This entirely fictional and outlandish scenery is intended to be used as a helicopter training ground and practice area of sorts for aspiring and seasoned MSFS helicopter pilots alike. Located on the picturesque but unpopulated coastline of Point Conception CA, KHLI features many custom Stoopid scenery objects aimed at developing or enhancing skills for hovering and maneuvering in place or at low speed, executing precision landings - including within confined areas and over obstacles - maintaining consistent altitude while hover-taxiing and managing transitional lift, practicing "nose-around" maneuvers orbiting sideways around objects and also practicing autorotations from altitude using a large bullseye conveniently painted in the middle of an ample runway area as a landing target. There are also numerous other challenging objects and scenes allowing free-form exploration encouraging general rotary-winged hooliganism. It also makes a great heliport to use for familiarization flights to "feel out" any new helicopters added to your growing stable.
Please note that in addition to the custom objects included, this scenery also uses the following free libraries which are available from either the In-Game Marketplace or from flightsim.to. You can of course use the scenery without them but you will be missing a very significant amount of eye candy and objects:
totof helicopter library V2
https://flightsim.to/file/17983/totof-helicopter-library-v1
Dave's 3D People Library:
https://flightsim.to/file/5452/dave-s-3d-people-library
Windy Things:
https://flightsim.to/file/14024/windy-things
Vessels: Core library from Seafront Simulations
(Free content available within the in-game Marketplace)
There are 3 basic starting locations intended for beginner (1), intermediate (2) and "pro" (3) helicopter skill levels. There is a fake runway with starting locations at the Beginner and Intermediate courses. This is to accommodate helicopters and other aircraft which are not defined as type "Rotary" in MSFS such as the FlyInside Bell 47 and HPG H145 (as of this writing). Selecting the runway starts will put you on the start position for the desired course with the aircraft ready for flight.
If you prefer to start from cold & dark, then selecting Parking spots 1, 2 or 3 will put you in the start positions for Beginner, Intermediate or Pro (respectively) with engines off. Finally, selecting Helipad 1, 2 or 3 (if available depending on aircraft type) will start you at either of the 3 positions with engines running and ready for flight. In addition to the practice courses, some exploring will also reveal a few objects scattered around that are fun to hover around or land on. Most objects except the large cranes should be landable.
Although I normally try to avoid doing so, I'm releasing this as a Beta 0.9 version for now simply because I've been working on it for so long, if I don't put it out now I'm afraid it will languish and fester on my hard drive for many more months to come. Instead, I'll welcome any feedback, suggestions within reason, constructive criticism and/or dirty limericks that may help in making this more useful and fun for the MSFS heli community.
So, Enjoy!
-Stoopy
Installation:
As with other typical mods - unzip and copy the "stoopy-airport-khli-heli-playground" folder to your community folder, or if you are using the Addon Linker, copy to your destination of choice and enable the link using Addon Linker.
Quasilegal stuff:
Although there is nothing here that can harm your computer system or MSFS installation, no warranty is expressed or implied by use of these files, use at your own risk just like everything else you download from the internet.
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v1rota7e
For some reason I have another "stoopy-airport-khli-heli-playground" inside the "stoopy-airport-khli-heli-playground" So I have, Contentinfo, MaterialLibs, Scenery, stoopy-airport-khli-heli-playground, layout and manifest.
Which one do I install?
Regards BJ from Oz
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EagleClaw6920
the night lights in the big ship cruise are amazing, hopefully you can add lightning to the rest of the ships as well, maybe some big light reflectors pointing towards the the middle of the training facilty would be nice for night training as well, im sure some updates are coming, fantastic job nevertheless, THANK YOU!
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