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New Freeware Alouette III Helicopter released for XP12

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HSF team, members of whom have worked on the Rotorsim EC135 and excellent EC130 have a new helo out and this time it's a Freeware SA316B Alouette IIII (for XP12 only)

I'm really liking it - it's not as hard-core as the payware SA315B Lama but that's no bad thing, instead what you have is a simple, fun and relatively easy to fly utility turbine helicopter that  looks good overall, comes with a whole heap of options and best of all doesn't cost a penny.

I highly recommend giving it a try (and this is just the first release who know how much better it can get 🙂 )

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/88663-hsf-alouette-iii-xp12

Edited by Matchstick

Thank you !!! Precious !!!

Have the Best Memories of the PAF Alouette III USED as a SAR unit during the Summer time in the Portuguese beaches as well as in "Rotores de Portugal" heli flight demonstration team:

Rotores de Portugal - Wikipedia

Looking fwd to try it in 12.08b1

 

Edited by jcomm

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Having tried it a few days ago, I enjoyed it overall, but just as with most rotaries in XP, I find that in order to fly "coordinated" = ball centered, across a considerable spectrum of speeds, I am actually flying sideways in a pronnounced sideslip ???

I have never flown a real heli other than an H300 during a short ride, more than 30 yrs ago 🙂

Hey @MSparks!  Please comment!

Flying gliders since 1980

Flightsimming since 1992

AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)

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5 hours ago, jcomm said:

Having tried it a few days ago, I enjoyed it overall, but just as with most rotaries in XP, I find that in order to fly "coordinated" = ball centered, across a considerable spectrum of speeds, I am actually flying sideways in a pronnounced sideslip ???

I have never flown a real heli other than an H300 during a short ride, more than 30 yrs ago 🙂

Hey @MSparks!  Please comment!

If you are flying with any kind of x-wind then sideslip when the ball is centred is to be expected.
Do you know what the weather conditions were that you were flying in ?

15 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

If you are flying with any kind of x-wind then sideslip when the ball is centred is to be expected.
Do you know what the weather conditions were that you were flying in ?

Null / very light... And it wasn't anything like weathervane...

Edited by jcomm

Flying gliders since 1980

Flightsimming since 1992

AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)

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