Important - Required Library!
BC Helicopters requires the following libraries be installed for proper display of the addon!
Best known from the Pilot Yellow YouTube channel, BC Helicopters is a flight school in British Columbia, Canada. BCH was also the first operator of and is now a dealer for Cabri helicopters in Canada.
This scenery has been designed from the ground up, in detail from various video and aerial sources. It has also been made in collaboration with HCG, who has released a freeware Guimbal Cabri G2 alongside this scenery!
BC Helicopters is spawnable using its fictional ICAO code: BCH1. Parking spawns have been set for both helipads, as well as fuel. Runway starts have been positioned on pad 1 & 2, offering you the ability to spawn with your engine running. However, because of these spawns, there are a few minor side-effects. Please see NOTAMS below for more info!
Released in collaboration with HCG for his Guimbal Gabri G2!
https://flightsim.to/file/36054/hcg-cabri-g2
Features
- 15cm/px aerial imagery.
AI enhanced, hand-corrected and colored to match the surrounding terrain. - Custom buildings and various clutter models.
Up to 8k resolution PBR materials. - Hand-placed vegetation.
Weeds, Shrubs/Bushes, Shrub Crops, Grapevines, & 3D Trees! - Helipad Spawns
Features cold & dark parking and runway spawns on both helipads, as well as a working fuel spot. Notice: Runway spawns may not spawn you accurately on the pad - this is aircraft dependent and out of my control.
Installation
The included "esd-airport-bc-helicopters" folder should be placed into your MSFS "Packages\Community" folder. The scenery will load the next time you start Microsoft Flight Simulator.
NOTAMS
Please be advised that you may experience the following:
- After World Update: Canada, BCH is no longer compatible with CYXX - Abbotsford by Ryanosaurus13! Old terraforming in the scenery causes elevation issues at BCH.
- Runway spawns may not spawn you accurately on the pad - this is aircraft dependent and out of my control. Parking spots are normally accurate.
- BC Helicopters is currently listed as an airport. This is because a runway is needed to add cold & dark spawns to the scenery. Helipads currently act as runway starts and will spawn you with your engine running. This will be corrected in the future when it's possible to have cold & dark helipad starts.
- The windsock may drop to and stay stuck at half-mast when loading into the heliport. This seems to be a sim issue where sometimes the elevation offset value doesn't get accounted for on load-in.
Credits
A very special thanks to the Got Friends team for their knowledge and contributions which have helped me to create better and better addons over the last several months.
The Grapevines, Small Shrub Crop, & Fuel Tank models present in the scenery were all contributed by Mykrode of Got Friends. Thanks for taking that workload off my back and helping this scenery meet its Canada Day release date!
Thanks to DeltaTango for providing their library of Campers which have been referenced in this scenery!
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Hi! Are the grape vines included in your object library or are they specific to this mod???
10 months ago
Hello,
Sorry for the late reply. I have been out of town. They are included in Emerald Object Library.
10 months ago
rotornut44
GScene
Great job. Only is issue I run into is the Helipads are in a hole and in actuality at that place they are slightly raised higher then the surrounding fields for proper landing pads.
1 years ago
How big of a hole are we talking? From what I remember the pad elevation should be about even with the fields. I even recall it being a bit deeper than the fields from my reference photos. Or at least a bit of a mound bordering the two. If you are seeing a deep hole, you likely have an addon installed messing with the terraforming (Abbotsford freeware does this).
1 years ago
rotornut44
TrevAir
Ugh.... The latest Canada Update has completely ruined this scenery... Like, there is now PG under and around all the custom models, PG trees that look like blocks... Hopefully the PG can be somehow excluded in a future update.
1 years ago
Photogrammetry should be excluded for the heliport? Unless it got missed or removed in the last update. I'll go look it over and see if I can do anything to make it work with photogrammetry a bit better.
Edit: Just had a look. The exclude is there. I just see the photogrammetry sticking up through the trees and such, but no conflicts with the helipads or BCH building. I'll look at doing a bigger exclude tomorrow.
1 years ago
rotornut44
ltjackson
Looks great! Hope you will consider doing the airport as well!
1 years ago
ltjackson
You know I'm a huge fan of your contributions to the flight sim community! This is a real beauty!!
1 years ago
ahunterg95
Hi -sorry new to MSFS 2020 - is this the same BC Helicopters as the HCG version that is also recently available but doesn't require the same dependencies as this ? If not can someone let me know the difference between the two or is it just two different takes on the same place ?
1 years ago
this is a complete new build by this developer, My scenery pack is older and not as detailed as this one!
1 years ago
HCG
Adam03
Great job, really nice place to operate out of. Amazing detail.
This area with the Google maps mod, We love VFR, The powerlines mod and REX trees is absolutely stunning! This is without doubt my go to Heli base from now on. Thank you!
1 years ago
TheMoose
You already know my opinion lol! Great work man!
1 years ago
HCG
Stunning work as always Rotor. Was such a joy admiring all the details you put into this one. Congratulations on yet another amazing release!
1 years ago
GotFriends
I want to thank the developer for this great improvement to BC Helicopters. I have made several attempts at improving this scenery and failed miserably all times. This looks just like the real deal. Pilot Yellow should be proud!
1 years ago
gje
Have downloaded and unzipped three times, but nothing shows up. WinZip says the zip file is empty. What am I doing wrong?
1 years ago
Not having any issues on my end. Maybe something with WinZip? Downloaded from flightsim.to and tested in WinRAR, 7-Zip, and with the default Extract All option on Windows 10.
1 years ago
rotornut44
mauiguy