Had my neighbour over a few weeks ago to try out the Cabri in MSFS 2020. James was a training instructor on the Cabri here at Leicester airport , now flies the Agusta as a HEMS pilot, brilliant young man and neighbour. Within a few minutes of taking the sim controls he was flying the Cabri and doing auto rotates with ease, he was really impressed with MSFS saying it was pretty accurate. He did however, say, it was easier to fly the real thing !

That's a hello that needs to be in my hangar! Love that you've embraced longer-form video... almost 30 minutes! Great stuff, thank you.

Stumbled across this fantastic video while checking out FS2020….been flying in FS for years…but the graphical detail of the H125 and the scenery has renewed my hunger in FS….have now subscribed and can’t wait for more vids 🎉

I work at Banner hospital in security and I constantly see these helicopters land. it's really cool to see Banner Air inside the game! Thanks for the Start up man!!! Solid!

Very nice video Chris. I think this is definately going on my wish list. The list is growing rather quickly

Great video and I think I'm definitely going to have to put the H125 on my wishlist, looks like you really get your moneys worth. Also hadn't realised how extensive Manilla Bay scenery pack was, it looks great. Downloading now but has a lot of depencies 😂

Watched it!!! ❤❤❤ Awesome review. Thank you!! For others reading... I hear you!! Anything that can make the helicopter a better experience is on the table for further development. Thanks for all the feedback!!!

Great vid! All those lovely spots look a bit like James Bond villain hideouts =)

Absolutely gorgeous map! Kids playing? I mean come on! I don't have MFS but this video has certainly peaked my interest. Thanks for sharing.

Can’t wait for this to arrive in the marketplace, along with the H500, absolutely love the Cowan 206 and more great helicopters is a good thing!

Hahaha.. Ofcourse the video starts with Chris trying a loop with this chopper! Hillarious! :) Thanks Chris!

Great video! I’m a rotor pilot and it’s very obvious you are a fixed wing guy haha!! But all in all great stuff, will definitely be buying the 125

Thank you for this excellent video, it really helped me to find some of the hidden click spots and features. Initially I was not impressed with the Cowansim H125, but it is growing on me. A manual would really help, but so far none of the Cowansim helis for MSFS had anything but a checklist. I am surprised how well you managed to keep the H125 stable, had lots of twitchiness with lateral steering. But a nice gentleman on the MSFS forums suggested some slight corrections to the flight model config that really improved the handling. To sum it up, all three Cowansim helis for MSFS feel like they still need quite some work. In the current state I think they are overpriced, but let's hope they all get updated after this quick release sequence (B206, MD500, H125).

The looks of the H125 have always appealed to me. Even over the newer Generation of Helicopters. Think i'll give this a month, then add it to my fleet that includes their 206B and 500E already. The H125 body style, with upgraded avionics would be my dream...Nice aviating for a fixed wing pilot 😄.

Cannot wait for this in the marketplace looks amazing the thing in real life has some amazing blade slap sounds but nothing can beat the chinook blade slap hopefully we get one in the sim one day!

Great review, thanks!!!

I love helos. Always nice when people say it. 👋

that looks really neat

Super product. Will get it ASAP 😊

Great episode and nice heli. Thanks as always great infotainment! I wonder if the lacking precision on ground is partially caused by time effects we all are experiencing in the sim. When dealing with virtual instruments in sim you need way more time for handling (panning camera, looking for the (smaller then real) item, non-haptic inputs, tricky clickspots)... then you would in reality. "Less time" for doing things especially in critical multitasking situations - less precision. When playing around with the time feature in sim i found that a slowing down of around 10-15% in these situations should improve the perceived realism quite a bit. Unfortunately the feature doesnt allow for gradual speed adjustments and starts with -25% which is way too slow. And of course no one wants to run the sim the whole time slower then real time... yet a feature that adjust the time in e.g. landing situations smoothly with no noticable transitions would improve the perceived precision quite a bit. In some console games this feature exists for the exact same reason.Thanks again! 💙

I used to be a line guy who fueled N851MB. Livery looks spot on.

24:20 this looks so real! I mean, just look at those cliffs!!

What beautiful video 🎉

nice livery 😍

Impressive! Have you consider doing an helicopter tutorial? More tutorial on the channel?

