ESKY Web site?

[lbl25a]

Hi folks

Just bought myself a new Honey Bee cheap on ebay. I know that it will be difficult to fly but I tend to do things the hard way. I intend to upgrade to a bigger electric heli when I have got the hang of this.

Very impressed with what you get for the money these days. I used to make small free flight model planes and gave up before miniature digital proportional radio became affordable.

First Question. The manual suggests downloading a flight simulator from the ESKY web site but this seems to have disappeared. Any suggestions, apart from buying an expensive simulator.

[IMW]

http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index_e.html


It is called the FMS simulator and works fairly well......it does helis as well!!!!!!!

[lbl25a]

ESKY Web Site

Thanks IMW.

Now I need to get or make an interface cable.

Have seen instructions for the Walkera cable, is this the same connection as the Honey Bee?

[IMW]

I think that the leads are fairly generic and not tied to a particular model. Tried briefly with the one that came with the Esky but I work on computers all day and could not get motivated to spend more than 5 minutes on this......therefore failed and used my analogue joystick. Can't even remember what connection type it was or even where it plugged in!!!!!

[Dedcalm]

The walkera and esky lead specs are not the same, XTR leads use different pins, I have the pin out somewhere... will try to post the info here tomorrow.

Rob

[tattootroy]

i bought this for £20 whith the 4 chanel transmiter usb.. do you think this sim will help me to fly a real heli?

[Ade_Law]

i wouldnt personally waste my time with FMS. spend 80ukp on phoenix it will help you learn to fly anything and everything and help you improve your skills all the way through your life in models.

Ade

[Jamez]

FMS is by no means the world's greatest flight sim, but it will give you some idea of what is involved, but you will grow out of it very quickly.

[tattootroy]

yea true , i took a look at phoenix demo video and its way better . will buy it as soon as i buy a knight 50 . at the moment am using aerofly that i snatched off a torrent site wth the esky tx.

[Biggles]

yea true , i took a look at phoenix demo video and its way better . will buy it as soon as i buy a knight 50 . at the moment am using aerofly that i snatched off a torrent site wth the esky tx.

You pirate you!

[lbl25a]

It sounds like Phoenix is the way to go for more advanced flight but FMS certainly helped me to get to the hovering stage. The model of the Honeybee CP1 seems very realistic with this sim - it echoes the responsiveness and reaction to wind that I have found in reality with the CP2.

[osomanos]

yea true , i took a look at phoenix demo video and its way better . will buy it as soon as i buy a knight 50 . at the moment am using aerofly that i snatched off a torrent site wth the esky tx.

Hi, I was just wondering if you tell me how you managed this. I've just installed AFPD but the program is not recognizing my ESKY dummy controller.
Thanks for your help.