Digital Aeronautics Updates Mi-2 to v1.2.0 for MSFS 2024
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The Mi-2 v1.2.0 update brings significant improvements to the helicopter's flight dynamics with updated CFD calculations for better aerodynamic stability, reduces tail rotor RPM to more realistic levels, and adds MSFS 2024 native features including passenger boarding, fuel-tanker requests, and full walkaround mode with visual passenger and pilot models. The update includes four fuel-tank configurations with corresponding weight-and-balance changes, improved performance through LOD optimization, rebuilt effects and sounds around a modular system, and fixes to several WASM-based systems. The changelog details specific flight model enhancements such as improved horizontal stabilizer CFD and better straight-flight stability.
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Digital Aeronautics has released version 1.2.0 of their Mil Mi-2 (NATO: “Hoplite”) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, an update that adds the latest 2024 SDK improvements.
It is the first big update for the MSFS 2024 version, following the Mi-2’s original MSFS 2020 release earlier this year.
A set of native MSFS 2024 features have also been added.
A quite large part of v1.2.0 concerns the flight model, where the fuselage now uses 2024’s updated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), which Digital Aeronautics says improves airflow calculations around the helicopter’s surface.
Separate CFD configurations exist for the various helicopter versions, and the flight model will vary depending on whether one or both external fuel tanks are fitted.
Additional CFD surfaces have been introduced on the horizontal stabiliser, and the tail section should now have improved straight-flight stability.
Furthermore, tail rotor RPM has been reduced to a more “correct” level, and the main rotor has now been reconfigured around the new aerodynamic model as well.
MSFS 2024’s passenger and ground-service functionality is now included, meaning passengers can be requested through the sim’s native system, after configuring the helicopter’s weight through the tablet EFB solution.
A bus will then arrive, and passengers will walk out and board the helicopter.
A fuel tanker can now similarly be requested through the simulator’s built-in ground-handling menu.
Full support for MSFS 2024’s walkaround mode is now included, along with visible pilot models, seated passengers, chocks, covers and plugs, a new tablet model, and a more modular aircraft structure, built to take advantage of MSFS 2024’s LOD and performance gains.
The model complexity will now decrease with distance, so the further the camera moves, the less detailed the model will become, saving on performance.
No fewer than four fuel-tank configurations are available, allowing you to choose to fly with no tanks, an individual tank, or both, with the corresponding weight-and-balance changes applied.
Effects and sounds have been rebuilt around the modular system, and some miscellaneous multiplayer display and audio issues have been addressed.
Other additions include a thermal sensor, a first-aid kit, glass scratches, maintenance-related exterior equipment, and fixes to several WASM-based systems.
WASM is the code environment used by many aircraft systems in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Changelog v1.2.0
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