Eurocopter EC120B Colbri for FS2000
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Well, welcome to my second and most ambitious attempt at aircraft design which has used up countless hours but I feel has been worth the effort.
Specifications
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Length: 11.52m (37.79ft) Rotor tip to tail
Width: 2.07m (6.79ft)
Height: 3.08m (10.10ft)
Rotor Diameter: 10.00m (32.81ft)
Empty weight: 960kg (2116lb)
Max T/O weight: 1715kg (3780lb)
Power Plant: 1 Turbomeca Arrius 2F turbine engine
T/O power: 376kW (504shp)
VNE: 278kph (150kts)
Fast cruise: 237kph (128kts)
Economical cruise: 201kph (109kts)
rate of climb: 7.36m/sec (1450 ft/min)
Max range: 771km (416nm)
I have made an effort to make this aircraft as visually accurate as I could with the talent available to me. As I do not have the ability of Ian Standfast to do this mainly in my texturing, this has resulted in a poly count of over 17500 which means those using older machines may struggle on frame rates (my machine is an athlon 800 with128meg memory and matrox g400 max and has no problem).
This has been my first attempt at panel design and any serious messing with .AIR files so any comments/critical analysis on either would be greatly appreciated.
Also this file will be entered in the SurClaro Developers competition in June and I would ask that you pay a visit to the voting page at http://www.SurClaro/cgi/kds?$=main/vote-dev.htm for this file EC120.zip if you feel it deserves some credit. Thankyou.
Installation
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Unzip EC120 B Colbri.zip into your FS2000/Aircraft directory and Gauges.zip into your FS2000/Gauges directory
Credits
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Many thanks to the numerous people continue to inspire in the field of helicopter modelling
such as Ian Standfast and Dwight Booth, may you continue to inspire us into our own attempts. Also thanks to Abacus for the fantastic Design Studio Pro and Konstantin Kukushkin for Aircraft animator.
Also special thanks must go to Manuel Gonzalez for the excellent sound system and Brian Kostick for the multi function radio gauge which has been repainted and included in this package. If I have forgotten any other specific thanks I apologise.
Special thanks to Keiths Virtual Helipad for the best site on the Web for providing a place available for rotorheads to meet, share ideas and find the best heli files.
Copyright and Distribution
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This aircraft is released as Freeware. Copyright (C) Rob Beard. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this archive subject to the following conditions,
- The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed or modified is prohibited.
- The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another archive without the prior permission of the author is prohibited. This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a package containing a panel or aircraft sounds without first obtaining the authors' permission.
- No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the cost of its distribution. If a fee is charged it must be made clear to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to cover the distributor's costs of providing the archive.
- The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected.
- Please do not publish repaints or reworked versions of the authors work without first gaining authors permission.
Copyright (c) Rob Beard 2001
rob.beard@ntlworld.com
