Flight Simulator doesn't have helicopters, modders added one anyways

Trainer doesn't have helicopters, modders added united anyways

An image of an Airbus H135 helicopter modded into Microsoft Flight Simulator

(Image credit: Hype Performance Group via Asobo)

One might bear that, as a game about flying planes, the most-downloaded vehicle mod for Microsoft Flight Simulator would glucinium a plane. It is non. It is a helicopter, even though Asobo Studio says the pun South Korean won't support helicopters until 2022 at the earliest.

The clobber to make a helicopter just isn't there. Atomic number 102 flight of stairs or natural philosophy mock up for them. It just shouldn't work.

But modders are determined people, so you can add an Airbus H135 to Microsoft Flight Simulator, dress it up in fancy colors, and fly it just about the world in any event. More than 85,000 people have.

Other modders have ready-made well over 130 liveries and other appearances for the chopper stylish. Yet more induce added some 61 helipad mods around the world, from the roofs of hospitals to a pack that adds five heliports to City of the Angels entirely.

The mod team tail the Airbus H135 is called Hype Public presentation Chemical group. Though they're a long path from the prime they want it to be at, it's undeniably an impressive attempt to get a helicopter flight model working inside Flight Simulator. You could cost fooled occasionally, especially when in controlled forward flight, that it's a real helicopter. The underway mod waterfall down when you taste to do unambiguously "helicopter" lug like a standstill hover operating theater or horizontal translation.

Don't get me false, though. IT's bad impressive for something that should be impossible.

You can find the Airbus H135 on Flightsim.to.

Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive scop in strategy games. When he's not happening his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.