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BO105 Policia Nacional
The Spanish Police have in service 16 units of the BO-105.
This repaint is a recognition to your efforts.
I recommend download and install the Bo105 Sound system by Manuel Gonzalez.
Repainted by José López - Valencia - Spain
jslopez@mail.ono.es
Thanks to Ian Standfast for the awesome model.
This is my first repaint, sorry for the fails.
MBB BO105CBS Wiltshire County Police and Ambulance service
Designed by Ian Standfast 106071.2027@compuserve.com October 2000
Designed using FSDS and Aircraft Animator from Abacus.
All my ships are available on Keiths Virtual Helipad - http://SurClaro.com/vhelipad
Construction of three 105 prototypes was initiated in 1964, they incorporated a rotorhead that used only feathering hinges. The first prototype used two 317SHP Allison 250-C18 turboshafts and a conventional rotorhead. The second and third prototypes used the new rotor system with a rigid hub, feathering hinges and flexible fibreglass blades. The first flight was on the 16th Feb 1967.
The original production ship the BO105C used the MBB designed 'droop snoot' rotor blades and was powered by two 400shp Allison 250-C20s. In 1975 the BO105CB became the standard production version, the BO105CBS has a longer fuselage with a 9.8in plug allowing it to carry up to 6 souls or extra freight. Developed specifically for the UK market, the BO105D can be operated in IMC conditions, this permits night ops for oil rig work on the North Sea. Other current versions are the BO105L with 500shp Allisons and an uprated transmission; BO105PAH-1 antitank; BO105M Liaison.
This helicopter is one of the most agile rotory winged aircraft ever designed. I have seen a German Army pilot performing several loops and rolls all very closely linked at low level, he started the display with a diving 180 rotation, leaving the the dive in the opposite direction from the entry, very impressive, and noisy! The only heli I have seen better this performance is the Westland Lynx flown by the Blue Eagles Army Air Corps display Team here in the UK.
The aircraft represented here is G-PASD, the 105DBS/4 of the Wiltshire Police Air Support Unit. The Wiltshire Police ASU was formed in 1987 with one R22Beta, which was written off by a council refuse collection truck backing into it. In 1989, the first Bo105 (G-PASB) was leased from PAS, The aircraft was then replaced with G-PASD. The Wiltshire County ASU is run as a joint Police / Air Ambulance unit, funding is split 75% police and 25% voluntary ambulance service.
G-PASD has now been replaced with an MD900N Explorer
INSTALLATION.
This ship is for FS2000 only, and comes with its own panel and sounds.
After unzipping the file, you should have three folders, one for the helicopter (BO105CBS), one for gauges and one for demos.
Inside the gauges folder is a file that you need for the second set of engine instruments on the panel. Take this file called 206b2.gau, and drop it into the gauges directory in FS2000 (these gauges are not designed by me, they are just a copy of the original MS bell engine instruments). Now take the helicopter folder, and drop it into the aircraft directory of FS2000.
The third folder contains some demo flights, if you don't want these just dump them, if you do, copy them into the pilots directory in FS2000. The flight videos have all been done at Meigs field. When in FS2000 with the Bo105 in the simulation, just select the view you want the video to run in, ie interior, exterior or tower, then run the a vid from the menu.
The panel for the 105 has designed using several gauges from the FS2000 professional edition. Obviously, if you do not have this version of FS2000, you will not see all of the gauges as intended, for this reason I have included an alternative panel for use with the standard FS2000 edition. To use this basic version of the panel, do the following. After installing the 105 folder in the FS2000 aircraft directory, take the panel.cfg supplied with this aircraft from the folder called FSbasic, and drop it into the 105 panel folder, you will be asked if you wish to replace the existing panel cfg, say yes. You will not need to do this if you have the FS2000 Professional edition.
Whilst working on the air file I had, as usual, help from Cal Booth, who like many, flies with the joystick sensitivities half way up the scales in the settings window. I have tried to get the best performance in terms of response and stability at these settings with the aircraft realism turned up all the way. Personally I prefer to fly this ship with the sensitivities for the cyclic and yaw pedals turned all the way up, throttle sensitivity is set low to midway. I also set the null zones to zero on all controls except the ailerons, where six notches from the left hand side of the scale seems to give a good roll stability in forward flight without causing handling problems in the hover. If you wish to calm the aircraft down a little, then under the aircraft realism settings, set all the sliders to their maximum (rightside) then slide the General setting at the bottom of the tables back to the left about 5-6 notches.
I have also attempted to get a more stable platform during forward flight, I have based the forward flight modelling on an 80% torque setting, this gives a forward speed in the region of 140-150kts, and should result in the nose being pretty stable and level, you might need to trim out a slight rise or fall, but I find this much better than holding in handfuls of forward stick just to keep the nose from coming up. I have also tweaked the yaw settings a little as I was running out of right boot on those collective-lever-on-the-floor approaches.
Thanks to Tim and Sam Young of Jacksonville Florida, for the original recordings of the BO105 operated by Baptist Medical Centre Life flight.
