Thanks. Yes it does have vrs modeled. The Taogs Hangar stuff is the best helicopter simulations on any platform in my opinion. The autos are really good. I just have it more to learn and practice. The collective is an old max flight sticks one which I designed and 3D printed a hughes 500 style grip and swapped the buttons over.

@@simonclark7082 Great, thanks. I'm in the process of designing and building a custom collective. I haven't found one to buy that really fits what I am looking for.

Thanks. A few of us quite often are flying on our discord a few nights a week. discord.gg/u2NsxwSA Welcome to join us if you want to fly further south. Often we flying in around Central North Island and Fiordland region.

Basically film what ever you want with a high definition camera and then use software like reality capture or metashape to convert to photogrammetry. Obviously the model will be too poly heavy and looks abit rubbish as a raw scan but then if you make a model in blender you can swap out the existing model and overlay the photogrammetry textures for a more realistic clean look.

@@simonclark7082 model hut only or surrounding area

@@sascenturion thanks.

It's a great looking area in the sim too which helps. I run Msfs map enhancement mod with Arcgis for better ground clarity textures. This area that I often fly in I have made my own 1m mesh so the terrain is very detailed which when combined with arcgis overlay from the map enhancement takes the sim to the next level. CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, GPU AMD 7900xtx, 64Gig Ram.

@@derkas13 Most likely not, but if it was a case of a real emergency with limited options and rapidly developing situation at that last stage I'm guessing you would do whatever it took to walk away from it.

You seem to be aggressive all the way down though? Bad habits to transfer. Do you have many hours on type?

@@pallidustigris yes I can imagine how dangerous it would be. The huey in the sim does autos the most accurately I've ever seen in a sim. No other developor has got close to the realism of Taogs Hangar team. I was just messing around seeing what I could get away with in a bad situation. I still need loads of practice refining the techniques etc but it's a lot of fun on msfs with this helicopter.

It's based on an old max flight stick one. I've redesigned and 3D Printed my own grip for it and swapped all the buttons over so it replicates a 500. Max flight sticks do have a 500 style set but it's not even close to the real thing.

@@simonclark7082 ok👍 you know about some places you can buy a collective?

Thanks alot. Great to see another fellow kiwi heli simmer too. There's a group of us that fly maybe a couple of times a week in a discord one of our group setup for audio coms etc and other heli Simming information. discord.gg/sXmDQEAJ The huey is great isn't it!! It's definitely the most realistic helicopter in the sim in my opinion.

Hi Simon- my apologies I should have perhaps clicked on the link promptly to join your discord server group but it now seems “Invalid “ I think perhaps it has expired.How possible would it be to send a new link if possible?Ive also got another NZ based flightsimmer & Huey sim pilot who has expressed interest in joining your group.Just yesterday we both did a little flying with our Hueys together.Kind regards.

@davidkitchingman2222 sure mate no problem. discord.gg/u2NsxwSA

@@danstlaurent9907 thanks alot mate. Definitely my favourite machine in the sim for looks. It's a shame the Cowansim 500E is so inaccurate externally as it has more attachments.

@@vientayuno934 yeah I love how the huey handles and flys so much more realistically than any of the others. I need to keep practicing my autos. 😂 So much fun challenging yourself tho.

Thanks mate. That's cool to hear. It's alot of fun practicing autos with that helicopter. It wasn't until I played the replay from external I realised just how bad mine were in this session 😂. I'll keep practicing.

@@simonclark7082 if you get in down in one piece and avoid a rollover, your good!

​@@Belatu42yep I would imagine in a real life emergency, it's about making a bad situation work.

Hi Simon, thanks sooo much for all your training videos. I’m just starting into flying helis and your lessons are a goldmine! Please can you tell me where I can get the training area you’re flying in. Can I buy it? Best regards, Pete.

