Flying the Phoenix
After ordering my Belt CP and doing some reading, I accepted all the advice and purchased the Phoenix Training Simulator.
It arrived quickly and I installed it onto my home 2ghz Pentium PC. It started up and all I had to do was calibrate my Esky transmitter.There is an excellent post in the Phoenix section about this http://www.heliguy.com/Forum/ftopic11535.php&d=yes?sid=8d68324faad001bf950849b103711f0c
As others have reported, I have had mixed success with this, it works fairly well but I sometimes get some twitching. I have also tried reversing the two little dip switches under the battery compartment. (http://www.heliguy.com/Forum/esky-hidden-switches-t9595.html) This seems to disable the ccpm mixing and works well although the idle up switch wont work. Which is not an issue for me at this stage. Just rember to put them back before real flying.
So after quite a few hours on Phoenix I have to say it looks and feels great, I had to reduce some of the visual effects to enable smooth running but the graphics are still very good.
I have got happy tail in Hovering and getting there with side in, and its great fun to relax and just fly around at the end of a session, I’m even starting to get it back under control and land afterwards.
How this will translate into the real world when I get the Belt out for its first flight, I will let you know.