Phoenix - Better than I thought! Rave 450?

[fiercebadger]

After seeing recommendations on here from everyone, I bought a copy of Phoenix and installed it on my new laptop.

Blimey what a tool, I reckon it would have cost me about a grand in repairs in the first hour of crashes!

For anyone starting, I think this is a must, just to get a feel for flying a heli, its an awesome bit of kit.

One thing I would say though, is the Rave 450 that much better than the Trex 450/Blade 400, it just seems sooooo stable, is that true to life?

Phoenix - Get it, its awesome.

[MartinH]

Though Phoenix is pretty neat and very good I dont compare like for like as its hard to do I use it best for getting my orientations correct, learning to fly nose in, inverted since these are invaluable once you start moving through the heli ranks. But if only my 450 hovered like that in Phoenix , but this is the problem with it totaly fab as it is it doesnt get the 'ol heart beating when you take off . But in a nutshell I really really couldnt do without Phoenix.

[tiddler]

Lol Now you see why we go on about it so much

It is a great bit of kit isn't it.

And yes it is pretty accurate to flying the real thing, although no two helis tend to fly exactly the same, and as Satch says. There is no way Phoenix can make your knees tremble and your butt clench the way a real heli does

[Weebl]

I will give that a go, I have not tried the Trex 450, I normally go for the 600 as people say it is more stable but I have flown the Blade 400 as it is probably going to be my next Heli and I can hover it for a bit and even do limited manoeuvring, I do like to have the training gear on it at present though, otherwise I can see myself getting disheartened at ploughing it in so much