@@anthonywillmin4189 thanks alot. I'm glad you are finding them useful. @Belatu42 has some excellent training videos as well that are much more professional than mine. The scenery where I mainly fly is in New Zealand. The helisika hangar/helipad is on flightsim.to, and the H's on the ground I use are just a small scenery I created to use for practice, with an area of 1m mesh. If you flick me an email at tussockgamecreations(@) outlook.com I can send you the H scenery for practicing in if you want.

@@WynHarrisCinematography yeah mate. That will be great. I've often thought I'd rather film the external shots of the replay from another helicopter as it would be easier to control it smoothly rather than using the drone camera which isn't as smooth at direction changes yet.

@@simonclark7082apparently there was talk about it being used. Probably in msfs24 sim 🙏🏻

@@rcpilot1103 thanks alot. Glad your enjoying them. It sure is alot of fun and rewarding like you say. I'm using a Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog for my cyclic as the handpiece which is now mounted to the VPforce Rhino. I'll send a link to the video I did on the setup. The collective is an old max flight sticks collective with the anti torque pedals as part of that package. I would probably get a virpal one if I was to get a collective from the start again and plan to upgrade to a virpal which is superior quality. The forcefeedback on the cyclic is something I couldn't go without now as the VPforce is soo good. It's not something you need to start obviously but it's absolutely enhances the experience to the next level. I've had various headsets over the years and they have only got better. Currently I have a Pimax Crystal, which has outstanding visuals and field of view. I run a reasonably high end pc which definitely helps with the sim but you can get a good experience with a mid tier gaming system. Mine is more used for other graphical processing which is why I have to have abit more power.

Hey thank you Simon. I'm not sure how I missed your video on the Rhino, but have since watched it. FF seems like a must according to many fliers out there. I guess I'll just have to get on the waiting list and move forward in the meantime with a non FF cyclic. Looking at this stage Virpil for all three or the Puma X. Both not cheap, so rather a hard decision at this stage. In the mean time you have a fair collection of clips for me to work though :) Cheers David

@@rcpilot1103 no problem. I have heard good things about the puma x as but have no personal experience with it. At the end of the day you can get used to and familiar with most setups with enough time. The closer to reality it is, can be much more rewarding and immersive tho. All the best with whatever you decide to do.

Thanks alot for your support. Yes you are correct. I've since learnt it's more of a guideline than a rule. I just had a few ask me what it was so just thought I'd try visualise it, in the sim. I've since been trying to do autos from in that shaded part of the chart and it's all about reactions. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. It's fun trying in the sim tho. Everything happens really quickly. 😅

Thanks alot mate. Sunrise looks so good in the sim.

Thanks. I made the helipad and take off area along with the deer just for the video. The area is a default area but I've added 1m terrain mesh and run the msfs map enhancement with arcgis running. I think the mesh makes the hilly peaks pop abit more than default.

@@simonclark7082 great job look really amazing . Love how this sim allows you to be creative & make great shorts like this . Keep up the great work

@@bigalsplayin thanks alot. I love that aspect of the sim that it has such good visuals and with a few extra custom addons on you can basically create what you want.

@@jonallsop7502 Just judging how far. If you look how far they are out front when your stopped on the ground sometime. It's not too hard judging the distance in VR.

Thanks. I have an AMD RC 7900xtx gpu. Yours shouldn't be lagging with a 4090. Something must be causing it. I can run relatively high settings too. I'm also running my own custom 1m resolution terrain mesh in areas as well.

@@danstlaurent9907 thanks mate. Yeah there's lots of visual queues that can be used . It's alot of fun practicing them. Door off is definitely the best in a 500.

The pilot are in the left seat in a MD500😊

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@@Kiwi_Dave yeah the takeoff and rotor position is something I'm still practicing to get right. This sim is getting better all the time in regards to helicopters. Tweaked flight models can help. Most devs flight models standard are pretty sub par for realism. Taogs Huey sets a new bar for what can be done with this sim. I have only seen left seat piloted 500s in NZ.😉

@@MagnusThornberg True, stand corrected, guess that's why I did my rating in the left seat.

