, but once you do, it's really pretty cool since the controls actually do replicate the controls of the real thing reasonably well, this means you can actually control the thing properly. I even managed to land it on a luxury yacht on my first attempt:

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Alan Bradbury

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was planning on it but its seems to be limited ? can you confirm , nice shots btw. How about the Wx ?

 

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It's pretty basic at this point, being early access. If you ever had Take On Helicopters or Train Sim World where you could walk around and do inspections, so into buildings etc in a first person mode, and where you literally walk out to the chopper, open the door, and get in the thing, then you'll know what to expect with this. There is a career mode in there, with missions which are centred around an office with email messages, a bit like Euro Truck sim. The down side is that it's all with the Robinson R22, which is not exactly the worlds most flexible or exciting helicopter, with it basically being a training chopper. Terrain is serviceably okay, but not super-duper detailed, although this might change. 

Nevertheless, it is a fantastic simulation of a chopper in terms of handling. It's not absolutely one hundred percent realistic, but it's far better than any other chopper sim I've seen by a very long way in terms of how it flies, and so you do need to map all the controls properly to various axis on your controllers to be able to fly it well, i.e. collective, throttle, cyclic, tail rotor pedals, plus governor and rotor brake etc. If they stuck a Huey in it or a Jet Ranger, it'd be amazing.

For 20 quid, if you like choppers, I'd say it was worth having purely for being a sim where you can actually control your helicopter pretty much like the real thing and not struggle if you know what you are doing with whirlibirds. I hope it does well and expands, because it does have real potential.

Alan Bradbury

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Thanks Chock, yep in XP I am only chopping around. 

Huey / 412 would be nice.

Thnaks.

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Great shots,and Thx for info.Curious if you've ever tried Rotorcraft in DCS?

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Yup, I've got the Huey in DCS, this is a better chopper simulator than DCS, as you'd expect given its specialisation.

Alan Bradbury

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