The DreamFoil Creations Bell 407 is one of the very few helicopters compatible with X-Plane 11 and Fred has been hard at work making it compatible with X-Plane's latest versions, as well as VR (yep, VR, folks).
Here is the updated changelog:
Bell 407 for X-Plane 11.20 VR
Version 1.02
VR (Still testing)
- Added hotspots for all seats
- Added cyclic and collective manipulators
- Added external manipulators for Caps, Battery Compartment, GPU, Doors and Rotor ties
- Improved some manipulators axis to give an intuitive and natural movement
- Changed knob manipulators to made possible to spin them with touch controllers
****** SmartMenu still not working on VR! It's not possible to draw or interact with plugins on VR at moment, we need to wait for further VR updates from Laminar ******
Graphics
- Improved basket objects so they work correctly with fog
- Fixed missing shadow for Ext_5 object
- Airspeed gauge now can go above 140kts (max 165kts)
- Climb going past 4000ft is also fixed
- Added missing nav light ball mesh on right side
- Removed vent windows prefill, it was causing artifacts
Engine:
- Refined turbine TRQ, MGT and NG values
- FADEC now modulate the fuel in order to keep MGT below max during startup
Flight model:
- New airfoils for Main and Tail Rotor
- Improved vertical fin incidence angle & airfoil
- Improved horizontal stabilizer incidence angle & airfoil, this results in a higher fwd cyclic requirement on cruise like real helicopter
- Fixed MR lateral cant angle
- MR Flap hinge is now set to correct position acordingly to maintenance manual
- Plugin tweak for below ETL taxing, helicopter should maintain the altitude at very low airspeeds
- Plugin driven TFE (Transverse Flow Effect)
- Improved TR min/max pitches for more realistic pedal hover and flight conditions
- Corrected MR blade chord size incorrectly set based on feet unit
- Added MR blade twist
- Repositioned all flight elements arms with precision acordingly to maintenance manual
- Adjusted aft and fwd CG limits
SmartMenu:
- Added Flight-Model enhancements (ETL, TFE and Landing Gear friction)
- Added failures enhancements now it's possible to disable them (Hotstart, Transmission overtorque, Tail rotor contact with tail boom)
- Added option to remove doors
- Removed interaction distance limit
- Improved multi-display handling, might fix the non clickable menu when running X-Plane on 2nd monitor
HeliSAS:
- Controls now transition from normal to stabilized, no more abrupt changes when turning on/off
* SAS light will flash during transition to warn pilot, during this time avoid enabling any SAS feature like heading hold or vertical speed hold
* Transition time is available on global.cfg file, default = 5 seconds
- Improved PID values from vertical speed hold
- Increased altitude hold authority
- HeliSAS now disables if a hydraulic failure is identified
- Frahm damper dynamics are now disabled for hydraulic failure
Others:
- Garmin power is now automatically set to ON during aircraft load with engines running
- Fixed ON/OFF commands acting as a toggle
Sound:
- Increased gain and added blade slap volume slider back
DreamFoil is now starting to work on the S300 (which is very close to be finished) and then, the much-awaited AS350.
Where to get the DreamFoil Creations Bell 407 update
If you have already purchased the 407 in the past, you should have it available in your X-Plane.org account. If not, go buy it right away! You won't regret it!
