X-Plane Helicopter is a new version of X-Plane that lets you realistically fly Helicopters!
You get some very interesting birds to fly, including:
The Robinson R-22: The lightweight, efficient trainer.
The Bell-206: The turbine-powered mainstay of the helicopter fleet.
The BlackHawk: The massive military cargo and troop mover.
The Sea King: The huge land/sea rescue helicopter.
These fascinating and varied machines are modeled very realistically, so the flight you get on the iPhone is actually almost as realistic as the full FAA-Certified flight-model used in X-Plane for desktop... You get almost all the flight-model realism of this certified sim: On your phone.
As well, the flight-area is the Grand Canyon, giving you amazing views as you fly your helos across (and into!) the various canyons and valleys, giving the most visually-stunning simulation we have yet released, with the most challenging and realistic flight-models we have produced for iPhone so far.
Now, a quick lesson: The COLLECTIVE control is on the LEFT of the iPhone screen... drag it DOWN GENTLY to INCREASE the pitch of the main rotor, thus causing the helo to lift. As you drag this collective down, you will notice that the throttle AUTOMATICALLY increases on the right side of the screen. This is because the throttle governor automatically increases the engine power to maintain the desired rotor RPM as you increase the load on the rotor by increasing the rotor pitch. This is how the real helicopters work, and how we simulate them on the iPhone.
If you are ready for the best scenery and most fascinating and challenging flight model available on the iPhone, then you are ready for X-Plane-Helicopter.
New in this version MULTIPLE FLYING REGIONS! These were the number-one requests from customers: More planes and more scenery, and now we have them!
X-Plane-9 and X-Plane Airliner have BOTH gotten more PLANES added (as free-update 9.05) and now we are adding more FLYING AREAS AS WELL for this free-update 9.06.
In the Settings menu, you can select varied flying regions such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Southern California, the Grand Canyon, Catalina Island, and Hawaii
in the various X-Plane flavors! (Regular, Airline, Helicopter). We are now OVER a total of ONE THOUSAND airports, NAVAIDS,
airplanes, and maps across the 3 flavors of X-Plane, distributed SO FAR as a total of 3 new products and 10 free updates for a total of under $19.99.
Better scenery! We have tuned the textures and graphics technology as well! The scenery should look quite a bit more fascinating and varied and real in all apps!
So now we have not only MANY DIFFERENT flying areas, but each one looks much better and more realistic as well... and of course more is still to come!
Better Frame-Rate! The frame-rate for 9.06 is a decent bit better than it was for 9.05 thanks to careful tuning of the scenery.
As we move into the SIXTH free update for X-Plane, and SECOND free update for X-Plane Airliner and Helicopter, we are getting into a power and variety
of flight simulator that is starting to rival DESKTOP products... for $9.99 or less on your IPHONE.
This is simply stunning technology and power... more than I could have imagined possible, and, of course, we are not done yet! MORE free updates and products
are to come as we continue to improve our technology to use every last bit of iPhone performance.
Considerably better flight model!
We have also improved the accuracy of the drag-modeling of the fuselage, making the cruise, deceleration, and glide performance much more accurate.
All-new EFIS, as recommended by an airline pilot that uses X-Plane airliner for iPhone to practice for his 6-month checks in the multi-million dollar big sims!
This new EFIS is applied to ALL X-Plane apps!
X-Plane for iPhone is now moving into the same territory as the desktop: Pilots are now using it for keeping up their skills to fly more safely in the real thing.
This is especially funny because airline pilots take flight-checks every 6 months in 10-million dollar full-motion flight-simulators...
and are now starting to sit in the lobby of the flight-training buildings where these sims are housed practicing on their IPHONE to be more brushed-up for the check!
Har!
The HELICOPTER version now has new sounds, as well, and more accurate auto-rotation performance thanks to an improved engine governor.
We now have a PAUSE button, because people asked for it.
As we move forwards, we will come out with MORE flavors of X-Plane (priced at $9.99 so anyone can afford them) and release even MORE free upgrades
as we continue to improve our technology... and what is REALLY amazing is that as we develop new technology for ONE simulator (such as the new
EFIS system recommended by a real airline pilot for Airliner, or the new thrust and flight-control systems we are working on for another product) we will distribute
this technology to ALL the flavors of X-Plane as free updates (as we are doing for 9.06 for ALL flavors of X-Plane today) so that each version of X-Plane
benefits from the new technology of the others. At the end of the day, we have the most powerful line of products for iPhone, I am quite sure.
