I'm still waiting on my big kit to arrive and was about to bug out and buy one of the windows based RC simulators opined ad nauseam. I'm a Mac guy period and although I have Bootcamp, Parallels, and VMWare (I do a lot of software development and testing) I avoid it as much as possible. This leaves the pricey Aerofly as the only choice. Well evidently Heli-X added multirotors in an update a month ago, and I've been flying the one available unit on the demo version for the last couple of hours with my Futaba hooked up. I've got to say, I'm really liking this right now.
From you guys who have flown the real thing, meaning the larger quads, I'd like to here your feedback on how it feels. A couple of things to note if you are not aware, the free version works for 10 min or so at a time then shows a screen to please register. You can keep flying after a few seconds wait. With the one included multirotor in the demo version there are two idle start modes, one has an auto-leveling FC, and the other is much more manual. I also noted the ability to turn on steady and turbulent winds which upped the challenge a bit in keeping this interesting. Some of the challenges and training scenarios seem a little light compared to other apps, but for the price and the fact that is does run natively on Mac OS X just rocks (though it is Java based).
Edit: I also found gain adjustment controls that I'm still trying to figure out. I'd like to make the auto leveling a little less perfect, and I think I may have it sorted out. You really can alter the flight dynamics a bit pretty easily.
From you guys who have flown the real thing, meaning the larger quads, I'd like to here your feedback on how it feels. A couple of things to note if you are not aware, the free version works for 10 min or so at a time then shows a screen to please register. You can keep flying after a few seconds wait. With the one included multirotor in the demo version there are two idle start modes, one has an auto-leveling FC, and the other is much more manual. I also noted the ability to turn on steady and turbulent winds which upped the challenge a bit in keeping this interesting. Some of the challenges and training scenarios seem a little light compared to other apps, but for the price and the fact that is does run natively on Mac OS X just rocks (though it is Java based).
Edit: I also found gain adjustment controls that I'm still trying to figure out. I'd like to make the auto leveling a little less perfect, and I think I may have it sorted out. You really can alter the flight dynamics a bit pretty easily.
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