As Roman Design says, “Welcome to helicopter and seaplane heaven!”.
The developer is bringing Vancouver Island to Microsoft Flight Simulator in bigger detail, which “offers a unique combination of breathtaking remote landscapes and urban photogrammetry areas in a relatively compact area”.
Being a “compact area” doesn’t mean there’s not a lot to do, and Roman Design provides us with a nice list of possible activities:
- Simulate patient transfers between 4 hand-modelled hospitals with medical heliports, perform medevac flights from a cruise ship, or locate and rescue injured victims from 3 car accident scenes along remote roads.
- Fly Coast Guard, government, and private flights between 6 heliports, including the Coast Guard and Port facilities, a working lighthouse at the Race Rocks Ecological Reserve, and a Coast Guard ship you can land on.
- Fly VIP passengers or imagine yourself piloting your helicopter from your yacht to a sprawling mansion with a helipad, built on the top of the hill overlooking a majestic lake.
Roman Design also adds that “all locations are hand-modeled in intricate detail, including key buildings textured with custom-made PBR materials in up to 4K resolution, parallax interiors, lighting and animation elements, ground signs and textures, night lighting, and hundreds of objects placed throughout the scenery.”
Helipads, helipads everywhere
Ok perhaps not everywhere, but you understand what I mean. The scenery brings us 13 landing points, between hospitals, heliports, and helipads, which Roman Design listed for us:
Hospitals
- CBK8 – Royal Jubilee Hospital Heliport
- CBW7 – Victoria General Hospital Heliport
- CAT6 – Campbell River Hospital Heliport
- CVB8 – Comox Valley Hospital Heliport
Heliports and helipads
- CBR7 – Tofino Lifeboat Station Heliport
- CBZ7 – Victoria Harbour Shoal Point Heliport (Coast Guard)
- CBF7 – Victoria Harbour Camel Point Heliport (HeliJet operations)
- CDH5 – Nanaimo Harbour Heliport (HeliJet operations)
- CR03 – Race Rocks Lighthouse Heliport
- CR05 – Coast Guard Ship Helipad
Private helipads
- CR01 – Willis Point Mansion (NW of Victoria)
- CR02 – Cruise Ship Helipad
- CR04 – Yacht Helipad
Not only that, we also have a few car accident scenes, which can be used to simulate medical evacuation missions:
- Follow the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy1) North from Victoria to Mill Bay
- Follow the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy1) from Duncan to Nanaimo
- Follow the local road from Tofino to Ucluelet
Official features list
- Custom PBR materials with up to 4K resolution
- 4 Hospitals
- 6 Heliports and multiple Helipads
- 3 Private Helipads
- 4 Water Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
- 3 car accident scenes
- Animated lighthouse with rotating beacon and light beams
- Animated Ambulance flashing lights
- Parallax windows on all buildings with reflective glass and night lighting, based on multiple custom office, residential, and hospital 3D room interior renderings
- Signs with emulated fluorescent night backlighting, 3D-modelled letter-shaped signs, and other custom signage throughout the pack
- Custom night lighting throughout the scenery
- Hundreds of objects placed throughout the scenery to create an immersive experience
- Animated flags that respond to wind direction
Roman Design indicated that it should be available on the Microsoft Marketplace soon™.
