Helicopter Flight simulator.

lillpojken · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:07 pm Post subject: Helicopter Flight simulator.

Hello all you helicopter pilots with Flight simulators.

I'm looking for advice what the best choice of a helicopter flight simulator
would be? I think it would be worth having one, weather here still fairly windy and summer is short.
Any help is appreciated, Thanks.

Richard.

tombo242 · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:20 pm Post subject:

You'll get lots of other opinions - my money's on ClearView, support is second to none and everything is developing all the time. Checkout the ClearView forum here.

FMS on the other hand is free rubbish, don't touch it, there are other free sims, I consider the best of the freebies to be HeliSimRC, but it's not a patch on ClearView.

Tom.

Trouble · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:33 pm Post subject:

Your thinking cannot be faulted. They are extremely helpful! It just comes down to what you want in one, and...how much you want to spend.
Here is a good little thread on the top ones, including Clearview, which i have and is outstanding for what I need! Since this thread does not say much about it, I will say a word..or 2...CV is very cheap in price, one time payment, as opposed to constantly paying for upgrades on the other 2, well, not entirely sure about Phoenix...but, I get to use my own TX, and the physics are spot on compared to my real RC helis, the grafix are pretty nice too. Upgrades are free, I think RF is over rated and over priced, (IMO!!) Phoenix is cheaper but....still too much for what it is intended to do, ClearView does all that I need, to teach me the muscle memory I need to do new things and to react for "just in case". Just remember, a Sim is not going to teach you to fly.
Sims

solentlife · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:48 pm Post subject:

My vote is with HeliSimRC .....

Purely because I hate spending money and default heli is a Trex 450 .......

FMS ... as another says is total rubbish and I am constantly amazed at how many times it gets advised to newbies ...

FMS ....... if model is on ground and you give UP elevator ... tail disappears into the ground ..... yes it gets swallowed up.
FMS ...... sounds are as if they are being blown bubbles out of a bowl of water ...... and often crash or don't sound at all.
FMS ........ landing is an art in itself .... if you can land in FMS correctly - I say you aint gonna do it with a real model !!

I had Clearview as a trial and YES ... it's very very good but at end of day graphics is not what I'm paying for .. I'm paying for simulator to perform ......... HeliSimRC does that and free. It will take any Tx that can be plugged into a PC ... or a dedicated USB Tx as I was supplied with RC Planemaster .........

I am not convinced that so much money has to be spent on this ...

nick_onelove · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:39 am Post subject:

I can't comment on any of the others, but personally I use RealFlight.

The graphics/physics are great, the customization options are vast, and it has some solid online multiplayer; including combat, contests, and even just fun-fly's.

Whichever you decide, definitely get one. It will save you so much money in the long run.

lillpojken · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:29 am Post subject:

platinum · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:07 am Post subject:

I use RealFlight. I tried on ClearView it's good too.

platinum
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Link

http://www.electric-rc-helicopter.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4078

tombo242 · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:05 am Post subject:

Here's a Blade 400 in ClearView, (an old video of mine)

Link

Heli used is my own version available here.

Tom.

ferretmaster · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:14 am Post subject:

+1 for ClearView!

Great sim and as Tombo said, the support is second to none!

Had trouble a few months back and their techie spent a lot of time with me getting the sim to work right. As usual it was operator error!! Embarassed

Crashagain · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:42 am Post subject:

I got to throw a vote for Realflight. I got 5.5 and 3.5
You need a pretty goo system to run 5.5 but you can find 3.5 and 4.5 on ebay pretty cheap..

lillpojken · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:38 pm Post subject: I think I'll go for ClearView

Thanks all for the help.
Will order the CV and Controll box in about a week. Trial period has run out.
Could not fly much using only keyboard. I'm impressed with the great support fom CV, and by the way I'm slowly getting some controll of Blade120SR, wind improved this evening so took it for a spin. So far no broken parts.

Richard

nick_onelove · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:57 pm Post subject:

Yeah the whole point of a sim is to help build muscle memory in relation to a transmitter. The most training with a keyboard is going to help you is maybe with orientation. Get a USB Tx or a USB adapter for your real Tx as soon as you can.

That's good to hear about your 120 SR, keep it up!

platinum · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:24 am Post subject:

I use Dynam USB with my sim.
Notice how old is it. Question

platinum
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/Goal : relaxed flying with the least fixing. Very Happy

solentlife · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:37 pm Post subject:

The Dynam USB Tx is the one usually rebranded by many other Sim people for supply with their gear ... ie Reality Craft Sims give it out with their label.

I have one via the RC Planemaster and I find it very good, even though it has no dual-rates ... it's a plain 5 ch. Tx.
It does have an extra in form of the Idle Up / Gyro switch and also a rotary knob to alter pitch curve gradient ....

It's worth the $15 or so and saves fiddling about with own Tx .. but at end of day - best is to couple up your real flying Tx so you practice with the one you will use in the field. Heli's are not as forgiving as fixed wing and familiarity with controller is part of the battle.

FredLevy · Charging Joined: 16 Jul 2011 Posts: 1

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