The Reflex Sim..WOW!

[mykel-t]

I NEED THE OPINION OF AN EXPERIANCED PILOT!* read on...

If you have not seen this flight sim, by all means get one, or try to pry it out of the hands of someone that has it. This thing is not to be believed!. The scenery graphics are 1st rate even down to the glissening sun off the wings as you make your final approach. My reasons to purchase was simple, I'm a new pilot and wanted to continue some kind of flying through the coming winter. Well to my amazement this feels and sounds like the real thing and you get to use your own radio(s). ( additional feedback upon request)

Here is the point of this post. The "Trainer-40" is modeled after their Kyosho plane. Not so bad you say?, right, a fairly friendly plane much like the trainer I had/have. Well after about 40 mins of flying this thing, using severally different flying fields... I decided to try my hand at one of the Warbirds to see how I would adapt. ( the F-86 seemed cool ) a real upgrade...What the heck, right? Well to my surprise I flew this thing BETTER than the Trainer!!! Let me rephrase that, I flew this to every point in the sky that I wanted and it felt rock steady!. Of course I could not nail a landing with it....but I have no doubt I will!.

* Can any of you old-pro's out there that have any experiance with this Sim tell me "How is this possible" THanks Mykel-t

[Mitch G]

I saw this Sim at the Chicago hobby show and I agree, the scenery is incredible. Apparently, they take photos and surveys of actual locations and then fold them into the software. They even take into account parameters like grass length or bumpiness of the ground.

As far as the differences in your flying experiences are concerned, trainers can be harder to fly in a sim because the sim is trying to make it act like a trainer in that it will bring it back to level flight if you put it in a turn and take your hands off the sticks, that sort of thing. Whereas the warbird will go where you point it, thus making it easier to fly.

The question is, which was easier to land?


Mitch

[umrk]

Several threads about Reflex in the Sim forum...
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=172

[Roj]

Of every plane I've ever flown over the last 20 years, by far the easiest and best behaved in the air is my competition F5b hotliner glider. It is the only plane i would dare to fly even in extreme wind conditions (even heavy rain). It goes exactly where i point it, and gets there doing over a 100mph glide. :)

BUT ... it takes all my 20 years of experience to know how to launch and land this thing. The margin between lift and stall speed is a fine one and unforgiving....

It is no point being able to keep your F18 up in the air if you have no means of safely getting it down in one piece. That is why trainers exist in the first place. (I guess also that's why sims exist!)

Set the trainer in your sim up for random deadstick events, turbulent weather conditions, rearward CofG, and increased wing loading (ie lower stall speed). Then practise spot landings or "touch and goes" in these conditions over and over again. If you are comfortable with this, you're more likely to be satisfied with your F18!

ps - Reflex does look great from what i've seen. I'm thinking of trading in RealflightG2 for it.

[William Bosco]

here can one buy this sim? willie

[mykel-t]

That's great advice Roj and I will be trying that. After all it's not like really crashing now is it!.... Willie check out the thread that is posted above and then you can try [URL=http://www.reflexinfo@modelrectifier.com] OK? THanks Mykel-T