It looks very good, although I’m hesitant buying it in early access, while they have 2 other helicopters in EA as well. Did they already improve the 500E? But I’ll definitely get that scenery, it looks amazing! (You should also check the Victoria falls scenery, which’s amazing)

I’ve never flown a helo on msfs and only a couple on FSX. The Cowan H125 showed up so I bought it…🤔… I’m HOOKED! Between fsx and msfs I have close to 3000hrs fixed wing time…that has come to a complete FULL STOP! I am addicted! Now I’m drooling over HYPE H160 with my fingers hovering precariously over the BUY NOW button🤣. But I will stick to the H125 to get completely in tune with flying helicopters. I got caught flying from Calgary to Kamloops, winter night time VFR in IMC conditions…through the Rockies…Almost made it by watching ground proximity radar and nose to the windscreen visual flying. Then low fuel warning…then sweating…pushing it just a little more as I knew I was only 15 miles from the comfort of Revelstoke….thats when I changed profession from helicopter pilot to tree trimming…and ROCK scaling!🤣 The first time I was ever exposed to helicopter gaming was at a game arcade back in the early 1960’s when I was about 5. It was a 4’ diameter acrylic dome with a helicopter mounted on an articulating arm and two joysticks to control speed and elevation! I’ve never forgotten that feeling!

I'm in two minds about how Cowan does optional gear - it's a very clunky interface but it's quite clever how he's reused core functionality there. The problem with adding seperate versions of the helicopter would be liveries - the amount of liveries I've ended up with for the EC145 without having that much selection is a bit nuts at this point. An EFB ( or a clipboard! more people need to use clipboards ) with config presets as well as options would be ideal I think. The model looks like it has less rough edges than the 500, some of the dash textures look a bit rough though, is that youtube or are they actually that way? French/Soviet rotor direction, so right skid low is good. Overtorquing like that should probably set all sorts of maintenance flags off :) I do hope you bind your collective to a reversed throttle so you pull to go up! VRS is not that big a deal in a real helicopter I've always been assured ( I have a couple of flights in a Jetranger of some sort from a couple of decades ago, I don't count - heli lessons are absurdly expensive ), for some reason sim pilots have latched onto it... you'd need to be descending vertically with some power in, and real helicopter flight profiles don't actually go fully vertical much anyway. I get the feeling your quick stop turn might have put you more at risk than the vertical descent! If you think night flight is bad, try night formation flight :S Does this one want to roll left in cruise like his other aircraft want to roll right? ( rotor goes the opposite way in France, so forward side is on the left ) - that's actually made me put the 500 away.

Hi! Great video. But where do all does leisure boats come from?

Great video!! Just got it myself, what are your control settings? I cannot get it lift off and land smoothly.

Looks good

Best ever video ! At least for me. I’m new in MSFS. I got RTX 4090 but never seen such smooth graphic like yours, not even close. Could you please share with us your graphic setting. I would be really appreciate.

Fantástic 👍

That co-pilot looked like a Mysteron! Quick, call Captain Scarlett!

Hi... You use the heli very stable... Do you use trim buttons or only cyclic and collective?

Question is whether it will be possible to bind force trim? Currently no option in MSFS apparently...

Fantastic Video thank you. One question. Does it have auto pilot

At 24:40 I think it's called a 'Hammer Head', but don't quote me. Done plenty in the DCS Huey and Gazelle. You weren't quite 90° at the turn but I'll give you it 😉 Nice wee whirly with plenty going on. Does is model ground effect though? I feel that you can't have a helo in a sim if it doesn't have ground effect implemented. That's one of the main challenges of helo flying for myself. As for the vid, excellent as always and very informative. Nice one Sir. Thank you 👍🏻

Whats the best controller set up video you recommend? My cowansim 500e is basically unflyable😮

Is the camara working now with updates ?

how is this one compared to the asobo helis and maybe comared to the HPG H135?

Does anyone here have a custom camera method they prefer? I’m familiar with the “experimental” replay tool, but I don’t know how to get those angles removed from the aircraft itself

Can you do a video showing all the Liveries of this beast?

Does it have force trim? Or trim hats only like airplanes?

Very nice video again, thanks. Scenery looks very good, but with 17 dependencies for libraries, makes it an 8GB download! 😮

Are you a professional pilot with experience on the H125? If yes, is that an issue or real that on acceleration and climbing the copter dives sometimes?

Could you do a series on the F/A 18 Super Hornet, would be great as it’s quite confusing and everyone has it.

I like the heli but the high pitch whine of the motor drives me crazy. Is there a way to lessen that noise and still be able to hear the blades?

scale of cowan people to ms is off. Wish it would allow the tactical co pilot to show for PD use. Could not get rid of hems after bringing it in, even when I set weight to 0. Thanks for this. oh, yeah, how are the outside panels opened?

