HiFlyer 758 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) IPACS' simulator will get a big update soon which will bring us the second official helicopter for the sim: https://www.helisimmer.com/news/aerofly-fs2-update-ec-135?fbclid=IwAR36_ysZVr4zWSqj2a77Z0gqhg1I26mvNkVQtTk2Ars7gM30fuR82lZWBOE https://www.aerofly.com/community/blog/index.php?entry/19-announcement-major-update-and-ec135-helicopter-coming-soon/ Dear Aerofly FS Community, We're happy to announce that a new major update with a new helicopter and a new and improved navigation is coming soon. - Brand new Eurocopter EC135 twin turbo-shaft helicopter will be added to the Aerofly FS base, free for existing customers. - You will now be able to pick cold and dark aircraft configurations at the parking positions in our new implementation of the location menu. You can now also zoom in much closer on the map to select start positions directly on the map. - We completely re-coded the navigation code to better simulate the complex navigation instruments in the airliners and to offer more options including the selection of full departures, arrivals and approaches (SIDs and STARs) . - New implementation of the navigation menu, for faster and more intuitive route creation. Now more powerful than ever, allowing you to create a realistic flight plan using the new departure, arrival and approach procedures with just a few clicks. - Modification to the multi threading code to speed up scenery loading. Program startup and scenery loading during simulation should be a lot faster if you have a CPU with 4 or more cores. - For better startup time all scenery folders have been renamed so we can avoid loading all scenery TSC files during program start. Instead we now scan the scenery folder names for ICAO codes or longitude/latitude coordinates and check them against our global airport database. The TSC files are then only loaded when the aircraft is near that airport or scenery and no longer during each startup. This should not affect user generated sceneries. But if you have a lot of user created scenery then startup time can only improve if you change your user scenery folders to this new naming convention. It would be great if scenery developers could please migrate to this new approach so that Aerofly FS can stay super fast even with a lot of user scenery installed. Edited July 24, 2020 by HiFlyer 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Colbert 596 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 No idea how to fly helicopters, but glad to see some updates to this smooth running sim! Steve Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badl4ndz 69 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Has the update with the EC-135 been deployed yet? I loaded up FS2 the other day looking for the EC-135 and could only see the one helicopter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HiFlyer 758 Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 14 hours ago, Badl4ndz said: Has the update with the EC-135 been deployed yet? I loaded up FS2 the other day looking for the EC-135 and could only see the one helicopter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Badl4ndz 69 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/16/2020 at 7:04 AM, HiFlyer said: Many thanks I opted for the beta and tried several times. I could see the helicopter starting normally but starting in Oculus or Steam VR mode, my Rift S was just showing a black screen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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