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"Bill Leaming" <n4gix@comcast.net> wrote in message news:11s98xric6dwk.j384688g48x$.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:01:52 +0100, Jan Berg wrote:
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> > "Bill Leaming" wrote:
> >> He's building a "RC Flying Club" scenery, complete with RC a/c, AI
> >> controlled of course...
> >
> > That sounds interesting, is there any version available yet?
>
> Not yet. He's still working on the "flight dynamics" for the scale model,
> aircraft models. As you can well imagine, it's quite difficult to get the
> 1/24th scale a/c to fly realistically in the sim.
Hi Tim & Bill... Many of you know I also am a RC pilot (and an ex-real pilot). As I also use RealFlight G2 and also fly a Raptor v30 (and other RC fixed wing crafts). I am also a long time MS FS user since v2.
Now Bill, don't underestimate the high quality of these current RC flight simulators. For starters, the graphics are gorgeous! I've posted the screen shots of RealFlight G2 (RF) here before in the past. Trees actually look like trees; rocks, flowers, barns, telephone poles, haystacks, people, etc. are all photo like quality. It's night and day between FS9 and RF. The only graphic area IMHO that FS9 beats RF are for water, mountains, and weather effects.
Not only are most of the graphics far more impressive than FS9, but it also captures the realism of flight far better than FS9 does. RF itself also allows you to modify and create your own crafts and landscapes. And within minutes you can copy a RC model and make it into full size. And it even flies like a real craft with very few tweaks here and there.
RF sports about the same views as FS9, like tower (RC pilot view), chase plane, and cockpit views. And the downside for us FS9 users flying something like RF falls short in two big areas.
1) The cockpit view doesn't show the inside of the craft. Although it does sport a panel that displays airspeed, prop RPMs, heading, etc. But that is all you got. No nice looking gauges or anything.
2) RF G2 only sports one square mile of detailed landscape. After that, you're off the end of the world. Much like Melissa sees with FSM (Hi Melissa!). Now RealFlight G3 has been released for a month or two now. And this newer version sports 5000 square miles of landscape. Although I haven't played with this one yet.
Now Bill... I posted here about 7 months ago how to setup FS9 to fly a Bell206 like a RC helicopter. Basically it was speeding up FS9's real time to about 4 to 6 times faster. Although in my example, things like climbing and dropping was pretty badly off realism. But it was good enough to show FS9 users what it was like to hover a RC heli without buying RF or a RC.
If anybody is interested, I'll upload those RF shots up again if someone wants to look at them (I'm on my laptop right now that only runs up to FS98). Although my current flight simulator computer has a geforce video card in it (64MB). But I have to be honest with you Bill, that old SiS315 video card in my other machine displays graphics far better. And that one only has 32MB of RAM. The biggest difference is that SiS doesn't slow down cranking the lighting all the way up.
Bill
P.S. boB, is this the thread you were referring to about talk about my RC controller?