What is your favorite X Plane 11/12 Helicopter? This can be one that you enjoyed from XP11 and is coming soon to XP12.

 

I am more interested in study level helicopters with the most detail. Payware is fine. So far for freeware I have found OH-58D Kiowa Warrior the best freeware for for XP12. Change my mind.

vskylabs r44 and r66.

Dreamfoil's Bell 407 is still the gold standard for X-Plane helicopters, in my opinion 

also worthy of a mention for freeware is John Brays Gazelle

https://github.com/John-Bray/GAZL-1132-BETA I believe

and the others he has done (e.g. tigre has a head tracking autocannon)

 

Edited October 18, 20223 yr by mSparks

The old BK-117....simply the best...IMO.

The SA315B Lama, but also the EC135.

I fly both CowanSim B206 L3 and JRX Bo105 with Helicopter Rescue Mission, They both great, but slightly heavy on FPS even compare to complex airliner.

2 Free helo I also use is HSF & Rotorsim EC135  and  AS365 N2 Dauphin. The EC135 somehow easy to enter LTE in my flight style and AS365's 4 axis AP sometimes make jerk on collective when engaging and disengaging..

I think its probably worth noting that, absolutely nothing can compete with any helicopter ever made for X-Plane though, so lets just list them all, even the default S76 is pretty decent 😛

Edited October 19, 20223 yr by mSparks

My favorite has been the X-Trident Bell 412. I like medium weight twin engine helicopters, they're a little more forgiving to fly than the twitchier light helicopters, and twins like this have the more advanced autopilot systems. It also has some fun operational modes like floats, searchlight, sling ops, firefighting water dumps. The default 76 uses some of the same systems features, I'm not sure if that's carried over in XP12.

1 hour ago, Paraffin said:

My favorite has been the X-Trident Bell 412. I like medium weight twin engine helicopters, they're a little more forgiving to fly than the twitchier light helicopters, and twins like this have the more advanced autopilot systems. It also has some fun operational modes like floats, searchlight, sling ops, firefighting water dumps. The default 76 uses some of the same systems features, I'm not sure if that's carried over in XP12.

Works in XP12, but has a dataref warning on load...

9 hours ago, mSparks said:

I think its probably worth noting that, absolutely nothing can compete with any helicopter ever made for X-Plane though

Is this baiting for some type of comparison war that usually derail threads like this? I disagree and some others may as well, but you can start another thread for that topic doomed for a lock down.

6 hours ago, Paraffin said:

My favorite has been the X-Trident Bell 412

Yes, this is my goto Heli since I had issues with the BK-117 working with later versions of XP.

21 minutes ago, OverTheEDJ said:

Is this baiting for some type of comparison war that usually derail threads like this? I disagree and some others may as well, but you can start another thread for that topic doomed for a lock down.

Just a simple observation that even the most basic thrown together heli in XP by someone who has never actually sat in a cockpit far exceeds anything you can get anywhere else. There really are no other options? FSX? good grief no.

Probably a more interesting focused question is "whats you favourite helicopter and why"

for me Im torn between

and the Gazelle SA341, for differing reasons.

But in terms of the op question its really no different than asking whats your favourite car/bike or plane.

 

Edited October 19, 20223 yr by mSparks

Hughes 500D and the EC-145, both freeware.

33 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Hughes 500D and the EC-145, both freeware.

Wheeeeeere ?????????? 🤩

21 hours ago, jcomm said:

Wheeeeeere ?????????? 🤩

Really?!? X-Plane.org, i.e. the usual place, XP11 aircraft downloads, helicopters section. You should know that since you haven't been here since yesterday.