Best known from the Pilot Yellow YouTube channel, BC Helicopters is a flight school in British Columbia, Canada. BCH was also the first operator of and is now a dealer for Cabri helicopters in Canada. This scenery has been designed from the ground up, in detail from various video and aerial sources. It has been made in collaboration with HCG, who has released a freeware Guimbal Cabri G2 alongside this scenery.
BC Helicopters is spawnable using its fictional ICAO code: BCH1. Parking spawns have been set for both helipads, as well as fuel. Runway starts have been positioned on pad 1 & 2, offering you the ability to spawn with your engine running. However, because of these spawns, there are a few minor side-effects. Please see the NOTAMs section above for more info!
The scenery only covers the BC Helicopters property, the vineyards surrounding it, as well as the industrial yard to the south. The Abbotsford airport is not covered!
Features
- 15cm/px aerial imagery.
AI enhanced, hand-corrected and colored to match the surrounding terrain. - Custom buildings and various clutter models.
Up to 8k resolution PBR materials. - Hand-placed vegetation.
Weeds, Shrubs/Bushes, Shrub Crops, Grapevines, & 3D Trees! - Helipad Spawns
Features cold & dark and runway parking spawns on both helipads as well as a working fuel spot. Notice: Runway spawns may not spawn you accurately on the pad – this is aircraft dependent and out of our control.
This scenery requires the following libraries to function correctly:
- Emerald Object Library (MSFS)
- Camper Library by DeltaTango (Optional)
Supported Sim(s)
MSFS (2020)
File Format: 7z (7-Zip)
Extracts with most modern archive extractors – Supports better file compression.
File Size
67.1 MB (Compressed), 230 MB (Uncompressed)
February 15, 2023 | v1.2.3
- Added dynamic chimney smoke VFX.
- Adjusted positioning of some Grape Vines to better follow the terrain.
- Adjusted autogen tree height near BCH Building.
- Excluded some default autogen buildings that appeared in the industrial yard.
- Fixed a terraforming issue near the entrance of the industrial yard.
January 31, 2023 | v1.2.2
- Adjusted positioning of some Grape Vines to better follow the terrain.
- BCH Building: Fixed missing emissive texture on LOD2, removed some unused UVs, baked AO into Albedo to further optimize textures, tweaked lights, & light emissives will now produce light bloom when bloom is enabled in settings.
- BCH Building Roof Turbines: Removed unnecessary Normal texture & fixed shading issues.
- Helipads: Added collisions & stepped down texture resolution over LODs to optimize texture memory at a distance.
- Removed some photogrammetry spikes along the road near the Abbotsford Airport.
October 22, 2022 | v1.2.1
Note: After World Update: Canada, BCH is no longer compatible with CYXX Abbotsford by Ryanosaurus13, due to old terraforming present in the scenery.
- Fixed Windsock sometimes snapping to half-mast (hopefully).
- Reworked TIN exclude to remove a larger area of Photogrammetry.
October 3, 2022 | v1.2.0
- Added a few missing rows of grapevines.
- Adjusted rotation of grapevines and bush crops to better follow rows and elevation changes (More tweaking will be needed, but the worst of it is fixed for now).
- Fixed elevation issues caused by new DEM introduced in World Update Canada.
- Moved runway location to prevent unwanted terraforming changes in grapevine field.
- Improved BC Helicopters building model: Merged some model parts to reduce drawcalls, removed duplicate vertices, exported all textures as 16-bit, generated LODs, reduced LOD texture memory, added collisions.
July 16, 2022 | v1.1.0
- Added additional clutter and lighting around the construction supply yard.
- Added additional clutter around the general area.
- Added improved roads surrounding BC Helicopters.
- Added environmentally-dynamic water puddles.
- Changed parking spots to Dock_GA to avoid AI spawning.
- Excluded a stray light orb near the construction supply yard.
- Fine-tuned windsock elevation.
- Improved BC Helicopters Building: Fixed gutter shading issues, fixed gutter downspout clipping into edge trim, added new light above main door, improvements to PBR textures, fixed spotlight UV unwrap, & decreased emissive resolution to reduce memory usage.
- Removed falsely-detected buildings from the construction supply yard and general area.
- Roof turbine vents now dynamically animate based on local wind speed.
July 1, 2022 | v1.0.0
- Initial Release
Please be advised that you may experience the following:
- After World Update: Canada, BCH is no longer compatible with CYXX – Abbotsford by Ryanosaurus13! Old terraforming in the scenery causes elevation issues at BCH.
- Runway spawns may not spawn you accurately on the pad – this is aircraft dependent and out of my control. Parking spots are normally accurate.
- BC Helicopters is currently listed as an airport. This is because a runway is needed to add cold & dark spawns to the scenery. Helipads currently act as runway starts and will spawn you with your engine running. This will be corrected in the future when it’s possible to have cold & dark helipad starts.
- The windsock may drop to and stay stuck at half-mast when loading into the heliport. This seems to be a sim issue where sometimes the elevation offset value doesn’t get accounted for on load-in.
