Pelos
Senior Heliman
Location: Bizkaia (Spain)
| I guess they have made a bet. They can win or loose, but i liked the idea from the first time I read what Reflex was going to bring out. So I made my own bet too with their product.
The design is not perfect, but not as bas ad it may seem by the photos, and with the transmitter module attached sure will have a more traditional look. I'm beginning to feel really comfortable with it and only wonder how would I manage to actuate the optional switches if they were installed. Their positions dont seem very handy. I will install all them ass soon as they're available, although they won't be of any use until the next "steps" are available.
Their idea is not using your regular transmitter for the simulator, but use the simulator controller to fly your models. It may sound strange to many who alredy have a transmitter, but think about the people that is just beginning this hobby, and iVol has a market there: they can buy a simulator, with a controller cheaper than most decent transmitters, and continue using the same controller later to fly their models buying just the transmitting module/receiver for it.
I'm only speculating here, but I think Reflex team's idea is this:
You use the computer to program the transmitter (mixes, functions, switches...) instead of doing it directly in the transmitter.
This has two advantages that I can see:
1- you don't have to buy a very expensive transmitter like the wonderful ones from futaba. They are expensive because they have an advanced programming interface integrated into them, while the iVol programming interface will be a software in your PC, so the hardware in the iVol itserf can be more "simple" and therefore, cheaper. And you can still, in theory, have the same or even better funtions.
2-If you think just a little about it, the flexibility that keeping the programation out of the transmitter itself brings is (or can be) unlimited. Taking it to the limit(I'm again speculating here), you could define not only mixes, functions... but even the number of channels to use, the signal encoding method... Of course, for that the receiver must be programmable just like the iVol.
Again I repeat that I'm speculating. don't know if any of the things I imagine as posibilities will be really possible with the module/receiver they have announced for this summer.
I think that is what is going through their minds (there's a video of Wolfgang in the Nuremberg thread where he explains their "vision" )
Is there a life outside the sim? |
) I wondered what would be the policy of Reflex incase you want to have a "backup" iVol, like many people do (for competitions...). Having the interface for the simulator integrated in the iVol the only way to have two iVols I'm afraid that will be to purchase the whole product (iVol+Reflex) twice (in fact, I have yet the old interface; I ordered the whole product, so for me would be a matter of upgrading the old interface to have another iVol if i need it).
