VRChat Aviation: The Best Planes I have ever flown
- Santiago "Cubeboy" Cuberos
- 17 hours ago
- 2 min read
When you think of VRChat Aviation, you usually think of fast jets and high intensity dogfights at the peak of performance. Maybe you think of high capacity airliners, or immense test worlds with many aircraft; and you would be safe thinking that.
That being said, there is a smaller but clearly important part of the VRCAviation community: Small Niche Worlds with immense quality. We went to one such experience last night and it would be a crime not to talk about it. This world is HET TEST Flight World by Hettan Turtle.
The world consists of a mountainous valley with a small village, all surrounded by forest and rolling hills. Clouds loom overhead but they are white and puffy, unlike many other flight worlds out there at the moment. Visually, this world is quite great and runs excellently, especially for flight world standards. As for the timeframe that the creator went for, it seems to be around the early 1910s, featuring canvas-strung hangars with wooden structures, as well as the stars of the show: the early-era aircraft.
To say that these aircraft are some of the most original and brilliantly creative ones that I have seen so far, would be the understatement. The amount of polish and effort that went into them is clear from the moment you join the world.
There are several types that include but not exclude: Land-based two-seater and single-seat aircraft, and a surprise floatplane. All of these aircraft have been meticulously modeled and a lot of thought has gone into not only their visual presentation, but the ways in which their flight models and engines differ.
In this era of aviation, small power differences between aircraft mattered a lot. This makes sense since we are flying what amounts to a kite at best, made from light metal, canvas and wood. And this is something you can feel in Hettan's world.
The aircraft reassembling a two-seater Sopwith had a lot more power than the other two seaters, something that was immediately clear the moment that I input full throttle on my two-seater and I still couldn't keep up with the Sopwith.
The aircraft have this very palpable torque, the engines roll the aircraft and make it slightly yaw as your throttle input changes, a feeling I have rarely if ever felt in VRChat. Keeping formation with these aircraft is challenging, but I cannot help but to love it.
These felt like living aircraft, and that is what separates them from anything else I have flown on VRChat. Please, give it a try, and support Hettan if you can. We need more aircraft like these, and we cannot have them without the creators that made them.
About the Author
Santiago "Cubeboy" Cuberos
Longtime aviation fanatic with particular preference towards military aviation and its history. Said interests date back to the early 2000s, leading into his livelong dive into civil and combat flight simulators. He has been involved in a few communities, but only started being active around the mid 2010s. Joined as a Spanish to English translator in 2017, he has been active as a writer and the co-founder of Skyward ever since. Twitter | Discord: Cubeboy
