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

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Bell 407 for X-Plane 11.05

UI / Graphics:
- Increased Circuit Breakers / HeliSAS manipulators size
- Fixed wrong manipulator for heater switch
- Changed Garmin/NAV/COM/Transponder and ADF manipulators to mouse scroll
compatible ones
- Improved ICS LIT texture and freq switch buttons for radios
- LCD test will correctly lit the gauges for test digits

Sound:
- Fixed circuit breakers sound coming from offset position
- Fixed missing open/close doors sounds

HeliSAS:
- Fixed force trim only working with HeliSAS
- X-Plane center trim commands are now compatible
- Tweaked the SAS gains to avoid in-flight oscillations
- When enabled VRT will pre-select the vertical speed to current one
- Improved the command input with SAS, joystick and SAS will not fight each other
- Changed the way altitude hold works, more precise and faster to hold the altitude
now
- Added custom commands for each HeliSAS button

Clock:
- Changed clock OAT/Volts order to E,F,C as manual
- Fixed clock ET to show Elapsed Time instead of Estimated Time for Arrival
- Clock will now properly display 99:59 when resetting ET timer
- FT will display flight time, will start to count when combustion is detected

Flight model:
- Improved tail rotor sensitivity
- X-Plane stability augmentation is now working again (only if SAS is disabled!)

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Version 1.0:

Features:
- HeliSAS/Autopilot implemented
- Deprecated "rigid cruise" and "arcade mode" functions
- Added blade tie system so each blade can be tied to their positions by clicking
and dragging their tips
- New electrical cart for moving the helicopter on ground

Graphics:
- Added interior normal maps
- Improved gauges bar display visibility
- Removed _lit textures for 5 objects on interior
- Two variants of seat and interior textures that take advantage of PBR
- Cabin lights are now on their real place and using spill lights
- Framerate improve with obj optimized by removing ghost animations
- New 3D propeller for tail rotor
- Fixed rotor blur/shadow issue with clouds
- Improved pedal stop light logics
- Fixed small fliped quad on left side of headphone
- Fixed missing placards
- Added instruments glass

Sound:
- New skin for DreamEngine config window to match XP11 ui
- Added DreamEngine volumetric cabin
- Improved tail rotor loudness
- Main rotor sound might be audible on tail cam
- Speed slap now requires a bit of distance to be heard
- Added air ventilation sound to back outlets

UI:
- SmartLivery now uses X-Plane 11 thumb icons
- Added mouse scroll to manipulators
- Added ability to manually rotate the rotor from outside
- Added GPU external manipulator
- Added Garmin430 power button manipulator
- Added engine inlet/outlet/pitot caps can be manipulated individualy from outside
without need to go in menu for adding them
- Moved external menu from nose tip to side of nose, this was necessary to add the
pitot cap manipulator
- Improved SmartMenu icons visibility and interaction radius
- Improved battery compartment handling, it's not necessary to go on menu to
open/close it anymore
- Improved doors external interaction, now it's possible to choose between go
inside or just open the door

Flight Model:
- Improved airfoil drag curve, now helicopter will cruise at a realistic speed
- Fixed torque on ground with flight rpm, will display correct value now
- Improved landing gear adaptation during plugin start to avoid helicopter "drop"
at ground
- Recalibrated NG to match the correct rpm on various power settings
- Fixed MGT temperature during start and flight should give an more accurate
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- Improved fuel flow
- Fixed wrong idle speed
- Improved rotor slowdown during shutdown, will not keep spinning forever
- Frahm Damper now affects the flight model
- Enhanced lateral skid friction by plugin

Others:
- Clock now displays the Estimated Time from HSI
- Added shutdown command for starter switch
- SmartMenu commands can now be found on command list
- Organized and renamed commands descriptions for better organization
- Fixed the air conditioner switchs logics
- Fixed starter not disengaging during shutdown