H145 Helicopter - Beta #5 Update Now Available For Download
H145 Beta 5 is now live. Check your email or go directly to H145 Download Center.
Here is the full changelog:
New Sounds
- Power-Split (takeoff with one engine only, or fail engine in flight)
- Passenger doors
- Rotor brake
- ELT activation
- Pax vent blower
- Snow
- Dawn
- Floating on water
New Apps
- METAR lookup app
- Documents app replaces Charts app
- EFB Connect - Streaming Web Browser / Watch youtube etc (half screen + maps or full screen)
- Flappy bird game
- LittleNavMap (run Webserver in LNM app)
- Navigraph charts
- Alarms & Timers
- Activity Log
Features:
- Added many new status indications to the tablet, including doors-open
- Added ability to configure fuel units, temperature units
- Added many new L:Vars and H:Events for home cockpit
- User may add unlimited PNG/JPG documents
- Add a Realism Level switch to disable VRS and rotor over/underspeed (advanced rotor dynamics)
- Flight Model: Add Vortex Ring State simulation
- Added the ability to do doors-off flight
- Added Synthetic Vision System (SVS)
- Tablet battery will discharge based on DC RECEPT + main aircraft battery (plugged in)
- Flight model: adjusted rotor inertia
- Flight model: Autorotation is enabled again with a new simulation
- ELT will now activate with very hard landings
- Cockpit displays are photo-sensitive reducing the need for adjusting the master brightness
- Fuel flow sensor is now optional equipment
- You may now set weight and fuel from within the cockpit
Fixes:
- Fixes for tablet wallpaper being black
- Fixes to the FND and VMS rotor gauge visuals, including the extended danger rings
- Engines will indicate IDLE until they accelerate to a suitable rpm for flight
- Fix a bug where toggling the HTAWS switch would trigger the power on sequence display for the MFDs
- Fix delayed wind speed indicator
- Updated sounds for engine fire test
- Fixes to engine sounds
- Fixed bugs in FADEC logic preventing taking engines to IDLE in flight
- Floats will now add flight model drag
- Key binding added for fill floats
- Fix default 2d/VR cameras (divergence, tilt down 2d view)
- Fix bugs with message list flashing
- Combined various functions in tablet action center
- Make it easier to activate the front cockpit light by clicking it direct
- Reduce screen bounce light and cockpit ambient light
- Fix bug allowing use of AP without relevant systems available
- Fix sound phasing between doors
- AFCS modes flash now when moving to a degraded state
- N2 and NR metrics adjusted
- Rotor startup timing adjusted
- Fixed cockpit rear spotlight not emitting light
- Air Conditioning feature is limited to lux variant
- Fix decals on cockpit doors
- Fix rain/windshield flickering
- Fixed some metrics on NAVD page