Feature Discovery Series Episode 15: Helicopters

[Krakin 5,767]

 

Edited November 4, 2022 by Krakin

[sauviat 137]

It says video unavailable, this video is private!

[orchestra_nl 931]

Hopefully this one will work:
https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg

[Farlis 2,287]

Just now, orchestra_nl said:

Hopefully this one will work:
https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg

It does.

[Krakin 5,767]

it should be fixed now

 

[St Mawgan 1,372]

Looks great. 

[Zangoose 1,631]

That helicopter seems to have a Garmin unit in it - I wonder if that is either PMS or TDS or something unannounced. I suppose we shall soon see! 

[jcomm 5,938]

🥰🤩

[bigifooti 156]

I really like it that Asobo explains what and how they develop the sim.

Offcourse the communication channels back in the FS2004/FSX days weren't like they are now, but you also didn't read anything like this in the flight sim magazines you had back than.

[ryanbatc 12,857]

Ooooooh.  Looks fun.  Neat that they have assistance mode for those of us without proper helicopter controls.

And they will appear to simulate a lot of rotorcraft-specific items!

Exciting!

[Rimshot 1,142]

I suck at helikopter flying, nevertheless, looking forward to this!

[lwt1971 7,417]

Incredible! ... As much as I love and appreciate their insights into how they do the 3D modelling and 3D audio for the new types of aircraft they develop, I could sit there and listen to Seb go on and on about the physics and flight model 🙂... hopefully they'll do an even deeper dive on these topics later.

Particularly cool how the ring vortex effect (https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg?t=408) is simulated where on downward movement of the heli the rotors cause a spiraling vortex to form over them which then reduces its ability to stay in the air. Other aspects of helicopter physics simulated (CFD driven):

• new rotor technology simulating hundreds of surfaces on rotors: https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg?t=362
• ground effect (more lift when closer to ground): https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg?t=385
• translational lift: https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg?t=400
• flapping and various forms of phase lag: https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg?t=418
• autorotation: https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg?t=441
• CFD airflow visualization for all of above: https://youtu.be/67_Pc8mouOg?t=369 (will be interesting to see how this interacts with the atmospheric CFD-driven airflow simulation within 20km cocoon around aircraft)

I guess the default helis that'll come with the 40th anniv release (Guimbal Cabri G2 and the Bell 407) will make use of all this. Assuming the existing 3rd-party helis will need to be updated to make use of these core features in the sim.

Also good to keep an eye on https://www.helisimmer.com for their expert review of MSFS heli support once it's out there, and all other things heli simming .
 

Edited November 4, 2022 by lwt1971

[polosim 841]

A new era begins in MSFS2020!!

If you want to really enjoy as real as possible the experience of flying a helicopter, you must use the appropriate hardware.
From my own experience I can recommend the options offered by OE - XAM ( http://oe-xam-simulators.blogspot.com/ ), not because they are better than other brands, but because it is the hardware that I use in my home setting. Remarkable!

 

[espent 1,397]

1 hour ago, Zangoose said:

That helicopter seems to have a Garmin unit in it - I wonder if that is either PMS or TDS or something unannounced. I suppose we shall soon see! 

Looks like this one from Garmin web site

[ryanbatc 12,857]

2 minutes ago, polosim said:

A new era begins in MSFS2020!!

If you want to really enjoy as real as possible the experience of flying a helicopter, you must use the appropriate hardware.
From my own experience I can recommend the options offered by OE - XAM ( http://oe-xam-simulators.blogspot.com/ ), not because they are better than other brands, but because it is the hardware that I use in my home setting. Remarkable!

 

When I used xp11 I definitely considered buying a decent helicopter setup.  I used one at the flight school near by my old facility and it wasn't extremely expensive and it made the sim so much nicer and enjoyable.