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Very nice. Looks to be a high quality creation 
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Wait — they bought a plane in Poland and expected the fuel tank to be full? 
Decades ago, I visited Posen. Pauls experience with the plane reminds me of something a polish guy told me: Apparently his car had a hidden immobilizer. You had to adjust the left mirror while pressing the button on the hand brake and stepping on the brake pedal to start it. I was young and believed him. Today I think he might have been pulling my leg. Either that or it’s a two man job to start a polish vehicle. 
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FREEWARE ROBINSON R44: NOW SWITCHED TO MSFS’S NEW NATIVE ROTOR MODEL
Robinson R44 Helicopter by RotorsimPilot Community and Airland Studios. Features the new native flight model as supported by 40th anniversary edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Features realistic flight dynamics and startup procedures. Please enjoy !
https://flightsim.to/file/45703/robinson-r44-raven-ii-helicopter-40th-anniversary-edition
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Thanks for linking HiFlyer. It’s a really nice add-on. I’ll let the IRL rotor pilots here debate the FM, but it feels good enough for my purposes. You can definitely feel the weight difference between it and the Cabri G2.
Over 100 liveries.
Took her for one of my guilty pleasure rides, departing top of US Bank downtown LA, following the I10 west to Santa Monica and then south down the coast towards my old stomping grounds at Manhattan Beach. I use Sim4Sky 1.3 to remain oriented as to streets. Very handy. Have not tried the upgrade to Sky4Sim NG yet.
The poor Santa Monica pier looks like it has suffered a flooding event 
Checking out KLAX with AI traffic. Seemed a little on the quiet side.
Taking a peak down 44th street where I lived with my brother one summer.
Nice ride.
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Nice!
Are there other helicopter add-ons that use the new Heli flightmodel?
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I’m not aware of any others. Here’s hoping that the freeware H135 will get migrated.
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think you didnt get answer
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just checked few and it seems H135 is already there @chipwich I mean this is from change log
November 16, '22
1.4.6 Changelog:
- Compatible with Sim Update 11
need to run MSFS to test em
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What’s it like? I’ve heard good things on Reddit about it. Looks very nice.
Thanks, but I still don’t know if it has improved since release…?
I’ll ask directly!
Will @PaulRix please come to the thread!
Reporting for duty! 
The Aeroplane Heaven Spitfire Mk1 is well done, the only weakness being the engine sounds. They did make some effort to improve that aspect but it still sounds a little lackluster. Other than that though, it is nicely detailed, handles well enough with a lighter and less powerful feel than the FlyingIron Spitfire Mk IX, which of course is as it should be.
If you are a Spitfire fan then it’s a must have, but I would rank it second to the Mk IX.
Aeroplane Heaven products got a bad rap mainly because of the sounds (which were weak on all their products) and a somewhat prickly approach to community criticism, but we all know that there are certain vocal elements who are very demanding and act like disrespectful, spoiled children. They did get the message where the sounds are concerned, even if it will only benefit other projects. The DC3 has an excellent sound set and the forthcoming Lancaster will have the sounds done by the same team.
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Thank you!
You can chalk one more up on the Bad Influencer list!
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NEVO, I downloaded and tried the latest build (447) last night. IMHO there doesn’t seem to be any changes to the FM. In other words, it’s helicopter functional using default fixed wing input with throttle reversed, but has little feel that I am flying a helicopter. Very Tie fighter like. It goes up when I pull the collective and forward when I push the cyclic, but other than that, it’s very sanitary, for lack of a better description. It doesn’t use any of the helicopter control bindings either. I remain skeptical, but interested in your opinion.
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last time I test flown it had the same experience with the controls. strange, thought they updated it further. will try it again in the near future hopefully 
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few quick observations
- HPG introduced new installer
- update changelog for latest version of EC135 says ‘updated UI rotorcraft category; spawn on heliports’
- wondering, is there need for the new helicopter controls when even the airplane controls work?
so seems they didnt spend too much time with the update, just the necessary obviously. iirc from my last testing it really wasnt categorized as rotorcraft in the UI.
still just my theoretical observations, didnt launch it yet
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The R44 wasn’t available on my XB. I’ll try it on the PC later. Still enjoying helicopters in general. @NEVO isn’t wrong. But still, I find more to like than otherwise, plus a few smile-inducing surprises.
I flew the 1.3 version of the R44 last night for about an hour. It’s challenging in a fun way to fly, but I do notice what some have commented about the other helicopters in MSFS, that I hadn’t picked up on before. I guess getting unstuck is the appropriate phrase. It’s not that it’s difficult to do, but rather that the amount of collective to lift the aircraft is far greater than to hover in GE, which does make sense, but in this case the differential means that it is difficult to transition from liftoff to a hover check. In other words, the amount of collective required to lift is such that it’s hard to get into a stable hover in order to taxi or orient the aircraft smoothly. With practice it can be done, but I never reach the point that it’s committed to “muscle memory”. Anyway, work in progress.
BTW, if you are using the most recent 40th Anniversary edition with one of the many liveries created for the previous version, you need to edit the aircraft.cfg in each livery folder so the the line ui_typerole is set to “Rotorcraft” instead of “Lightweight Helicopter”. Otherwise even though the base aircraft is correct, the addition of the liveries will move the R44 to the Other category when selecting aircraft in the sim. It should look like this:
ui_typerole = “Rotorcraft”
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