@@simonclark7082 Sim can only go so far, what's really missing is the feel because a lot about flying helos is all feel. Any sim I've flown except Level-D stuff feels completely disconnected from the helicopter as if you're just controlling a drone. Good for practicing procedures though, but then again so is a white board. I'm not sure how to better replicate the controls with a home sim, maybe crank the sensitive on the cyclic to an uncomfortably high setting.

@@sascenturion thanks alot.

@@PolXuriachsweet as. I have a clip at the end of this video going through my sim setup. Skip to 38mins and it's at the end. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHrRgKKEYracg5Yfeature=shared

@@PolXuriach This one is just on my cyclic FFB unit. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZjOcod6a81miLcfeature=shared

Excellent video and superb flying. You are extrem accurate.. wow But what would you do on these approaches and departures when you loose the engine?

@Boradumir thanks. I have been practicing autos alot lately in all sorts of scenarios so plan to do a video on this soon. Sometimes you can make it work sometimes not. But practice definitely helps and just being prepared all the time. The worst thing is most of the helicopters in the sim won't auto correctly if at all with the exception of Taogs Hangar Helicopters and the Flyinside Jetranger. It's actually alot of fun in the sim just rolling off the throttle in the sim with a helicopter that will auto and seeing what you can make work at random times.

@@simonclark7082 Didn't expect a fast answer like that, since I am on nightshift... but I just forgot you're on the other side of the globe. Thx for the response. I am just coming back to the helis, done a lot heli flying in XP10 and XP11, but then the fixed wings also catched me. Now I am coming back to the rotor crafts and I really like it. Fun fact... I have done a lot of my flying in NZ using the sceneries made by NZA. So it is funny I found your channel tonight. Binge watching your brilliant videos right now. 👍👌

@@한스-e8i thanks. Yeah the VR view as main focus isn't everyones cup of tea.

@@MagnusThornberg thanks alot. Yeah toe in landings take abit of practice but basically once you have the toes in the ground, lower collective and tilt the disc into the slope, same for a sideways one skid. Lowering collective and tipping the disc in helps plant the part of the skid you have there firmly so your not light and moving around. Watch the rotor clearance on steep stuff tho. 😅

@@Itz_Jack57 thanks alot.

Thanks.

@@danstlaurent9907 thanks mate. Just trying to help with making the sim flying closer to the real stuff.

@@Pete-zm4xp thanks mate.

Thanks. The collective is based on an old max flight sticks collective which I designed and 3d printed a MD 500 style collective and swapped the buttons to so more accurate to a 500. The cyclic is a Hotas Warthog stick mounted in a VP Force Rhino force feed back base. Works great for helicopters particularly for simulating the vibrations and force trim on a 500.

@@vientayuno934 thanks alot. I find visuals are handy for how I learn too. They say a picture speaks a thousand words.

The trees and tussock around the landing area are ones I made to give more immersion in the landing spots I have through the kaimanawas. Default isn't bad but it lacks that typical new Zealand back country look and feel which is why I try to add to it.

@@simonclark7082 amazing job man!

Thanks. Most of it's common sense stuff that adds to you making the best approach under the conditions.

No worrys. The cyclic and pedals in the sensitivtys are in the center so its 1:1 how the stick feels. I am on the other hand using a very tweaked flight model that's far more accurate than default flight model.

@@simonclark7082 thanks so much for the reply. Is that flight model something you got from the developer? Or something you cooked up on your own? Or, I should say, how would one get their hands on that flight model? lol

It depends where you bought the model. I never buy anything off the in game marketplace as all the cfgs are encrypted. But if you get from the developers themselves all the cfgs can be edited. The one I have for the shrike is one a friend modded for me and then I've tweaked it further myself to make it a really enjoyable helicopter to fly in the sim now. If you have the version that's not from the marketplace you can easily have a try. Just email me and I can send the file through if you know how to replace cfgs etc. [email protected]

@@simonclark7082 awesome, thank you! I don’t currently have the Shrike, but I certainly will buy it to give it a try. I’ll send you an email.

