HPG H145 Helicopter - Developer Build #300 Now Available For Download

We're happy to announce that Build 300 (0.95) is now available.This is the first stable version of both the H145 Base Pack and Action Pack variants.

We have been hard at work on the Action Pack for the past 3 months, launching both the HEMS and Firefighter variants with their 3d crew. We are working on the Offshore and Cargo variants and will be launching them soon with more activities.

The Action Pack has been upgraded with many bugfixes, manual hoisting control, built-in road accident rescue missions, and real-world firefighting missions, support for third party objects

The Base Pack has also received substantial upgrades including new sounds, new flight dynamics, helmet mounted display, engine fires & fire extinguishing system, custom pilot and passenger models, smoother performance, avionics upgrades, a virtual tailboom camera, new visual effects, many bugfixes and much more.

Condensed changelog:


Base Pack Updates:
- Flight Model: Big changes to inertia and feeling
- Flight Model: Vortex Ring State is back (avoid descent exceeding 500fpm when relative wind is less than 25kt). Autopilot has VRS protection.
- Add passengers and custom pilots for all variants (Asobo copilot option available)
- Sound: Engine bladeslap, blade stall and Flight/Idle transition, cargo doors, switches, prime pumps
- Some elements in the cockpit will now shake based on rotor condition
- Engine startup smoke and fire VFX
- Engine fire indications fire extinguishing system is implemented
- Failures app, Sound Mixer app, H:Event Test app, new Equipment & Crew pages
- Pilot heads now based on camera position - pilot & copilot are headless
- Installed Helmet Mounted Display
- Installed Tail Boom camera
- Avionics: TDSSim and pms50 GTN750 are now swappable from the tablet Options page
- Avionics: Various performance improvements
- Avionics: Airspeed, Vertical Speed and Heading rose will now update at a higher rate
- Add passengers and custom pilots for all variants (Asobo copilot option available)
- Chin window plates are now selectable on some variants
- Safety patches are now available for all variants (for aircraft storage)
- Dual landing light is available for all variants
- Various cosmetic and functional bugfixes throughout the aircraft such as fixes to MFD visuals and aircraft textures


Action Pack Updates:
- Launch HEMS variant with new medical interior
- Launch Firefighter variant with functional bambi bucket and utility interior
- Launch H145 Mission System, a framework for building interactive scenarios for H145
- Launch Scenario Editor, a graphical tool for building interactive scenarios for H145
- Add manual hoist control & bindings, ability to set the hoist explicitly outside of a mission
- Add Nearby Road Accident missions at hospitals and launchable from the library
- Add Firefighting missions based on real world wildfires & add a data query Landfill mission
- Third party objects are now supported in the H145 Mission System

All downloads available at the respective H145 Download Center.