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Airbus RACER - SAR Version

The Airbus RACER (Rapid and Cost-Effective Rotorcraft) is an experimental high-speed compound helicopter developed by Airbus Helicopters from the Eurocopter X³. Revealed at the June 2017 Paris air show, final assembly will start in 2019 for a 2020 first flight. Cruising up to 400 km/h (216 kn), it aims for a 25% cost reduction per distance over a conventional helicopter.

With real version based on H160 cabin, this vehicule may be sightly bigger. SAR version up to 7 passengers and 2 medical beds.

• 7 passengers seats
  
• 2 medical beds
  
• 1 harness with both winches controls
  
• 1 stretcher
  
• Auto-rise back winches for harness and stretcher when occupied
  
• 8 illumination flares with lasting count on cockpit
  
• 8 smoke flares with lasting count on cockpit
  
• 1 gimball camera
  
• RGB cabin lights
  
• 2 pilot seats with switchable flight command
  
• Interactive system display with map, radar,touch camera control, landing camera, weather informations, engines, fuel capacity and speed meters with switchable units
  
• Double touchscreen radio system
  
• Altitude hold
  
• Up to 272kn (140m/s, 500 km/h) with propellers
  
• refueling hatch
  
• 37500 liters of fuel for exceptional range
  
• Closed bays for landing wheels
  
• Heaters
  
• Distress beacon
  
• Beacon locator
  
• 2 search spotlights (command on second pilot seat)

1. Enter cockpit on pilot seat
   
2. Activate Avionics and General electric breakers (up behind throttle lever)
   
3. Activate fuel pump and both engines switch (up ahead of throttle lever)
   
4. Wait to engines start, you can increase throttle a little (0.25 is enough to exit hangar)
   
5. De-activate brake (down middle ahead of thrust lever)
   
6. Pitch down a little to exit hangar and taxi
   
7. Increase throttle between 0.35 and 0.40 (you can't go over 0.4 as thrust is zero)
   
8. Raise with collective
   
9. Close landing gears (down middle ahead of thrust lever)
   
10. Increase both throttle and thrust to go full speed

You may need to slow down slowly as it may shakes. Altitude hold switchs between helicopter mod (act on collective) and plane mod (act on pitch) at 30m/s. You may need to slow down manually before landing.

• Fuel lasting time and range aren't functional as it changes too much
  
• Add waypoints on map and maybe an autopilot
  
• Luxuary transport version

• Commercial transport version
  
• Commando Version

- Special thanks to Acc Original for his Touchscreen Radio and his help

- PenguinO for his Computer Graphic Horizon T v3

- PenguinO again for his [Lua]Heading Display (analog) v2.3

- FN-20 for his Radar Controller

- MrNJersey for his Weather System

- Todd for the jet engine controller of his IDCG - HH-24 "Sea emperor"