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HEMS OPS – Helicopter Mission Planning
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Standalone mission planning tool for flight sim helicopter pilots: mass & balance, fuel planning, hover performance and a dispatch-style OFP, for 10 helicopter types and 23 mission profiles.
DESCRIPTION
HEMS OPS prepares your helicopter flight the way an operator would. Pick an aircraft and a mission, load the crew and equipment, plan the fuel, enter the weather, and get a full operational flight plan before you start ... HEMS OPS – Helicopter Mission Planning
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Standalone mission planning tool for flight sim helicopter pilots: mass & balance, fuel planning, hover performance and a dispatch-style OFP, for 10 helicopter types and 23 mission profiles.
DESCRIPTION
HEMS OPS prepares your helicopter flight the way an operator would. Pick an aircraft and a mission, load the crew and equipment, plan the fuel, enter the weather, and get a full operational flight plan before you start the engines.
It runs on its own, outside the simulator, so you can use it on a second screen with any sim: MSFS 2020/2024, X-Plane, P3D or DCS. The interface follows real electronic flight bag conventions: clean, day-only, with your entries in cyan, computed values in green and missing data clearly flagged.
FEATURES
Mission & loading
- 10 helicopter types, 23 mission profiles in 7 categories
- Ready-made load configurations: crew, medical equipment, rescue hoist, cameras, searchlight, cargo hook loads
- Set each load to board at base or at the landing site (patient pick-up, sling load hook-up, troops)
Mass & balance
- Mass and CG calculated for every flight phase: zero fuel, takeoff, arrival and departure at the site, destination, return to base
- Longitudinal and lateral CG envelope charts
- Instant warnings for MTOW or CG limit exceedance
- Editable aircraft profile to match your own airframe's empty mass and CG
Fuel planner
- Leg-by-leg trip fuel with headwind, approach time and rotors-running time on site
- Contingency, alternate, final reserve (VFR day, VFR night, IFR) and extra fuel
- Block fuel goes straight into the mass & balance
- Direct return to base option: cancel the destination with one click
Hover performance
- IGE and OGE hover capability at base and at the landing site
- Pressure and density altitude, maximum hover mass, power margin and limiting factor
- Wind effect on hover performance
- Hover ceiling charts for every outside air temperature
- Built-in METAR decoder (enter the METAR, OAT/QNH/wind are filled in)
Dispatch OFP
- Text-format operational flight plan in the style of real dispatch releases
- Route, fuel plan, weight & balance per phase, performance and weather
- Frozen once generated, with its own OFP number; copy or save as a text file
AIRCRAFT
- Airbus H125 (AS350 B3e)
- Airbus H135 (T3H)
- Airbus H145 (D3)
- Airbus H160
- Leonardo AW109SP GrandNew
- Bell 407GXi
- Bell 412EPI
- Bell 222B
- Boeing CH-47D Chinook
- Robinson R66
MISSIONS
HEMS primary, trauma, night NVG, inter-hospital transfer, neonatal transfer, organ transport, mass casualty MEDEVAC, hoist operations, mountain rescue, avalanche, SAR search, water rescue, firefighting, sling load, heavy lift, aerial filming, police/surveillance, passenger transport, personnel lift, VIP/corporate, training flight, proficiency check, ferry flight.
DATA TRANSPARENCY
Aircraft data come from public type certificate data sheets, flight manuals and manufacturer specifications. Every value is labelled in the app as official, approximate or estimated, with its source. Hover performance is calculated from a power model calibrated on published hover ceilings, and the app shows the model against the published figures.
IMPORTANT
For flight simulation use only. Not for real-world flight planning or operations.
Aircraft names and models are trademarks of their respective owners. HEMS OPS is not affiliated with or endorsed by Airbus, Bell, Leonardo, Boeing or Robinson.
Hover Training /xp New
Virtual Crew - Helicopter Crew Assistant New
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Your virtual crew chief is now in the cockpit. Real human voice callouts guide you to your sling load or to a precise landing point, with no external view and no guesswork.
FULL DESCRIPTION
STOP GUESSING. START HOOKING.
You hover. You squint at the tiny dot far below. You lean left, you lean right. You switch to external view for the tenth time.
Real helicopter crews don't work like that. A crew chief leans out of the door and talks you down: "... SHORT DESCRIPTION
Your virtual crew chief is now in the cockpit. Real human voice callouts guide you to your sling load or to a precise landing point, with no external view and no guesswork.
FULL DESCRIPTION
STOP GUESSING. START HOOKING.
You hover. You squint at the tiny dot far below. You lean left, you lean right. You switch to external view for the tenth time.
Real helicopter crews don't work like that. A crew chief leans out of the door and talks you down: "Load twelve o'clock, 80 meters… forward 10, right 5… easy… load directly below… down 5… hold position… hooked up!"
Virtual Crew brings that crew chief into your simulator.
TWO MISSION MODES, ONE TOOL
Sling / Hoist. Drop a pin on the satellite map where the load is. Virtual Crew tracks your hook, not your cabin, and guides you from the first nautical mile to "Hooked up", then to "Load clear. "
Precision Landing. Helipad, rooftop, confined area, mountain landing zone, patient pickup. Set the point and the landing heading, then fly. You hear the approach, the corrections, the heading calls and finally "Touchdown… right on the mark!"
A REAL HUMAN VOICE
No robotic text-to-speech. Every callout is recorded by a real person and processed with a cockpit-intercom sound, so it sounds like a crewmate beside you, not a GPS.
CALLOUTS THAT HELP, NOT SPAM
- Silent until 5 NM from the target
- One clear call per nautical mile on the way in (5, 4, 3)
- Continuous guidance in the last 2 NM
- Smart anti-spam logic: no flood of messages for a tiny deviation
- "Easy" when you close in too fast
- "Stop! Up up up" when your hook is dropping onto the load and you are not above it
KEEP YOUR EYES OUTSIDE THE COCKPIT, NOT ON A SCREEN
- Clock-position and distance calls: "Load two o'clock, 80 meters"
- Forward, back, left and right corrections in meters or feet
- Vertical guidance down to "Hold position"
- A live radar view (top-down, nose up) with a vertical gauge
- A satellite map to place your load or landing point anywhere in the world
DESIGNED FOR REAL SIMMERS
- Works with MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020 and X-Plane 12: one product, all your simulators
- External app: nothing to install into the simulator, no add-on conflicts, no config files to edit
- Works with the helicopter you already own
- Adjustable cable length (short, standard, long line, forest/mountain 50 m, or custom)
- Raised loads (roofs, platforms) supported
- Recalibrate in one keypress when you hover right above the target
- Global hotkeys that work while the sim has the focus
- Meters or feet
- Built-in demo mode to try it without a simulator
- Step-by-step manual included
PERFECT FOR
Long-line and external-load operations, HEMS and rescue missions, mountain and forest work, firefighting and construction lifts, offshore and rooftop landings, virtual airline pilots, and anyone who wants helicopter flying to feel professional.
WHAT YOU GET
- Virtual Crew application (ready to run)
- The real-voice callout pack, already included
- Complete user guide (README)
- [Free updates / your support policy]
HELIROMANDY
Built by helicopter simmers, for helicopter simmers.
Virtual Crew is a flight simulation tool and is not intended for real-world flight use.