martin_05 said:
I guess the real question might be: What would justify anyone spending money to upgrade?
In my book it is mostly about training tools. What little is available on RF 4.5 is lacking. There is a need for a lot more tools that can take someone from newbie to expert in an organized manner. You ought to be able to sit in front of this thing, go through 20 to 40 lessons and tests and come out a very good pilot. Another set of lessons and you are into aerobatics, or 3D, etc.
If you think that you can learn 3d with a plane or helie in "20-40 Lessons" you are sadly mistaken
ya right..... just a few more lessons and you are now a "3D pilot"!
maybe you should better familiarize your self with some of RF features before saying it is not capable of certain things
many that you are "complaining" about ......already exist!!!.....or can be edited in! .......or are not even really needed....
martin_05 said:
Want to practice inverted flight with a heli? Have a mode that facilitates this.
why would you need a separate mode for that?....just fly inverted and learn!!
martin_05 said:
How about landing approaches with a glider? Have a mode that allows you to focus on this. When you push reset it puts the model in final just where you want it so you can practice using spoilerons, crow or whatever.
you can already do this!....pick a plane take off fly around to your final
at the point that you wish to "start" from Push the "P" key...
now every time you hit the red reset button
that point is where you will start from every time(even in mid air!)
until you switch planes or select "Clear Position" under "Aircraft" in the RF toolbar
martin_05 said:
How about practicing the final half of a landing pattern with a motorized model? Same thing, push reset and you are back to your desired spot on the landing approach and you go from there.
Same as above!
martin_05 said:
Maybe the ability to have a pattern appear in air so you can follow it. Might be good practice for loops, rolls, etc.
There Already are "Direction Arrows" in the AP editor that you can set up to facilitate that
martin_05 said:
Someone mentioned winch and towing for sailplanes. I cast my vote.
thank you I suggested same in the first reply to this thread!
martin_05 said:
Include a spring with the kit to eliminate the ratcheting on the throttle stick. No good for collective pitch on helis. I took it apart and pounded the existing spring flat with a hammer. A lot of people might not know or be willing to do that.
there are many threads here in the forum that deal with that and none require a "Hammer" or a "Spring"
martin_05 said:
MS flight sim has really neat training modules where they have you go through gates
you can edit in "gates"
martin_05 said:
and they talk you through various control settings, etc. Nice to have something like that on RF.
RF does have an ability to show the virtual "trainers" sticks and other radio settings who talk you through "lessons" or
you can see a "live" persons radio in MP AND talk to or listen to them
martin_05 said:
The reason the lack of good training tools is so visible to me is that I am currently working on getting my ten year old son trained. This is when I realized that RF is lacking in this respect.
not really if you follow some of the suggestions above
RF is the best Program to learn RC in bar none!!
martin_05 said:
The other request is to PLEASE have a configuration mode where one can select if certain features are enabled or not, preferably with some sort of a text-based script. This applies to training. For example, I have seen how kids favor changing the viewing position to be within the airplane or behind the airplane. This has absolutely zero value for learning to fly real RC.
. Again already possible!....In the AP editor you can select which views are allowed or not allowed many things have "On\Off" Parameters if you know were to look!!
martin_05 said:
So, a real training mode where I can configure the flight sim so that it can't be turned into a video game would be fantastic. .
also already possible!....
That depends on how YOU use it AND....
how YOU EDIT the fields and aircraft that you use
for any particular flying or training purpose
but on the other hand....
Why does it matter to you so much
as to weather or not some one turns RF into a "Video game" if that's what someone chooses to do with a program that costs around $200U.S.? ....... it's totally their decision
and how does it adversely affect you if they do???? why do you care??