RotorheadBob
Senior Heliman
Location: Wash DC Metro Area
| I just bought RealFlight G4 and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed in it. My complaints don't have anything to do with performance.
The first issue I had are with the layout of the switches. The flight mode switch is backwards. The the normal flight mode is now closest to you (switch forward), the idle up 1 is in the middle, and idle up 2 is furthest away (switch rearward). Why change that in G4? That's almost universal. I don't know if that function can be reversed or not.
The Throttle hold has been moved to the front of the TX case where the rotating wheel for the landing gear/flap knob was at on the older controllers and vice versa. Why move after all these years?
I know I can use my radio, but I'd rather just use the Interlink Controller. I'd use the older one from G3 if that works. I haven't tried that yet.
The second thing is major change to my favorite feature in G2/G3, a feature called the Look at Ground view. I can always see the ground when I use that view. That feature is still there in G4, but works differently. Despite the name, the ground is not always in view in G4.
Maybe it's just a tweak in the software, if it is and someone knows how to change, please let me know.
Maybe it's me, but the helicopters seemed to fly a bit differently. I know out of the box, the trims where way off. I fixed that, but they still felt strange.
One thing does have to do with performance, but it's minor. With the water based flying fields, my PC is not up to it. It uses a somewhat slow Intel Dual 1.8 processor with a rather slow video card. I was getting 18 frames per second; too slow to fly models in that mode. When I flew at a photo field I was getting over 100 FPS.
I'd love to hear other comments on it. I've been using RealFlight since it came out and it's been my sim of choice.
Rob |
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