My pleasure!

This looks great, will you be selling at other stores?

Older helicopters are a need in the sim!! Hopefully this makes it to the Xbox soon. Any planes for future old helos?

@@drumbum353 I'm working on the Lama and the Huey :)

@@taogshangar2323 can’t wait to see them on Xbox someday!

That’s amazing, thank you for sharing all of that! What an experience! Such a versatile airframe

Awesome to read about your real life experiences! ..thanks for posting

The Rhodesian Airforce used these. Absolutely great chopper. Distinct sound and beautiful to watch flying. But only as good as the pilots that flew them.

It’s close to very very good! I’m a fan of the gazelle, even in DCS

You can see a where the lama came from too ;)

That would make sense, never seen it on a helo before

Sorry for the delayed reply, I’ve been on a break. Great story though, must have been quite a sight!

@@cgaviator It was. R22s notwithstanding, helicopters at very close quarters are hugely impressive. Especially when they pretty much land on your chimney. Though I do have a better story. Summer, a good few years ago now, family vacation, Dordogne valley (France), one of my 3 sisters and a local tennis bum who she took a fancy to. She was caught smooching him in a field next to some hay bales one evening and for the next few days we teased her mercilessly about Giant Haystacks as the tennis guy was now christened. Keen to get me onside and knowing how much I love aircraft, she told me that Haystacks was joining the Armee de L’Air and that he had a brother who was already a fast jet pilot. I called total BS on all of that. She told Haystacks as much and he took umbrage. As, it seems, did his brother. The day after I called nonsense on all of the Armee de L’Air stuff, I was in the pool at the house we were renting, trying to get out of the heat and was chatting with one of my other sisters when her mouth dropped wide open and she pointed behind me. I turned to see a pair of Jaguars at about 250 feet, less than quarter of a mile away, on a run directly at our house. The lead pulled up very slightly before passing overhead, but his wing man dropped to considerably less than 100 feet and thundered directly over the pool I was in…so low that he had to tip a wing to squeeze his aircraft between our house and our neighbour’s. This all happened in a couple of seconds. It also sounds a bit exaggerated, but I swear that it isn’t. That lunatic legend shook a couple of tiles loose and I’m almost certain he cut it closer than he meant to. He pulled up to join his lead and the two of them zoomed off in close formation down the valley in a lovely haze of heat and noise. I was massively impressed and it was an incredible moment to see a beautiful machine like that so incredibly close and loud. I got strafed - minus all the expensive and pointy ordinance. Anyway. Fantastic to see you back, CG. Hope you have a lovely Christmas and I hope to see some more content from you soon. 🤗 Edit: It goes without saying that I know of your own fast jet experience on the more enviable side of the canopy. But for us civilians, the rare close encounters are incredible. I’ve also has RAF Tornadoes in the North of Scotland buzz my car - that was also magic. GT3, very early, I wasn’t hanging around and the roads were empty - I guess they fancied a look at the only other fast mover for miles.

Brilliant, I thought there may still be a few out there!

Thanks for the background, interesting to hear everyone’s real world experience with these aircraft.

Sad news but an amazing helicopter! I’ve heard some great stories already in the comments

Is that right!? Where, with who? Must have been quite the experience!

@@cgaviator Irish Air Corps. I was in a photo recce Sqn . I mainly flew on fixed wing maritime patrols but we used helicopters regularly for recce for the army and SOF. Sad day when they retired in 2007 after 44 years service and many lives saved in the SAR role. Very stable platform for photo work. The sound of the Artouste engine was very distinctive and will stay with me for life as not only did I hear it everyday in work but I grew up near the courts where they would provide top cover during the troubles when terrorists were being tried. Actually the first aircraft I ever seen as a toddler and I ended up flying in the very same ones many years later.

@@Machlooper you never forget those distinctive noises! They were still going in 2007? Impressive!

That would have been great to see! They don’t make em like they used to!

I like them precisely because they are tricky to fly smooth

A demo team, brilliant! I remember watching an Indian helo team of four, scary stuff being so close!

Or sweets. You could throw handfuls of sweets instead.

😂 Shoot arrows or sweets… got it! 😂

My pleasure! Lots of potential for sure

With Austria!? Wow! No one has mentioned them so far. Great tribute to a well built helo!

I sent who, what, lol!?! 😂

@@cgaviator You convinced me to buy it even though I really wanted to get it from simmarket or orbx or somewhere I shop more often😆

Fingers crossed he can fix the interaction issues

You’re very welcome!

I think you’d have use for both! 😉😂

The rudder definitely needs adjusting, but I’ve heard some great info about the trapdoor. Pinned for others to read 👍🏻

Pretty good sounds for the most part 👍🏻

Thank you kindly 🙏🏻

Thanks 👍🏻

Think the yaw issues are already sorted 👍🏻

@@cgaviator Good to know, thanks.

