Montana Air uses this helicopter for scenic tours and flightseeing done in Northwest Montana, including Glacier National Park. It is also used to assist search and rescue missions for the local area, as well as private charters.
PLEASE READ THE TEXT BELOW FROM THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS OF THIS AIRCRAFT
I have modified the air file to remove the unrealistic cross couple effect between the lateral cyclic and yaw pedals. (The original Bell model in FS98, although very good, produces a very unrealistic fuselage roll when pedal is applied in either direction.) However, here is a downside to this, you will find that you have a lot more yaw authority in the hover, and it only diminishes at speeds approaching 60kts, but I find this more realistic. So you may end up doing a bit of a Huey shuffle on your first few flights, but you should get the hang of it pretty quickly. The only real problem with the airfile is that if you hold in huge amounts of pedal for a few seconds, the ship will go into an irrecoverable rotation, then break.
lights and beacons function as normal from the keyboard, but to get the actual landing light bulb to light up, use the '/' key. I have done this to allow the ship to fly without the landinng light on, but with all pos strobe lights visable.
Although not a true shut-down, this ship will imitate it, if you throttle right back to ground idle on the engine, the blades will become visible, if you then hit the 'Q' key you get silence, OK, it's not great, but it it gives you a chance to see the ship at rest.
I take no credit for this little idea, Steve Forster has been mucking around with it for a while, and we tried it initially with the '/' key, but it complicated the manufacturing process, and caused some problems.
The transparent blade areas are courtesy of Alexander Remus (CIS: 100636,2067 Internet: 100636.2067@compuserve.com) who has developed a very quick and easy process for producing these, so again, I take no credit for this little gem that has greatly improved the visual appearance of these ships.
The landing lights are courtesy of Siggy Schwarz excellent LLADD package.
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Ian Standfast
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Design Copyright C. Ian Standfast 1998
Montana Air Paint scheme is copywrite 2000 by Fred Choate choate@digisys.net
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