Hype Performance Group has just announced their newest add-on project, a Hot Air Balloon for Microsoft Flight Simulator, releasing this Friday (October 7th) for $15.00, exclusively on their website. Known for developing helicopters, such as the H135 mod with an impressive 534000 downloads and their payware H145, this is their first venture into the ballooning universe.

The HPG Hot Air Balloon comes with a huge feature list, as seen down below:

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Highly Detailed 3D Model, Textures and Animations

- Professionally modeled with incredible interior and exterior details

- 17 liveries included, all at 4K resolution and with PBR textures inside and out

- Fully animated cockpit and animations for inflation, deflation, stall and collapse

- Animated 3D humans including a hot air balloon operator and 2 passengers

- Designed and optimized for VR with great FPS performance, working VR Cockpit Zoom and proper visual scaling throughout the model

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Avionics & Systems

- Steam gauges showing barometric altitude, vertical speed and envelope thermometer

- Available AI pilot that can control the hot air balloon based off terrain or altitude

- EFB tablet included with maps and additional apps available

- Balloonist Maps App: shows GPS speed and track

- Little NavMap App: connect to LNM, the free open source flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system

- Nearby Radio Stations: listen to radio stations local to the area you're currently flying in

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Hot Air Balloon Flight Model

- Fully integrated internal hot air balloon flight model and envelope simulation

- Power Plant: 2x 12 million BTU burners with realistic visual and sound effects

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Immersive Sound Pack

- Realistic burner and environmental sounds

Bonus Features

- Launch fireworks with realistic visual and audio smoke and explosion effects

- Create other nearby AI flown HPG Hot Air Balloons on demand

- HPG Hot Air Balloon can be set to follow a MSFS flight plan or current wind conditions

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