My pleasure 👍🏻

It does, I always enjoy the unusual! And this ticks that box!

Agreed, there’s a lot more functionality that needs to be added with throttles, governors and the rest of it.

Glad to hear it! 😁

Thank you! Specs are at a link in the description. RTX3070

What basics do you mean? And you’re right, I’m yet to explore the new world updates.

I see that as all having unique tasks, handling characteristics. The H145 is excellent, but I enjoy the old stuff more

@@cgaviator While I don't disagree with you, the Huey is my all time favorite helicopter, when it comes to siming, I am a bit more practical and don't like to have multiple aircraft that do the same thing. I guess one way to do that would be to buy this instead of the Action Pack for the HPG H145, then I would have a vanilla H145 and the older AIII to do the rescue stuff, though admittedly the HPG Action Pack adds a lot of animated features so it really becomes, $35 for the Action Pack or $30 for the AIII?

@@ImpendingJoker to me that would be down to handling preference. The 145 action pack is astonishing and leaps beyond anything else in the sim. Only reason I don’t fly it as much is it’s a dab complex and the flying isn’t as fun. The MilViz huey should be good!

@@cgaviator Oh, I didn't know MilViz was ruining another aircraft. They did a pretty poor job on the Huey for FS9/FSX back in the day. It was in partnership with Nemeth Designs and to say it was a hatchet job would be putting it kindly, but I'll keep an eye out for it and your review just the same. Hey, at least it's not Virtavia or Captain Sim.

Thanks

TrackIR plus Xbox controller for external camera movement 👍🏻

Pinochet?

Agreed! 😁

Yes!

I can… all default 👍🏻

@@cgaviator okay that’s great!! Many thanks!!

How would one ‘fascinate’ in!? 🤣 That tickled me!

@@cgaviator "Facilitate", ingress and egress. but my shirt has 9 buttons, but I can only fasten- eight. "Fascinate".

@@pe1pq 🤣 👌🏻

Lol, I’ll take a peak! 😂 It’s pretty good but needs some polish. Lots of potential though

Thanks! I’m using nvidia filters which may be the reason my fields are popping a little. Always found the default colour a little red

@@cgaviator Thanks!

Lol, that's very niche! Probably not any time soon lol. Haven't had chance to fly it since, though I know it's had an update already. If you use PC then you may find some more liveries on fs.to

I believe it is the first wheeled helo. I submitted the ground taxi as a bug, my nosewheel just wouldn’t shift! Glad you’re enjoying 👍🏻

@@cgaviator I was wondering what was going on with the nosewheel on mine, thought I was missing a nosewheel lock somewhere! Good to hear thats been added to 'the list'! Still, despite the bugs I've been having fun!

@@cgaviator Sometimes I have to move the parking brakes several times before the wheel start to move. So a bit weird, but going in the right direction. I am surprised how much I am enjoying the ugly litte beast :D

@@volkerjansen3901 ugly ones try harder! 😂

It’s clever for sure, TrackIR is what I use

@@cgaviator Looks very good. Thanks!

Setup details in the link in description

It’s so - that the winch operator can see the HEC (human external cargo) - the winch cable doesnt touch the fuselage - the HEC can get easier in and out of the cabin

@@TimToussaint makes sense. HEC 😂 I guess newer helos can move the hoist further away from door

I’m not sure. Worth checking the product page on flightsim .to. I’m not sure he’s setup for it but fingers crossed for the future.

Here’s hoping the painters will make more available

South African Airforce livery is a must. Bush warfare workhorse on the Angolan South African border. Saved a lot of our troops from the terrs.

@@patjam2 I’m hoping to see lots of custom paints for it!

@@patjam2 Same for the Algerian war, the Yom Kippur and Six-day wars, the Portuguese and Rhodesian bush wars. This chopper saw a lot of action. So to release it with these tame liveries is like putting out a Huey in Costa Rican turtle-counting & conservation livery and forgetting all about the role in Vietnam. I sense an excessively politically correct developer.

I should have figured that lol!

They flew these? I’m sure the community will get some good liveries going for it

@@cgaviator yeh, one guy flew with his dog lol. They would basically chase the enemy and a Dakota would fly ahead and drop paras.Thanks for the vid 👍

@@cheshirepiper9254 amazing! And my pleasure 👍🏻

Maybe online if you have PC?

Real deal?

I’m sure the painters will make on soon enough 👍🏻

It’s certainly no DCS, but it’s a massive step up from P3D. Hopefully it gets more of the dynamics tweaked in the updates.

Maybe DCS would be more to your liking.

The H145 does a good job with rockets and guns but the flying experience is, by real design I think, a little meh! But yes, a proper all out warbird would be nice! Maybe a wildcat? Or we’re you thinking Apache? Trouble with the latter is the guns aren’t allowed on marketplace so it would limit sales. Stupid rule!