Another idea for Poenix

[Cralis]

Get this inton the next release. It's going to make your sim the bets yet!

Failure simulation!! Baically, a toggle that the user can select certain failures that culd happen when buzzing about. Engine failue, belt snap, glitches etc.. The user can select what can fail, as well as the chances ofthe failure.

This would then give the person a more real way of practising autos and fast landings to save the heli. After maybe 5 seconds of the failure occuring, and red bar or something appears to indicate a failure, so that the pilot knows hat went wrong.

That would b AMAZING!!

Come on, it's a simple thing to add to Phoenix! Get it in there!!

[ChrisB]

realflight used to have this feature,you could make anything fail randomly

[Cralis]

Ah, might try that.
MS Flight Simulator has it, and it's pretty good. I think it would be very handy, and give a more real effect to flying.
Also, am I right in saying that there is no ground effect in Phoenix?

[Philimon]

Craig, do you live on this forum. Seriously, where do you sleep? lol.

Ground effect in phoenix? Hmmm, not sure. I thought so myself

Personally, I'd like to be able to have my engine cut out on me at a random interval so that I can practise my auto's from varying places. The standard auto training is a bit pointless, as one gets used to where it happens and what do do. Now, having to auto from an inverted metronome, now thats interesting!

[Cralis]

Ha!
Not even sure if an auto is possible with a pitch curve of -2 to +9... Do you need to be in Idle up?

As for sleep... who needs it??
Well, me, but I have a 20 month old baby who doesn't have a job yet, and she decides when it's time for the house to rise.

Listening to Ba Ba Blacksheep right now, on some Nursery DVD that I bought here. It's on repeat. I may kill myself.

[Philimon]

Auto's? Ideally, you should be in throttle hold. Your pitch curve will work find for it, although in an ideal world you'll have a -11,0,+11 pitch curve. The -11 are for those show-off's that do inverted auto's.

As you probably know, the little leccy heli's don't auto very well, as there is very little inertia in the blades.

Ba Ba Black Sheep? Didn't they ban that as being politically incorrect?

[Cralis]

Battling to work out how I can cut my engine in Phoenix. Is it a setting in Phoenix, or on the Tx? Trying these autos... Might need one one day soon, knowing me and belts...

[Philimon]

There is the auto training thing on phoenix that does the auto-thing. Another way is to program the throttle-hold feature on your radio and do it yourself.

Are you familiar with the throttle-hol concept?

[Cralis]

Nope. Not used that yet. I have a Hitec Eclipse 7.