These were undesirable, but it was something you could live with if you wanted to have a 500 in X-plane. There were weird shapes around the skids, transparent fuselage parts from the cockpit, and a mysterious floating airfoil floating above the aircraft. Assuming you got through all of that some weird artifacts still remained. Tweaks in plane-maker to the model to make things transparent, the gizmo plug-in and hard to find unsupported replacement scripts were all needed just to see through the cockpit glass, and to get the blades to turn. The X-plane 10 conversion of this model took a lot of effort to get working I think because of the switch to 64bit or some other computer geek gibberish that I don’t understand. I rediscovered BrettS’ 500 after a computer upgrade, and a by chance purchase of the disk version X-plane 10 regional I found on sale at a local office supply store. The model was amazing, it really was! It was the most complex model I had ever seen for a flight simulator, but that came at a cost of performance (more on that later). I found out about this model sometime later which prompted me to take another look at X-plane, specifically so that I could try it. The model we are going to talk about today hit the scene in X-plane quite a few years ago, somewhere around 2006. There have been a few 500’s for flight simulator over the years. It wasn’t the first turbine I flew, but it was the first turbine I got comfortable with, and logged PIC time in. The 500 is also significant to me because it was the first turbine powered helicopter, I got checked out in. Several of the local police and Sheriff’s Departments operated 500’s where I grew up, so they were a constant presence overhead. Blue Thunder, Airwolf, the A-Team and other TV shows all featured 500’s (most of the time it was the same one, N58248!). As a kid, the 500 and its variants were just as popular on American TV and movies as the Jetranger. The 500 holds a special place for me for many reasons. Hughes gave the world the 500D in 1976, and we have been in love ever since.
It is also known as the Hughes 500, McDonnell Douglas 500, and MD 500, depending on who owned the type certificate when that particular serial number was produced.īut most people in the industry refer to it and its variants as simply the 500. The Hughes 369, It has gone by a few names since it emerged from the OH-6.
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