X-Plane 12 Cowansim Bell 206 - Two Rangers And An Aircraft Carrier 

The Bell 206 has a very high inertia rotor system when doing autos, and it auto rotates like an airplane you've got a whole bunch of glide time in that puppy arguably one of the best auto rotating helicopters in real world. ( R-44, Bell 206L3, Bell 204, 205 / UH-1H )

I run my own VA in XP11, GA aircraft from various Orbx and Boundless airfields, IXEG charter flights in the 733, some XP12 stuff too. Looking for a good chopper but too much choice. Would like some pax and/or cargo capacity, cross country speed, but versatile mission sounds fun, air sea rescue, mountain rescue etc. complexity not a prob, I fly DCS fighters and Blackshark with my eyes closed. The Cowan stuff looks good, the Bell 412 looks very versatile, the 222 looks like a good pax carrier for distances, but not much else. The 202 I think looks great and lots of missions but not so good before high alt rescue then there is the Alloutte (spelling) II or III, which looks great too, but not sure how it is for distance flights…..spoiled for choice, I also want something up to date, not a 10 year old model with bugs…and works in 11 and 12. Do you have any advice based on my crazy ideas!! Cheers

Cowan's already stated that the initial 12 versions are to just "work", but that they will need flight model updates first.

Whoa, BK need to check out that H125! Thanks for all these helicopter videos, BK want to buy them all now!

Nice comparison. I really like the new scenery. Amusing that the CV is actually asking to call the ball. Can you see the IFLOLS, I haven't checked it yet? Carrier ops with my RIO is one of the few things I miss from DCS. I read after the last beta update you need to clear your shadercache... Tomcat, carrier, clearing the shaders after an update... XP12 turns into DCS more and more (I kid). Oculus / META actually were kind enough to send me a new - well, refurbed - cable for my Rift CV1. Turns out, it probably wasn't the cable, after all... my Rift remains dark. Very sad, the prospect of buying new VR glasses is rather "oof" right now. *sad pilot noises*

I have zero experience in XP11, and all I have in 12 atm is the Lama ( other than the defaults ) - but the DCS helis ( bar the Gazelle ) also don't like descending & slowing at the same time, so I haven't noticed anything particularily different. Generally I slow down in a circle around the landing point anyway rather than aiming straight at it, so it's hard to compare. Well what's different in XP12 vs DCS ( particularily in the Lama ) is it plummeting downwards when it's nearly in a hover... that is a very wierd region to dip in and out of, especially the pedal movement, and it doesn't exactly feel like physics. Doing a "hover" alongside - slide across move onto a ship ( the UK RN don't aim helicopters at decks, they aim at the sea beside the ship! ) takes a little getting used to, you have hover reactions but you're quite possibly past ETL still depending on the ship & the bird...

Regarding the frame rates, it seems its an issue with Cowan's H125 itself. I recalled seeing a few discussions on the X-Plane forums on this. I have both the Lama and H125 on XP12. With the Lama, I always get around 40+ FPS, but with the H125, it drops down to 25-30. I am running a GTX 1660TI with the graphic generally on "medium" settings on a single 1080P monitor. Lets wait and see the next update on Cowan's H125.

Good job 👏

I'm curious why you don't fly in VR. In my opinion VR is especially awesome for Heli simming. I can never go back to 2D flying.

Cowan provides 2K versions for both 206 and H125 (and probably others but I didn't check). These should improve FPS. Did you use them ?

have you try the vivartia Sea King? I fly it daily on vatsim mayby we can do a formation flight ?

I must have 1000 hours in the dodosim ❤ FSX 🤣

Aricraft carrier :)