This is my first public entrance into model conversions. Many know a ways back Hovercontrol shutdown and we lost a lot of great rotary wing aircraft and resources in the process. Last week I unearthed a hard drive of mine that had a number of aircraft on it, but importantly were Jordan Moore's Bell 212 and Bell 412 versions along with various components that had been modeled for other aircraft back in early FSX I had downloaded. Well for those that don't know Jordan in his rotary wing guru-ness released his 212 and 412 as open source and people began modifying it and uploading different versions. I have those versions and with some self taught lessons in MCX over the last few months I started in on these. I started reviving these helos for P3D v4+. As P3D itself lacks any freeware Huey Variant really. The Cera Sim 212 and 412 are really the only options. ( own the Cera 212 and it's a great aircraft. But, back on topic, those are basic versions. I wanted fire fighting versions. I've been in contact with a few past modelers of the open source birds, one of them has a bambi bucket version I am also converting. But our consensus was since these were open source we thought it would be a great project to revive. As of this current moment I have both successfully integrated into P3D v4.5. However, bugs exist and some I'm sure are outside of my expertise and some I've managed to fix. But I'm probably at the limit of MCX's ability. I've been in brief contact with a few others about this project and I thought it was time to make the project more public to hopefully get these great helos working as close as possible as they were in FSX.
Some photos below of the 412 as a WIP in P3D v4.5
212 and 412 in SDFD liveries
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