PeterWolf’s Planes

1.2.2

🔊 Engine Sounds

• Airplane engine loop: Occupied fixed-wing aircraft now play a looping radial-engine rumble. Volume and pitch follow throttle (idle while boarded, louder and higher at full power). Large biplanes are slightly louder; the twin-engine variant is deeper.
• Helicopter rotor loop: Helicopters play a distinct rotor whoosh. Quiet spool-up on the ground with W, full rotor sound once airborne, with pitch shifting as collective changes.
• Engine audio is positional (heard from ~64 blocks) and plays for nearby players, including villager-piloted craft.
• Helicopter landing: Holding S now flares the descent near the ground but still settles onto the skids. All steering (cyclic and tail rotor) is locked while parked.

1.2.1

🛬 Vertical Descent-Speed Damping (Soft Landing)

• Automatic Descent Braking: When landing vertically with S (descend) in Simple Altitude Control mode, the helicopter automatically reduces its downward speed as it approaches the ground. Within 3 blocks of the surface the descent speed is scaled proportionally (down to a gentle 0.04 blocks/tick minimum), ensuring a soft, controlled touchdown with no crash damage.
• Liftoff Cursor Auto-Centering: On takeoff, the pilot's look direction is automatically reset to straight-ahead/level, eliminating any leftover pitch or drift from pre-flight camera movement.