Flight simulator for a beginner?

[mrsr71]

What is the best flight simulator for a beginner heli pilot? I primarily use a laptop if that make a difference.

[grnbrg]

What is the best flight simulator for a beginner heli pilot? I primarily use a laptop if that make a difference.What's your budget? How capable is your laptop?


grnbrg.

[mrsr71]

What's your budget? How capable is your laptop?


grnbrg.

Both, middle-of-the-road.

[grnbrg]

I'd take a good look at Clearview (http://www.rcflightsim.com/) then. Cost is $40, and you'll need a USB adapter (http://store.rcsupersales.net/servlet/-strse-2656/USB-GWS-SIMULATOR-CORD/Detail). (You'll need the adapter for all the mid and low-end sims, BTW.)

I get 40-80 FPS on both my desktop PC and laptop, and neither have bleeding edge video cards, and both have 2-3 year old CPUs.

The next tier in sims starts at around $150 or so (I believe) and the additional eye candy associated with them will require more horsepower.


grnbrg.

[jasmine2501]

Try the demos of RealFlight and Clearview - I could run Realflight on my laptop, but Clearview was choppy. FMS runs good on all my computers. Just try the demos because you may find what I did - I expected Clearview would run better, but for some reason it doesn't.

[daybyter]

Take a look at heli-x ...

http://heli-x.net/index_e.shtml

[bwoollia]

Heli-X is a good free one, I use HeliSimRC as well. Works great on cheap hardware, costs nothing, and has some great training modes. http://www.marksfiles.net/HeliSimRC/index.htm

[Jimbo45cn]

Take a look at heli-x ...

http://heli-x.net/index_e.shtml
I tried downloading it and all it did was bounce me from page to page, first in English then in German. What the h---?

[Tag1260]

Check out Pheonix.

[jasmine2501]

I tried downloading it and all it did was bounce me from page to page, first in English then in German. What the h---?

You have to download it from the German page it seems...