I have to chuckle when hearing/reading how things could be done a little better…I just think back to…. Flight Simulator 95! 😂 That is like comparing stick men drawings to Picasso artwork!😂

Whats the ICAO for that heli pad?? Or is not stock in game? I love it!

what joystick etc are you using for the heli?

Not sure what the exact term is but is it possible to autogirate in the event of an engine failure?

Where is this on the world map?

did you have to change any calibration settings? mine does not fly normally

I need a real one Chris. Thanks very much !!

But I need this chopper for FREE for my fan animation project! Is there a way to acquire this chopper for free? GTA V doesn't have one available.

Hopefully with freeware coming to the Xbox we’ll start to get some of the RAF bases especially for ex-RAF personnel like myself (is there really such people?)

Does MSFS have any high fidelity modules?

... any chance you can do a video re the Guimbal Cabri G2 please

Who has the best controller set up for helicopters? I can’t even fly my MD500E 😮

It is nice but why does the AP not work?

Will the skins from the Xplane version work on these?

is this for xbox too??

Nice vid I'm a AS 555 pilot and i found this add on impressive. But call me when a pilot will weight 45 kg with full gear lol

It's not showing on market place for Xbox though?

Is this a simulated flight? I want to download it. Is it available in Chinese?

What aircraft do you fly irl?

How much power h have to fly slow

24:35 it’s called an ag turn!

Sorry to be pedantic, but H is spelt "aitch". The only h is on the end!

No way I can control the Heli this smooth with a standard joystick... Or?

I find the heli’s from Cowan very difficult to fly with no assists! Especially rudder pedal input is all over the place. Even the DCS Apache is easier to fly!

I'm not a fan of using the MSFS weight & balance menu to toggle features on and off. Definitely needs to be on an iPad, clipboard, or pop-up menu like the CowanSim X-Plane version has. I don't want separate thumbnails for each variant in the MSFS aircraft selection menu though. Not a CowanSim issue, but I wish Asobo would update their aircraft selection menu so there is only ONE thumbnail box for each aircraft. That box could have click spots for "Configure", "Favorites", "Last flown". Click on "Configure" and a menu opens to select the developer, variant, options, and liveries. Click "Favorites" to open a list of your pre-configured favorite set-ups. "Last flown" loads whatever configuration was last flown. While I like multiple variants and liveries for aircraft, I hate having to scroll through a bunch of options and liveries I never use. A search/sort function for liveries would be nice too. You could put in "Police" + "CA" and it would show you all the Police liveries from CA, or "UK" + "Medical" for all the medical liveries with UK registrations, instead of scrolling through 100 thumbnails trying to find a desired livery.

Still waiting for the 500E to release for the Xbox marketplace 😔

There is for Xbox?

100 liveries??? okay. :Skull:

"AITCH", please!

So nothing of the cool stuff like the searchlight and camera are working

Hi Chris Great video as always, Thanks I know you like your fixed wings there is a great little freeware from Jonx and the team at got friends its the Cessna T37 usaf Trainer thought you might like to check it out. Its great fun.

100 liveries ! i'm always pissed when an addon comes with like 4 liveries. every details counts, i certainly do not enjoy spending hours looking for liveries for every single aircraft in my simulators

"sss-eye-click" trust me...

The helo desperately needs a EFB.

I know the real thing leans to the right but this would drive me insane...

I get the privilege to fly an as350 at work and this model is nothing like the real thing. The design is great just like in xplane but the flight models are both very inaccurate.

It looks amazing, but to be honest I am bit tired of buying $35 add-ons that are all to be finished! I have all the offerings form this dev and all are not finished. I understand the thinking behind it and I am not saying its a scam or not worth it, but I am not sure I want 3 unfinished products with no doubt more to come.

Sun cream and cocktails so over the place...

What puts me off re Cowan Sim helicopters is the horrible rotor animation fitted to the otherwise nice models. The rotors are animated as seen in cheap smartphone videos, not what the human eye would see. The individual blades need to be a LOT more blurred making it more like a rotor disc than individual blades turning when at high RPM. For the Bell 206 is sort of bearable because it's only 2 blades, but for the MD500 and also this H125 it just looks awful. The sim is capable of having much more realistic animations for rotors, as is evident with some of the competitors. I really wish Cowan would make this part more realistic. Until then I'm afraid I have to avoid getting any of his stuff.

bad texture...............

Retail helicopter sims are trash, they don't become even remotely realistic until Level-D