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[noel]

Hey guys just some advice on what's the best flight sim to get please 



 Thanks Noel .

[robert]

Lots of folks swear by the phoenix simulator. The super cub is a plane that you can choose in that system as well.

[robert]

Lots of folks swear by the phoenix simulator. The super cub is a plane that you can choose in that system as well.

[hghost]

I use the Phoenix Flight SIM.....Great Sim...has free updates on New planes and Heli's and comes with a Real Spektrum 5 channel Transmitter you can use to fly your actual planes .

[robert]

The phoenix 4.0 simulator is remarkable! I've been putting in an hour or so each day using both my models, and some very challenging ones that I have no interest in ever actually flying. The skills that I have picked up very much directly transfer into the field. When you consider the hours that you can put in using your own transmitter on the system it would take months of flight days and thousands of dollars in repairs and replacement.

The hundred dollars spent on the system have paid for themselves in a matter of days.

I'm out doing loops and hammerheads with the super cub, and rolls and stuff I don't even know the names of with the t28 Trojan. Landings are run of the mill instead of a total gamble now.

My skills and confidence have skyrocketed as a result of the simulator. It's a matter of time until I get way too cocky and completely destroy something, but until then I'm enjoying every minute both on the simulator and in the air.

If you are on the fence about purchasing one, get off the fence and pull the trigger.

[hghost]

I have used the Sim allot myself, but I noted that the SIM is not at all like the actual planes they Simulate. Some may disagree but it matters not.
I must say the best part of the Sim use is to get orientation of the plane. Flying towards one self and getting experience with the transmitter movement and use and the movements on how they affect the plane while in flight.

But the cons of the Sim is simply the Simulator allows you to do with the planes that real life does not. Landing the Super Cub for example is almost automatic and little effort...however in real life landing the Super Cub is harder and is not automatic at all...and it takes allot of input and quick movement to get her perfect and unless you land off the field area it rarely noses over, real life even in a smooth surface it tends to want to nose over .

Also on aileron planes they fly so easy and turn so nice and do not roll....in real life that is not the case at all...little input on the controls can cause many ( War Birds for example )to go inverted pretty quick and do not turn so easy and nice as the Sim suggests.

I have found I enjoy the Sim to help me with the control stick movements and getting use to the transmitter and the recognition and orientation of the plane in flight, coming towards me and away and at angles...but I have learned pretty fast the planes on the Sim are docile compared to the real life plane, and if you get complacent and assume it will fly almost automatic like the Sim, your going to get in trouble real fast.

The best tool I have used to train and get far better experience is using the Champ as the Sim. It is smaller the wind blows it around and its High Wing design is near the Cub and other High wing planes so it's recognition and orientation allows one to get experience in flight.
With it's design it allows those mistakes without allot of damage and in real life situations you will find yourself in while flying, allows you to gain the knowledge to get through them easier and make the corrections .
Since the wind moves it around allot, it also allows you to make those corrections and stick movements you will need when flying the Cub and or other planes in those quick and sudden circumstances that arise with wind gusts and or those Oops , moments we all have faced.

Either way a Sim is great in some instances,especially when the weather does not permit you to actually fly , and if you crash you lose nothing and no repairs needed,.... the Con is it allows the flight most times to be to easy and makes you over confident when the actual plane does not handle so docile and automatic as it seems in the Sim, especially when landing or take off's.... SO, those little Champs seem to give you far better learning about orientation and recognition and actual real time flight characteristics you need in those winds and various situations that arise in the air, the Con with it is you can't fly if it's to windy and or the weather won't cooperate and you will have to make repairs if you do mess up to bad...most times the Cub can handle most all crashes, unless you hit a tree, or pavement or that sort of thing.

Which ever way you go you can't go wrong...only you can decide which is best for you and your needs.

I own the Phoenix Flight Sim and I own two Champs....I must say i have enjoyed flying the Champ more than anything...and will continue to do so, no matter what other plane i may fly and I will use the Sim on occasion to keep my fingers trained on the sticks...and go nuts and crash those Jets and Heli's just to have fun...and see how far away i can fly before i lose them....something else the Sim is good for , just easy simple goofing off at no cost .

[robert]

Fully agree hghost...totally fully agree. it's fun, it's good for sticks muscle memory, and it's different from the real thing.

Definitely influences the pilot to try something crazy, it's just up to the pilot if they want to actually try that crazy stuff with their planes.