LAPD Hooper Heliport (58CA) - Venice Beach KLVB)
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 11:35 pmLAPD Bell 206B-3 "Jet Ranger"
After airfield inflation in MSFS, ORBX has released heliport packages for Paris and Los Angeles. I've watched part of the Paris one, and it fits pretty well as far as a non-native can tell. Now I'm starting to fly in L.A. and I'm enjoying it, preferring LAPD airfields to those of medical institutions. So that's a flight from Los Angeles Police Helicopter Headquarters to famous Venice Beach. Of course, the scenery is rather fictional (and Freeware). The small runway for bush planes and the helipad are probably more of a concession to the play instinct, but why not? For my taste, this kind of "flying" is more pleasant than flying an airliner for hours, watching how a simulated autopilot rocks a simulated airplane to the destination. It's entertaining, the length of the flights is manageable and you can see the landscape you're flying over. In the flight simulation, we have both options. Well, then you arrive at Venice Beach and you find a plane parked on the helipad. That is not how it works. You need a ticket for that, don't you think? So even with the nice AI tool from Just Flight there are sometimes such surprises.
After airfield inflation in MSFS, ORBX has released heliport packages for Paris and Los Angeles. I've watched part of the Paris one, and it fits pretty well as far as a non-native can tell. Now I'm starting to fly in L.A. and I'm enjoying it, preferring LAPD airfields to those of medical institutions. So that's a flight from Los Angeles Police Helicopter Headquarters to famous Venice Beach. Of course, the scenery is rather fictional (and Freeware). The small runway for bush planes and the helipad are probably more of a concession to the play instinct, but why not? For my taste, this kind of "flying" is more pleasant than flying an airliner for hours, watching how a simulated autopilot rocks a simulated airplane to the destination. It's entertaining, the length of the flights is manageable and you can see the landscape you're flying over. In the flight simulation, we have both options. Well, then you arrive at Venice Beach and you find a plane parked on the helipad. That is not how it works. You need a ticket for that, don't you think? So even with the nice AI tool from Just Flight there are sometimes such surprises.