Version 1.02 - Bell 407 for X-Plane 11.20 VR (March 13th 2018)





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