nitrohelipga
Heliman
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida-USA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Well, Here's my opinion about the two, and what I found out to be an important part of my own training. Whatever Sim you get, I would highly recommend one that allows you to plug into the radio you'll actually be flying with. When you fly your real heli, your going to be using very fine micro adjustments in the hover and other phases of flight as you progress. If you use the inexpensive plastic training transmitter to practice than that's what your brain and your fingers will get use to. when you start to fly with a real Transmitter radio those small differences in feel will mean big differences in the air. You'll have to get use to another radio all over again. then if you go back home and practice again on the non-functional training transmitter, your just going to confuse your fingers and your brain on which one it wants to learn.
I've tried both Real Flight and Phoenix and find that Phoenix is more realistic and has every bell and whistle you'll need. I went from zero time in R/C heli's to flying backwards inverted,Hurricanes and Tick toc's in 9 months with six minor crashes. I contribute this to being able to plug the Phoenix flight Sim into my Spectrum DX7 radio, and a lot of Sim time. I've made my own rule about Sim practice. If I'm to busy to really practice on the Sim. than at a min. I'll squeeze in 10 min. to fly. Just that 10 min. Keeps the brain and fingers in tune with each other.
Honestly, I can not tell a difference between the real thing and Phoenix, accept for the pucker factor. If I can do it on Phoenix than I can do it on the heli. My local hobby shop has the Real flight on display. Every time I've played around with it, It just makes me feel better that I choose Phoenix. I Hope that helps some of you folks out there. |
