Pheonix Suggestion

[Sesame]

I had a thought and I was just wondering what others thought about it, as I know how great the Pheonix team are at adding stuff the their already great product(ok ass kissing over)

The thought I had was for a background where you couldnt crash. basically have a plane background with spots or something on it but with no ground. The idea of this is so that you can practice things like your chaos etc. without having to keep resetting and spooling up.

The idea of the spots dots or logos on the background is so that using the physics the background can move in the direction it would move normally so when spinning around and around you can see if your dropping rising or moving one way or the other.

Ive not sent anything to Pheonix cos I was just wondering what others thought of the idea and whether it was worth mentioning to them.

[Bruinbear]

It would hardly be realistic, so how would it really help ? You really need to try and keep your practice session true to life, but at least you get a large repair bill when it all goes pear shaped !

[Boggy]

i think it sounds good Tony. i assume you mean the heli stays in the center of the screen and the background moves ,so you can perfect the stick movement before trying it out on the sim or for real?

btw if your sick of crashing slow down the time it gives you aaaaaaages before you splat the deck!!

[Ade_Law]

hmm a chaos training tool

same as the hover trainig but a little higher and further away you could have options for holding height, position fore/aft and left right. and a slider that you can disable to control piro rate/direction or use the stick. but it allows the model to flip in any direction.


could also have a stick training tool....

one of the problems with chaos is getting the stick timing and nice circles the right size. common problems are people using too much cyclic stick and just not getting the timing right.

its a screen with a crosshair in it. then you have a dot which you have to follow with the stick then there is a dot that is your stick position. you could get some sort of % accuracy dependant on how far off the dot you are...

this would be great for training the fingers without having to worry about which way up the model is.

Ade

[Boggy]

thinking about it ade.. just a single colour background would work. (moving may give you motion sickness!!!)

[helinut]

I like the sound of it as well.
Cant get my head (fingers) round chaos or piro flips even on the sim, so anything that helps me increase my limited repetoir is a cracking idea.