Helicopter Flight Sim under $5!

I found a great game and at the moment, a real steal for getting it cheap. It's worth what I'd pay a regular price for, and this is why I love staying current with Steam sales. Until the 11th, it's $3.99 with another DLC package available to add Hind gunships. 

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What makes this really fun (for me, anyway) is how closely they've modeled this to how a real aircraft functions. I've not flown a helicopter, but I've read a great deal and love the sims. Finding one that makes full use of the 3 control elements and balance between them is a ton of fun. 

This is one game play video with a specific task...




This is one in time trial mode, and presumably a lot further into learning those balanced controls that I have managed. (Hey! I learned to take off AND land without crashing, in three different conditions tho! I'm a proud bunny!). I'm one of those Battlefield Vietnam / older Battlefield version players who tended to use up helicopters and then parachute from them as broken taxis rather than really be able to help by transport or meaningful close air support. (just DUCK! Hide! Dig a DEEP hole! ....was a good rule if I got the Huey gunship in BF Vietnam and did gun runs) 

This game has more benefit than just a diversion tho. Its made by the same people that make the Arma series. I've read references about Arma content overlapping and can say after trying the free weekend for Arma III? The helicopters in that feel like dumbed down versions of the ones in this. Same responsive flight though, so learning the hard and more manual way here made the combined control style of the Arma III versions like a cheat had been turned on. heheh.... 

Oh, by the way,

Arma III is the 'super' level of military sim games, in that what I could watch in online play was very serious and very practiced running through massively multiplayer combat environments like respawn didn't exist and success mattered above all. (I.E.....it really takes the real clock time to get from one place to another without being seen ..and combined arms is as coordinated and directed in some I've watched as it might be in real life for radio control of elements) People tend to take that one real real serious as a thing to take a learning curve for. It also looks like fun though, if I could find a niche to have fun with....and so, I may learn this helicopter thing as more than a 'Gee! I can LAND now without being inverted!'

This last one is another look at Take On Helicopters with a rescue mission. The game has modes for free flight, training tutorial Timed challenges and goal oriented missions like this.