NZFF

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:21 am**

For FS2004 diehards.
Not sure what it is like but looks ok.

On AVSIM file name: hs__bk117_base.zip

Or try this link.

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2013 5:14 pm**

Diehard here... diehard downloader too, your data cap better be intact before you start.
Remember when there was a 100MB limit on files uploaded to the major sites?

Posted: **Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:25 am**

Looks good. Now all we need is a FSX native version.

Posted: **Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:24 pm**

321MB download from AVSIM for Europe package appears a little too rich for their server: Network Failure!
Still, quite a good makeover, I remember this model from way back.
The variations from the Icaro pool are always totally bewildering though... HEMS this, DAC that, Norm Hi-skid the other and all permutations between.
Different panels, too.

blackout wrote:
QUOTE (blackout @ Dec 4 2013,11:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Looks good. Now all we need is a FSX native version.

Nah... that obsolete old sim isn't about to get any decent freeware any more...
But Wait! There's a diehard in the shape of Dino Cattaneo!
He's just released his reworked Goshawk, stunning though it already was in the first incarnation.

Posted: **Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:39 pm**

Hmm dose look a pretty model , least i'm proud to say i still have FS9 installed so i must get it and give the skids a good kicking over

Posted: **Wed Dec 04, 2013 7:54 pm**

Good man...
I am soo tickled... as FSX gets to its use-by date, folk are jumping to P3Dv2, but also:

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I use FSX more often than FS9 , but now planning on using the Project Airbus A380 in FS9 as she is beautiful. And in FSX the VC looses fps.[/quote]and

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I've been away from FlightSim for a while and just reloaded FS9 this last weekend on my 3 monitor Eyefinity system.
[/quote]
More and more, folk are seeing what a hot computer can deliver on the old FS9.5, and dipping a toe.
It's like having a brand new sim!
In more ways than one, too: there is a huge pool of freeware now (quite a bit of ex-payware) that never made it into the sim for lack of time or whatever.
Every day, FS9 delivers something new.

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:18 pm

by emfrat

Hmm...interesting to see that even those noisy eggbeater thingies are coming to realise that three tails are better than one

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:54 pm

by Charl

Ah yes...take them a while to catch up on the engine front though!
Now here's a thing:
I have in the hangar something labelled EC145

but this one soon morphed into the T2, and only 1 tail + fenestron.
This is Progress.

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:16 pm

by Charl

... and here's the BK117!

Last one:

This is actually very nice... way better than the earlier model (which had a Wespac repaint.)
Might be tempted to swing a brush at this one.

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:34 pm

by Ian Warren

Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Dec 8 2013,5:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
... and here's the BK117!

Might be tempted to swing a brush at this one.

Swing high , Swing low .. be looking forward to your artwork , nice thing thanks to Sean , there is no shortage of reference material

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:56 pm

by wildmanfiveone

Now the question is.... will it work in fsx?

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 7:23 pm

by Ian Warren

wildmanfiveone wrote:
QUOTE (wildmanfiveone @ Dec 8 2013,7:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Now the question is.... will it work in fsx?

Took ya a long time James

, I have not tried it yet , sorta busy with other things.

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:13 am

by wildmanfiveone

Just a few problems in fsx. Some missing cockpit guages, rotor shadow texture and some issues with the .cfg (ascending/descending, in flight speed, shut down issues)

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:06 am

by Ian Warren

Good to see you got it installed , the cgf. problem would be the same in FS9 , always a sensitive area with any model but these can be adjusted, the textures and gauges are always the main problem moving across from 9 to X , maybe in the near future that would be addressed .

It sure looks better than any previous 117 just requires a good Kiwi paint on it and you'd be racing , Hey , i noticed this morning another really who the heck would touch model for FS95/98

so you might have people working on it as you type

NZFF

MBB/Kawasaki BK117