Mil-Mi-6PS Development for FlightGear

Introduction

FlightGear is an open source flight simulator that is even used in flight schools to train basic maneuvers, radio communication and navigation tasks. It is available for windows, mac and linux.

In this article I want to introduce my development of Mil-Mi-6PS.

Characteristics

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-6
• Russian made Helicopter. First flight in 1957.
• Main Rotor diameter: 35 m (114 ft 10 in)
• Tail Rotor diameter: 6 m 30 cm
• Fuselage length: 33 m 18 cm (108 ft 10 in)
• Total length: 41 m 74 cm
• Powerplant: 2x Solowjow D-25W (gas turbine) 4101 kW each
• MaxTakeOff 93696 lb Variant Poschar (Fire) up to 20 tons of cargo
• Range: 620 km (385 miles) with 8000 kg payload
• Ferry range: 1,450 km (900 miles)
• Service ceiling: 4,500 m (14,750 ft)
• MaxSpeed: 300 km/h (190 mph)
• Cruise speed: 250 km/h (135 kn)

Development steps

• Moritz Röhrich (Blender3D) started this project in 2010. I got in contact with him and take the task to work on it since then.
• Reducing the 3D-model size
• FDM (Flight Dynamic Model) work with help of Russian manuals to get realistic bahaivior
• Full Instrumentation in the cockpit
• Lots of Animations like paratroopers, elephant transport, ground effects, ambient lightning, doors
• Firefighting variant implementation with water canon and water loading from lakes or rivers
• Autopilot programming
• Autoflight systems for hoovering, rescue holding in the air, start up and different flight speeds
• Various video productions with flights uploaded on Youtube and documented on Steemit.

Link to the repository

https://github.com/HerbyW/MI-6PS

Proof of work

In my profile on Utopian.io, the github repo MI-6PS is listed in my project
page, which is show in the screenshot as follows:

The login page on github.com is shown in the following screenshot:

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