Penn State started doing a crude C++ conversion but I'm not sure if it was finished or perfected. The original Fortran version should be available to the public, at least in the USA. I will get in contact with some people and find out how far along the conversion ever got and who to contact to get the original Fortran. Once converted, all that is necessary appears to be the graphics and interface systems. Penn has previously had the Fortran running in Matlab and then interfaced just with FlightGear.

If SimHQ.com users with coding experience, Combat Helo's peeps, and DCS/ED coders can all band together to work on a line-by-line conversion and offer it back to the public, there is little reason not to. And then this final result can be utilized as-is or modified further to fit the performance capabilities of various other helicopters in commercial and non-commercial efforts.

I've sent some emails off and I'll see who needs to be contacted and what sort of agreements need to be signed. It's been stated several times by Penn, though, that GenHel is publicly funded and publicly open model of the Blackhawk. Just the last correspondence I've seen from them stated they were looking into possible export restrictions before they simply posted the original and their imperfect conversion efforts on the web. Considering DCS is run by a former CIA analyst and they make a National Guard A-10 simulator, I doubt there aren't ways to deal with even those in spite of them being based in Russia.

We have an enormous resource of people on this website that I would argue goes far beyond the coding expertise of one university academic engineering department. They and the helo simulation community as a whole would benefit from the efforts. There are so many disparate efforts on helos and it'd push this area much further if these were unified with a common goal.