FSX Default Robinson R22 Beta II Damage Mod

This modification adds to your default FSX Robinson R22 wear/damage simulation and other nice effects. Features: engine wear and damage simulation, engine and tailrotor gearbox oil use, engine oil condition (affects engine wear), engine oil change (every 25 hours like real R22), engine vibration in virtual cockpit, tailrotor strikes if tailrotor gearbox oil is low, cyclic vibration, cockpit switches sound effects, cockpit instruments takes dirt, cockpit instruments will damage if you land the helicopter very hard. All wear, damage and dirt situations will be logged and saved. By Ismail Hakki Guezel.

Features:

• Engine wear and Damage Simulation.
• Engine and Tailrotor Gearbox Oil use.
• Engine Oil condition (Affects Engine Wear).
• Engine Oil Change (Every 25 Hours Like Real R22).
• Engine Vibration in Virtual Cockpit (If Engine or Tailrotor are damaged, or you fly greater than 100 knots vibration will be greater then normal and you hear cockpit rattles sound effect).
• Tailrotor Strikes if Tailrotor Gearbox Oil is low.
• Cyclic Vibration (if Engine is running).
• Cockpit switches Sound Effects.
• Cockpit Instruments takes Dirt.
• Cockpit Instruments will Damage if you land the helicopter very hard!

All Wear, Damage and Dirt situations will be logged and saved. (Thank's to Doug Dowson)

Installation:

1. Backup your entire Robinson_R22 folder!
2. Copy the folders 'Effects' 'Gauges' 'SimObjects' and 'Sound' in to 'Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X' folder. If asks for overwrite click 'yes' to overwrite.
3. Copy and paste the below text to your sim.cfg, found in "Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Rotorcraft\Robinson_R22" folder:

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.1=-8.5, 0.0, 0.0 , fx_eng_smoke
smoke.2=-22.8, -0.74, 1.8 , fx_Tailrotor_smoke

- It should look like this:

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=landing
light.0 = 3, -5.60, -1.88, -1.60, fx_navred ,
light.1 = 3, -5.60, 1.88, -1.60, fx_navgre ,
light.2 = 3, -23.39, 0.40, 1.95, fx_navwhi ,
light.3 = 1, -18.90, 0.04, 2.58, fx_beacon ,
//light.4 = 5, -3.30, 0.20, -1.45, fx_landing ,
//light.5 = 5, -3.30, -0.20, -1.45, fx_landing ,
light.6 = 4, -7.75, 0.30, 1.50, fx_vclighth ,

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.1=-8.5, 0.0, 0.0 , fx_eng_smoke
smoke.2=-22.8, -0.74, 1.8 , fx_Tailrotor_smoke

Start FSX, select Default Robinson R22 and enjoy (Press Shift+9 to open the Check Panel). This mod uses Doug Dawson's 'dsd_xml_config.gau' and 'dsd_fsx_xml_sound.gau'. Thank you very much Doug for this wonderful gauges.

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