I can't start the thing for some reason but if I begin with the motor is running it flies really well. I use VR and I really enjoy flying it. The co-pilot AutoStart doesn't work at all but if you hit Ctrl+e that works. I use the same exact control bindings on my x56 that I use for the Cessna 152.

Maybe it's because I'm just basically a "ctrl-e" kinda guy, but if I just set up a flight to start on the runway this always works for me and flies fine. I use it a lot to just sort of 'park' over an airport and watch the AIG traffic doing its thing. It's not the most manoeuverable thing and even I could probably outrun it, but as an observation platform I quite like it. And I have used it for a couple of exploratory countryside flights, maybe 20 or 30 miles, and as long as you don't expect any major agility it's ok. It's a stable platform, and doesn't seem to require the constant control input that the various copters need to just hang around in the sky. Definitely the right tool for some jobs - I like it.

If you have a "Helicopter" control profile, use that. It is in essence a helicopter. I find it quite interesting. 

It's a useless thing.  The performance specs of the actual vehicle are terrible.  I'm not sure why it was even included.  

I've tried it twice and was hugely disappointed every time. 

All the recent free and cheap aircraft add-ons from Asobo are hugely disappointing; none of them have lifelike flight characteristics. Sure, we cannot expect high-fidelity dynamics, but we can expect something better than point and slide along the rails (after all that about thousands of aerodynamic data points etc). 🤷‍♂️

22 hours ago, marsman2020 said:

The performance specs of the actual vehicle are terrible.  I'm not sure why it was even included.  

A google search of the phrase "product placement" might be illuminating.

 

As for performance, the thing is designed to take you over rush hour traffic from one side of a city to the other. I can see the concept making sense somewhere like LA or NYC where you might sit in traffic for 2 hours trying to get to work.

 

On the other hand, I can also see the concept being a nightmare if widely adopted, because it only carries 1 passenger. Even if only C-suite executives used it, you'd still have hundreds in the air at any given time, in very close proximity to each other.

 

 

8 hours ago, eslader said:

A google search of the phrase "product placement" might be illuminating.

 

As for performance, the thing is designed to take you over rush hour traffic from one side of a city to the other. I can see the concept making sense somewhere like LA or NYC where you might sit in traffic for 2 hours trying to get to work.

 

On the other hand, I can also see the concept being a nightmare if widely adopted, because it only carries 1 passenger. Even if only C-suite executives used it, you'd still have hundreds in the air at any given time, in very close proximity to each other.

 

 

The thing is, the company supposedly provided a custom coded flight model for the MSFS version....  If I were an air taxi company looking at what aircraft to buy, the way this performs in MSFS would make me less likely to buy it.....

4 hours ago, marsman2020 said:

The thing is, the company supposedly provided a custom coded flight model for the MSFS version....  If I were an air taxi company looking at what aircraft to buy, the way this performs in MSFS would make me less likely to buy it.....

Yeah, but on the other hand if you were an air taxi company using a $60 game to evaluate major purchasing options, your company probably wouldn't be long for this world anyway. 😉

The MSFS angle is to drive up interest in passengers, not owners.

 

Edited December 18, 20214 yr by eslader

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