http://www.gamersyde.com/news_e3_take_on_helicopters_on_s_envoie_en_l_air_-11338_fr.html

Now if they could do an addon SAR with all the procedures and varieties of missions of SAR4, it would be a DREAM come true!!!

So it wasn't just an April Fool's hoax then?

It never was a hoax.Its real.

the arma engine isn't very good as a flight sim. it's worse for helicopters. the problem with it is that they try to put in everything and end up having everything at a mediocre level. it's good for simulators because it presumes the player is a certified pilot, soldier, whatever, but for a fun civilian verison where part of the challenges comes from learning how to master the controls, it's a real failure.

take on looks like more of that.

Well BIS devs already mentioned that this Take On Helicopters sim will be based on a considerably MODIFIED engine of ArmA3 (yes, based on ArmA3 which as we all know it wasn't released yet). The "modified part" of the engine is definitly because of features needed to realistically model helicopters - Since there's no need to model infantry or even perhaps ground vehicles, things like helicopter flight model/physics can be vastly improved without taking up to many PC resources (a thing that would almost certainly happen with ArmA)!
I think we should wait and see how this Take On Helicopters sim will be in the end but saying that Take On Helicopters will not be good because it's based on ArmA engine is just plain wrong because any engine can be modified to do whatever the programmers what it to do (and even more effectivelly if the programmers are ones that made the engine, which is the case).
Take an example: look at Combat-Helo project a sim that's being developed using an engine called "Leadwerks" which is an engine that was designed for FPS game but it's being used to develop a realistic helo sim. It's true that COmbat-Helo wasn't released yet but from what I've seen so far the devs of this sim are doing a great job and this with an engine that wasn't designed for helicopter sims!

By the way, I totally and completly disagree with you Johncage when you say that the ArmA engine as a flight sim is "worse for helicopters" - IMO, helicopter are FAR BETTER modeled in ArmA than for example fixed-wing aircraft (these ones yes, are crap) or any other vehicles (such as cars, tanks, boats, etc...) for that matter and IMO the helicopter flight model in ArmA is not that bad, I find it rather good and even better than some dedicated helicopter flight sim and games that I played in past such as the Comanche series (1, 2, 3 and 4) and Gunship! Is the ArmA helicopter flight model perfect? NO! Does it need improvements to be more realistic? definitly YES! But nevertheless the helicopter flight model in ArmA is far better than arcade (or the ones seen in arcade helicopter games) and is definitly nearer to simulation that arcade.

Resuming, I'm following this Take on Helicopters sim/project with a very high level of interest and I do have high hopes for this sim but of course I hope not to be wrong...

I'll buy it.

I wish they'd put the "black helicopter" missions in. I wouldn't mind piloting a few cattle mutilation flights.

Cheers!

Rick...

The community preview (beta?) version has been released, you need a copy of Arma II Operation Arrowhead to play it.

Yeah, can`t wait to try it within the next hours...
http://takeonthegame.com/download/community-preview/

Are they planning to make the flight dinamic engine compatible for Arma2 serie?
It could be very interesting make Heli operations more real.

maybe for arma 3, methink.