@@pimdeboerr thanks. I use Metashape. I tried reality capture as its free but it's limited to nVidia gpus.

@@banijssen01 No worrys mate. Hopefully it's helpful.

Thanks.

Thanks. Having the controls set up as close to the real thing helps definitely. But most of it is just practice.

@@MALCFWATT it is slightly more extended over the default as it's attached to the forcefeedback VPforce Rhino base. All assists off. They make it harder to fly in my opinion.

@@MagnusThornberg thanks alot. I'll try keeping this format for any future tutorial stuff. Yeah I love practicing hovering as well.

@@kxizn generally if own and have installed in your community folder any helicopters or liverys those who fly with you use you will see the correct helicopter. You may also need to check your settings incase it's set to show a default or low quality one for ai and multiplayer traffic.

@@simonclark7082 Sweet I’ll check it out, thanks!!

Just use OBS for recording. It's easy to use.

@@simonclark7082 iam using a meta quest 3 with cable link. Not sure if works

@@The_Fabio_Fernandes obs just records what's in the screen so if you have VR view mirrored on screen it will work

Thanks. It's just north of Poronui Station, which is South East of Taupo in New Zealand. I have added some 1m Elevation mesh to the area and then use Arcgis overlay in MSFS Map Enhancement.

Thanks mate. Yeah I'm thinking of trying to do a series of short hopefully informative videos to help those starting out. I'll need to brush up on the physics involved too 😂

Powercheck, Payload and Permission Size, Shape, Slope, Surface, Sun/Shadow and Surrounds Wind and Wires Approach and Abort points Take-off and Termination(Landing) points Circuit (establish an upwind, crosswind, and downwind leg with ground references to have a final approach path that's as good as can be given the terrain and wind) You carry that out while orbiting over the site 500ft AGL

I'm not familiar with that as I've had no official helicopter training. But it makes sense. In fixed wing we have a list of procedures before commencing aerobatics routines, different of course but similar in that it's an assessment of all the factors. It's something I'll look at learning If it will be of help to others as well. I'll start off simple and work up.

@@MagnusThornberg thanks. Yep I can do another with the picture in picture sometime if that's helpful.

@@simonclark7082 I have to buy anti torque pedals in the fall. I have tried twist grip but it so hard to be gentle with the cyclic when you have to twist the grip at the same time. My collective/throttle is a small stick on the left of my joystick. It is so sensitive and I have really hard time to hover. I couple of mm and you go up or down. I can’t really feel any in ground effect (the bubble) they describe. The only helicopter I have felt it are in the stock Bell 407. I can’t get enough of your videos like the last one when you are landing and taking off. It’s so fluid🙏 I’m excited for 2024 and all of the helicopter stuff that’s coming. Sling loading and rescuing. I really hopes that you are not forced in to any campaign or career. If you haven’t seen the channel UpsideDownWash on KZbin you need to😁 A Norwegian Squirrel (h125) sling loader. He has many incredible videos from his work in the fjords of Norway. The landscape is much like New Zealand they say. One of his videos he shows the cyclic sensitivity of the helicopter. And how stable it is in trim with the friction knob is tight. He adjust the friction depending on what he is doing. When sling loading he seems to have it free and when transporting a little bit tighter. You learn tons of stuff just to watch him work. Like his collective hand rest the thumb on the seat to be more precise. The resting cyclic hand in his leg and so on.

@@adamschmidt8050 thanks alot. Hard to say off the top of my head. I have the Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog with the stick grip now on a VPforce Rhino force feedback base and the collective and pedals is a heavily modified old max flight stick jetranger set. The rhino is about 900 euros but absolutely worth it for serious Simming with the Warthog I've had for years. Not sure what it's worth at the moment.

@@murraydreyer235 thanks alot. I'm pretty sure it would be disappointing if I couldn't smell the jet a1 burning. 😂