New Product Theirs going to be a G5

[tubamike78]

I fly with a dx7, but have never used it with the realflight. sounds like i'll just have to download the add-on's from the website, no problem.

[KE Ryan]

RealFlight G5, w/InterLink Elite controller, is available for an estimated street price of $200.

The RealFlight G5 Upgrade, which allows G3/G3.5 and G4/G4.5 owners to enjoy G5 using the InterLink controller they already have, is available for an estimated street price of $80.

Rebates are available for users who purchased G4.5 recently, bringing the G5 upgrade price down to about $30 or even free. Some restrictions apply.

Expansion Packs 1-6 are compatible with G5.

The old Add-Ons physical disks are not compatible with G5, but the repackaged versions of those Add-Ons--available for free download--are fully supported in G5.

[Comm69]

Good news indeed. Like others, I scoffed at the antics of Realflight dropping 3.5 and making some of the Packs incompatible, so I did not upgrade past 3.5

I have seen several Elite controllers go south, they do not seem to have the build quality that the manufacturer swears it does.

For $79 and the ability to keep my 3.5 controller and upgrade to 5, I will defintely buy into it.

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by j3tman

just got my new tower hobbies magazine today and on the front page was the new G5 form RealFlight! Comes with 75 aircraft over 5,00 squar miles of TrueLifeTerrain. Comes with a new multiplayer mode were you can fly with 31 other piolets. probaly the best thing about G5 is you can now Dogfight!!! You can dogfight be cutting streamers, paintball, machineguns, and evan rockets with a targeting system. if your just want to fly around in the real life on board cameras are getting pretty popular so now on G5 you can place an on board camera anywere on the airplane evan in the cockpit.

I looked around on realflight.com and towerhobbies and they dont have anything about it but im sure if you look throughtout the week you'll find something.

price wise its still $200 and with all the 1,2,3,4,5,and 6 expansion packs $372 still a little on the pricy side but worth it especially for beginers.

hoped you like the mini review!

Doesn't expansion pack 6 include everything from expansion packs 1-5? Any descriptions I've read about it say it includes access to everything from them, might be a download?

[Duckie62]

Tower Hobbies sent me a message that G5 is IN STOCK
Complete w/controller $199.98
Upgrade G5 disk $ 79.99

wparsons --
RealFlight is offering ADD ON DISK 1-5 for FREE download.

EXPANSION PACKS are completely different.
To answer your question: NO, EP6 does not include EP1 - EP6
EP1 has EP1 planes & flying sites. only
EP2 has EP2 planes & flying sites only
EP3 has EP3 planes & flying sites only
AND the cycle continues up to EP6

[Comm69]

whoops ....

[flieslikeabeagle]

Can anyone confirm or deny that G5 requires mandatory software registration before it will run? It sounds that way on the RF website, but it's not very clear whether this is only required for multiplayer use.

I run Windows on a hard drive partition for one purpose only - running RealFlight. I unplug the Ethernet cable from the PC before booting into Windows. It's the only way to keep Windows from being immediately compromised with viruses, worms, trojans, keyloggers, and who knows what else. If RFG5 requires mandatory online registration, I will not be purchasing it at any price.

-Flieslikeabeagle

[Skaluf]

Originally Posted by flieslikeabeagle

Can anyone confirm or deny that G5 requires mandatory software registration before it will run? It sounds that way on the RF website, but it's not very clear whether this is only required for multiplayer use.

I run Windows on a hard drive partition for one purpose only - running RealFlight. I unplug the Ethernet cable from the PC before booting into Windows. It's the only way to keep Windows from being immediately compromised with viruses, worms, trojans, keyloggers, and who knows what else. If RFG5 requires mandatory online registration, I will not be purchasing it at any price.

-Flieslikeabeagle

G5 does use online activation. However, you may also use another computer to get your activation code or simply call our RealFlight Technical Support number and they will give you the activation number to put into the program.

Steve Kaluf
Hobbico

[Comm69]

Skaluf ...

I will be going from 3.5 to 5.0 and would like to know how RF will handle a failure, down the road, of the Interlink Elite that came with my 3.5? Will there be any problems with purchasing the later Interlink?

As for the upgrade, will it install over my 3.5 and then need activating or will it accept my code from 3.5?

thanks

[Skaluf]

Originally Posted by Comm69

Skaluf ...

I will be going from 3.5 to 5.0 and would like to know how RF will handle a failure, down the road, of the Interlink Elite that came with my 3.5? Will there be any problems with purchasing the later Interlink?

As for the upgrade, will it install over my 3.5 and then need activating or will it accept my code from 3.5?

thanks

If you have a problem with your Interlink, simply contact RealFlight Technical Support. They will repair the unit if that's what is needed.

