Located two flying minutes from Downtown Manhattan, this 10-acre plus facility is home to many helicopters. It features two large hangars, many parking spots, spectacular views of the New York skyline and, it would appear, extensive ground facilities.
Two friends, who know my New York scenery, realized that this facility was not represented in the simulator and asked me to try to construct it. I worked from website photos mainly and came up with what you see here:
https://www.hhiheliport.com/#overview
The Lincoln Highway bridge at the north end of the field was a black dam in the default photogrammetric representation, so I also built that bridge and the Pulaski Skyway farther north. I've included them as separate packages in case you want to use them instead of the default or some other bridge package.
I use it regularly as I learn to fly the Airbus H-145. I can now even land on one of the dollies used to tow skidded aircraft into the hangars. Give it a try! One of my users did (see gallery) ...
Credit: Helicopter CowanSim 222B with PanAm livery by Col. F. E. Cochrane on flightsim.to ... oh, and dolly landing by the same!
DarioImpini
DarioImpini
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nyxCexjeg2c
PhysicsTeacher author
4 months ago
owend1944
PhysicsTeacher author
4 months ago
chiggs
knack
knack
5 months ago
DarioImpini
Shalomar
Naming the folder inside Airport services anything other than the ICAO code results in not being able to use the aerotow feature in any glider at any airport in the world....
knack
holmatro308
But this mod affect all ground service of another airport, need to fix
Hotzenplotz
Great work of yours !!! Appreciate it a lot; thank you !
Hidenoei_Maruno
I hope you enjoy walking around New York.
PilotWayne
FlightsWithJoel
BPvL
Sabertooth
PhysicsTeacher author
10 months ago