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Old 08-06-2018 | 02:51 AM
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Originally Posted by tedsander
Interesting that Phoenix has been discontinued by their only distributor - Horizon.
That’s a shame but coupled with the shrinking of the helicopter hobby it does not come as a huge surprise.

Also I have always been puzzled by their business model. Nice as it is that a customer never has to buy an upgrade, I have always thought it was cutting the potential market.

There are only so many RC helicopter modellers out there, and that has decreased significantly over the last few years. Only a proportion of those will buy a simulator. And once they have bought the simulator, the generous business model means that they can stay updated and never pay Phoenix another penny.

It just seems that the potential income would be reducing all the time until the point that it isn’t enough to sustain the business.

Surprised it survived this long to be honest.

Cheers,

Nigel