what i think

[3dbasher]

well i've had my pheonix a couple of days now and overall i'm impressed its very good but..... there's i few things i think could be improved on the flight dynamics of certain models mainly the helis the fixed wing seem to be spot on!
In general the models seem to be a tad unrealistic on auto's as in some are an arse/don't and some float on and on.
I've noticed when 3D'ing tic toks just seem to hang there far to long not like a model does, can't seem to put my finger on it but knife edge seems a bit strange, also its very very difficult to bog the engine on some of them like there over powered, not flown a synergy before in real life but the one on the sim is good but not what i expected if true to life my rappy 90 is more snappy. also sorry to say Ade don't like the knight 50 much either! but the buzzard 50 is a good bit of kit.
Can you skip the head button on the deck on this sim? i tried it on the tarmac very gently and it just crashes
Setup of it was a piece of cake and didn't need to change hardly anything
Not slating it at all as i think its good just think it could be better

[Smoothound]

I've not tried real life autos, in Reflex I can auto to a fair degree of sucess, in Phoenix I've yet to get one even close to right

[robgt]

The tic-toc issue was improved from the original release with the 1.02 update - make sure you're fully up to date... It's a lot better than it was
You can fine tune knife edge performance - it seems ok to me - for a sim.

Yes, engine bogging can be hard - I think certain models have been made in a "favourable" manner - the Synergy is unrealistically powerful, for example.

Cyclic snappiness is lacking in the default settings, but again, you can tweak that so you can get the heli's to fall nose first at the floor and quickly snap them into a hover very low. Check out the frontal and lateral cyclic values.

You cannot button it in this sim - it just crashes.

You can certainly anvil auto a few heli's though (poor auto performance on some - better on others).

Cheers,
Rob

[robgt]

I should add that acrobatic autos are achievable on certain models - I enjoy flying the Synergy having tweaked it a little more realistically. It autos quite well, though still not like a real auto. Auto perfomance was improved in the sim update too - not perfect, but if you can auto on Phoenix and comfortably land a heli, you should definitely be able to auto in real life.

Cheers,
Rob

[3dbasher]

Yep its the lastest version... probably just need to fine tune it for me, i find myself flying the synergy the most too, cyclics feels a it numb for a 90 size ccpm machine.
I've been getting away with stupid things too that should stop the blades on a real machines. also i've found a few interesting qwerks! on the fixed wing side of things get in stable prop hang with the electric typhoon with the tail on the deck and chop the power and it sits there on its tail
also you can fly along flat out knife edge with the wing tip on the deck

[Ade_Law]

Rob, when i flew the synergy varient for the first time, i thought it was a bit over powered too. However having flown bob's one with the SZ with cline carb i can honestly say it has that much power!

so close its scary. Well done bob.

Ade

[robgt]

Oh well, fair play then
It seems to never bog down which I find hard to believe, but maybe I'm just too gentle on it

LOL
Cheers,
Rob

[ChrisB]

Just installed the 2 rex`s I like the 600

[3dbasher]

got the rex 600 on there that seem to fly like the reports bogs a bit in tic toks very like the real one... not that i'd know i've not flown one, but it is nice

[andylinney]

Well, just got my Phoenix - and yeah, ok, it is better than reflex - loving the N9 and the jet copter!!!