Helicopter Flight Simulator

The flight simulator market isn’t exactly crammed with a lot to choose from with the market being dominated by Microsoft’s flight simulator or ProFlight Simulator. If you want a helicopter flight simulator then ProFlight Simulator is well worth taking a look at as this allows you to fly helicopters as well as planes.

ProFlight Simulator includes an impressive collection of helicopters that you can fly making it truly a helicopter flight simulator in addition to the 100+ aircraft that you can fly. You can fly the following helipoters…

Bo 105*
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Bell 206 JetRanger
Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey
Piasecki HUP Retriever (H-25)
Piasecki H-21C Shawnee
Robinson R22
Sikorsky S-51(R-5)
Sikorsky S-58(H-34)
Sikorsky S76C++
Sikorsky S-70 (UH-60)
Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion (S-80)
Aérospatiale Alouette II
Aérospatiale Alouette III
Aérospatiale SA 321 Super Frelon
Eurocopter EC 135
Ecureuil AS 350 (FDM only)
Westland Lynx WG13

That is quite a collection of that includes military and medical helicopters. The possibilites are endless. A helicopter flight simulator lets you visit places on the map inaccessible to planes and you can land on mountainsides for instance. The helicopter models in ProFlight Simlulator handle in a realistic way that make you feel like you are flying a real helicopter. As well as the freedom to land anywhere on land there are over 20,000 airports that you can land at. The entire world is available for you to fly over and there are many detailed models of recognizable landmarks that you can flight to such the Great Wall of China, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Eiffel Tower.

ProFlight Simulator apart from having the most realistic helicopter models in any helicopter flight simulator also provides the most realistic flying experience by introducing changeable weather and realistic terrain that has been generated with data from the US Defense Mapping Agency. ProFlight Simulator is often used in professional flying schools before pilots are skilled enough to use actual flight simulator hardware. It is also possible to fly at night and it is a great experience flying over urban areas in a helicopter in the dark as the ground lighting is so realistic. There are even cars with illuminated headlights driving along the roads and the airport runways are fully illuminated.

Each plane and helicopter has a unique cockpit and controls that are based on the real life version of that same aircraft.