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Maryland State Police SA365N Dauphin/HH-65A DOLPHIN version 3
by Ian Standfast December 1989
Repaint by Gaylen Cates May 2000
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Thanks for downloading this file, here is one of the Dauphin files updated to include some small texture changes, the clear rotor display, and some lights.
Thanks to John Hamer and Nick Canning for their input during the development of the original flight dynamics and supplying me with the reference material for the Virgin G-HEMS.
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SPECs
these are pretty general as there are several variations
of this aircraft.
Manufacturer: Aerospatiale
Type: SA 365N Dauphin 2
First flight: Jan 24th 1975
Engines: 2x 710shp Turbomeca Arriel 1C Turboshafts
or 2x 680 shp LTS 101-750A-1 Textron Lycoming Turboshafts
Rotor diameter: 39ft
Length Rotor turning: 44ft
Height: 13ft 2inch
Gross weight: 8,488lbs
Max speed: 176mph - 283km/h at sea level
(I have set the overspeed for this figure)
Range: Max range 548miles - 882kms
Capacity: various arrangements of crew and
passengers up to 14 people in all (I think).
INSTALLATION, this ship is for FS98 only.
This aircraft comes already configured for FS98. Unzip the file and place the aircraft folder in the aircraft directory of FS98.
It utilises the standard fs98 bell panel and sounds which are already configured within the file and should work as long as you have not renamed the original bell 206 in FS.
The panel and sounds for this helicopter are available from Keiths panel and sounds page.
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. For the best handling, I suggest you turn all your control sensitivities to their full value, and reduce the null zones to their minumum. Then adjust the realism setting to your prefered value.
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 landing lights on, but with all position and strobe lights visible.
'O' strobe on/off
'L' position and cabin lights on/off
'ctrl+L' visible light beams on the ground on/off
'/' light bulbs on/off
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.
To get the blades to show you need to do the following
snap fuel flow fully closed: press 'ctrl' and 'F1' together (blades visible)
snap fuel flow fully open: press 'ctrl' and 'F4' together (blades not visible)
or
gradually increase fuel flow: press and hold 'ctrl' and 'F3' (blades visible)
gradually decrease fuel flow: press and hold 'ctrl' and 'F2' (blades not visible)
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.
All my ships are available on Keiths Virtual Helipad)
http://members.aol.com/keitht777/helipad.html
If you have any comments about any of my aircraft,
Please E-mail me at
106071,2027
or 106071.2027@compuserve.com
Ian Standfast
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Repaint by
Gaylen Cates
pcomput@swbell.net
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Copyright C. Ian Standfast 1998
Copyright C. Gaylen Cates 2000
Legal stuff:
THIS IS FREEWARE.
THIS AIRCRAFT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE AUTHOR, AND CANNOT BE
RE-SOLD OR PACKAGED WITH ANY PRODUCT FOR SALE, WITHOUT THE
EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. THIS TEXT FILE MUST ALWAYS BE TRANSPORTED WITH THE AIRCRAFT IF IT IS RE-ZIPPED AND UPLOADED TO OTHER FORUMS/WEB SITES.
THE AUTHOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY LIABILITIES THAT YOU MIGHT
INCUR AS A RESULT OF USING THIS PRODUCT. YOU ASSUME THE RISK
OF USE.
