Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:57 pmWith all the excitement around the great RNZAF helicopter addons, I'm suprised no one has mentioned the mighty Sioux.
The NZDF started buying Sioux helicopters back in 1965 and even then they were an older design - the prototype flying twenty years earlier in 1945. 3 Squadron amazingly still have five immaculate examples of these aircraft in service and are used for pilot conversion training before they move on to Iroquois. A Sioux for FS9 is available on flightsim.com by Jean-Marie Mermaz. You need to download both BELL47SK.ZIP - an FS2002 aircraft - and the update bell4704.zip - which changes everything.
I like this aircraft even though my maintaining a hover in any FS helicopter in an area smaller than a town is an achievement. There are animations galore. Move the cyclic and collective controls in any combination and watch how their interaction affects the movement of the actuators and mechinism attached to the main rotors.
There are no RNZAF repaints at the moment - the picture is a rough as guts five minute job I did a while ago, and the 2D panel shows a view of the pilots wooly jersey and courdoroy trousers which doesn't exactly match a flightsuit. The model has a VC as well but with hardly any instruments - I assume this is close to the real thing, no cross country radio navigation here, I still think it's a funky little helicopter and the model is one of my FS favourites.
The NZDF started buying Sioux helicopters back in 1965 and even then they were an older design - the prototype flying twenty years earlier in 1945. 3 Squadron amazingly still have five immaculate examples of these aircraft in service and are used for pilot conversion training before they move on to Iroquois. A Sioux for FS9 is available on flightsim.com by Jean-Marie Mermaz. You need to download both BELL47SK.ZIP - an FS2002 aircraft - and the update bell4704.zip - which changes everything.
I like this aircraft even though my maintaining a hover in any FS helicopter in an area smaller than a town is an achievement. There are animations galore. Move the cyclic and collective controls in any combination and watch how their interaction affects the movement of the actuators and mechinism attached to the main rotors.
There are no RNZAF repaints at the moment - the picture is a rough as guts five minute job I did a while ago, and the 2D panel shows a view of the pilots wooly jersey and courdoroy trousers which doesn't exactly match a flightsuit. The model has a VC as well but with hardly any instruments - I assume this is close to the real thing, no cross country radio navigation here, I still think it's a funky little helicopter and the model is one of my FS favourites.
