Realflight G3.5 Sim Vs. Real thing.

[slade_x]

Hey, registered here a while ago when i first got interested in heli's, i bought a silverlit gyrotor and to this day i still cant fly it. Anyway back on topic i was set on a belt cp, but shy'd away when i read about building them, balancing them, setting them up for first flight etc. Also downloaded its manual and looked at the exploded view of assembly, i think that was the deal breaker, so my interested dulled.

However i did buy Realflight G3.5 for around €200 a few months ago, my favourite is the sundog sport 60 and liked other nitros like it also.

I saw an offer i just jumped at the other day and said what the hell, so i have a Belt CP RTF with some extra's ordered and on the way to me now (hopefully it will arrive before christmas) Apparently its a New 2007 model?

My Question is if i can hover etc, in the sim how much more of a learning curve is there in controlling the real thing. Is the Realflight sim pretty close to the real thing or just a general idea of the difficulty involved?

Also because of the sim i am so used to simulated flight with a nitro heli, i tried that little electric thing but i dont like it at all, i find it very sluggish in controls and such, Anyway what am i getting myself in for in regards to the contrast between a simulated nitro heli and a real Esky Belt CP

Thanks

[BowerR64]

IMO its pretty close. I have 3.5 also and i did a search for "T-rex for G3" and some one made a T-rex using the sundog as the basic model and then they tweaked the setup and IMO its the best most realistic flying model so far.

Keep using the sim and try all the models even the ones you dont like. The better you can handel the really twitch ones the easier its going to be fore you when flying the real thing.

The onlything about a sim and the real thing is your more relaxed in your home in your favorite chair and the fact that if you crash it wont cost you anything. The real thing makes me a bit nervious and that makes me not fly the same.

Another thing is the sim helis are setup properly. The real thing may not be, so keep using the sim and ask more questions in the heli forums. I think there are threads dedicated to the belt CP read threw them all and take notes of setup tips and stuff.

For me it was harder because none of my real helis were setup properly so i had to learn everything not just the flying. The better you understand how they work the easier it is.

[Daedalus66]

Also because of the sim i am so used to simulated flight with a nitro heli, i tried that little electric thing but i dont like it at all, i find it very sluggish in controls and such, Anyway what am i getting myself in for in regards to the contrast between a simulated nitro heli and a real Esky Belt CP

Thanks

If you are talking about the Watt Not model, forget it! It's very old, underpowered, fixed pitch and sluggish in response. It suffers dreadfully from pendulum effect. I flew it for a while as a way of learning to fly an old Hummingbird FP, which was equally underpowed and sluggish. But it's irrelevant to any reasonably modern CP helicopter.

So the nitro helis are a good place to start, but you need to try something with a bit quicker feel to get ready for the Blade. You might try the very good new Trex models available for download from the Knife Edge Swap Pages.
http://www.knifeedge.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=3417
The Trex 450SE V2 is a 3D version that may be a bit too fast at this stage, so also download the variant Trex 450SE V2 Stock, which flies like one with the paddle weights on (same URL but 3418 at the end).

These will not give you an exact sense of the Blade, but they will help you develop a feel for a range of control responses (also try high and low rates on both machines). And they are good flying models in their own right.