Steve

[stevedouglas]

Originally Posted by Comm69

Skaluf ...

I will be going from 3.5 to 5.0 and would like to know how RF will handle a failure, down the road, of the Interlink Elite that came with my 3.5? Will there be any problems with purchasing the later Interlink?

As for the upgrade, will it install over my 3.5 and then need activating or will it accept my code from 3.5?

thanks

Good question! Last year my Interlink Plus broke. I sent it in for repair - along with the $50.00 service charge - and they sent me a new one.

Labor is expensive and with new units sitting on the shelf it's a lot cheaper (for RealFlight) to simply replace a unit rather then repair it. Plus, I'm pretty sure that the Interlink Plus cost RealFlight a bit less then the $50.00 service charge.

The same is "probably" true of the Interlink Elite. In the future will the Interlink Plus be replaced by a new Interlink Elite when you send one in for repair to RealFlight? My opinion is yes.

But, what's the real answer Steve?

[Montag DP]

Originally Posted by flieslikeabeagle

I unplug the Ethernet cable from the PC before booting into Windows. It's the only way to keep Windows from being immediately compromised with viruses, worms, trojans, keyloggers, and who knows what else.

-Flieslikeabeagle

Paranoid much, or is there some good reason for this? At any rate, going to the Realflight website to register your product will not "compromise" your computer in any way.

[flieslikeabeagle]

Originally Posted by stevedouglas

I'm pretty sure that the Interlink Plus cost RealFlight a bit less then the $50.00 service charge.

I'd be surprised if it costs more than $10. You can buy a fully functional 2.4 GHz RC transmitter for $30 - and that price includes far more electronics than the RF Interlink, along with enough profit margin to keep the manufacturer in business!

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...x_&_Rx_(Mode_2)

-Flieslikeabeagle

[flieslikeabeagle]

Originally Posted by Montag DP

Paranoid much, or is there some good reason for this? At any rate, going to the Realflight website to register your product will not "compromise" your computer in any way.

“The mean time to infection is less than five minutes,” said Richie Lai, who is part of Microsoft’s Internet Safety Enforcement Team, a group of about 20 researchers and investigators. The team is tackling a menace that in the last five years has grown from a computer hacker pastime to a dark business that is threatening the commercial viability of the Internet.

Quote taken from here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=441

Windows is so insecure that it is essentially unusable. When Microsoft’s own Internet Safety Enforcement Team admits that it takes only minutes to be compromised, why would anyone delude themselves otherwise?

This is not an isolated study. There have been a number of "honeynet" experiments which discovered the same thing - Windows PC's can be infected and compromised within a few minutes of connecting to the Internet. Here are a few more studies which came to the same conclusion:
1) http://xpeqfe.blogspot.com/2005/07/t...2-minutes.html

2) http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/arch...minutes_1.html

The problem isn't the Knife Edge Software website. It's all the other hundreds of thousands of hostile websites that will try to infect your computer as soon as you connect it to the 'Net. A few minutes is all it takes, and you can easily have your PC infected in the time it takes to process your RealFlight G5 online activation.

This is why I don't use Windows for anything other than Real Flight, and why I will not connect it to the 'Net, even for a second.

Earlier this year I booted my Win XP (fully patched with SP3) PC using a Linux Live CD. I plugged in the Ethernet cable as was booted into Linux, which is far more secure than Windows. Later I shut down and removed the Linux Live CD, but forgot to unplug the Ethernet cable. I booted up Windows the next day to practice on Real Flight - with the Ethernet cable still plugged in, unbeknown to me - and within 30 minutes, the system became corrupted to the point where RFG 3.5 would no longer run. I had to re-install Windows and Real Flight from scratch.

I tried running RFG 3.5 on Vista (which is supposed to be more secure) on the same hardware, and it ran like an arthritic slug on a ball and chain wading through cold treacle. Frame rates dropped so low that the simulation was laggy and worthless for simulating reality. I went back to XP SP3.

-Flieslikeabeagle

[Comm69]

Hmmm .... well, I have been running Window products since they first hit the market. I have nerver, never gotten a virus, trojan, etc.

In your above case, that does not sound like a WinXP problem, sounds more like a poorly protected PC, possibly one that already had junk ware, add on bars, etc already on it. Have you considered that your Linux O.S. is letting in those baddies and that is what is infecting your disk?

This past evening, I installed RF 3.5 on this PC and, registered via the internet, in anticipation of the version 5 upgrade disk arriving this week. I also did the 3.5 updates and installed two expansion packs. Not a trojan or virus one got in during the process.