Had a quick flight with the Bell-47 - wow, great fun! I love the Huey, so it’s an easy bird to like. Very controllable, feels and looks great.
It is a little confusing to get set up on this, so here’s my steps:
- Upuaut’s dropbox folder with the mod is closed now, due to too many downloads. I grabbed it from a mirror on Google Drive from here:
https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3122691&postcount=80
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You’ll need winrar to extract that, as it was zipped with a pretty old zip version header, so the file is fine but you might need another tool than 7zip to get at it.
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The .rar file doesn’t have install instructions (I think they are in the original dropbox that we can’t get to), but here’s what I did to get it to work (if you aren’t using JGSME):
(a) In your DCS install (Open Beta or Alpha, although I’ve just tried the Beta) in your ‘Mods/aircraft’ folder create an entry called ‘Bell47_2’.
(b) Un-rar everything from that google drive download into the folder, i.e. so it has subdirectories like ‘cockpit’ etc.
(c) (Optional step) - download the zip and follow the instructions in her, to fix a game crash issue (literally):
https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3120105&postcount=64
(d) Copy your Mods\aircraft\Uh-1H\bin directory to your new Mods\aircraft\Bell47_2 folder (so it has a \bin folder too). You need a valid copy of the Huey to fly, as it’s a tweaked model. If you don’t have the Huey you can use it as AI though.
Now just create a mission, map some controls and fly. It’s a really nice helo, great for viewing and in VR (cockpit has great visibility of course). If you equip in the right most station in the mission editor ‘weapons’, you can even choose a medvac MASH style pod. Obviously this works and looks great with Starways Vietnam map mod as well. Thanks for letting us all know about this @EightBall.