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Old 08-24-2005 | 11:25 AM
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HABailey
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Default RE: Flight characterists and Simulators

Thanks for the link.

I guess what I was really looking for wasn't which one was the best overall, just generally if the physics in these simulators are accurate and closely resemble real-life especially over a range of aircraft. For example, will the stall characteristics be the same in the simulator for an Avistar Select as in real-life.

Part of the reason I ask is that I purchased a Nexstar select which came with an early version of RF. In the simulator, during take-off, the aircraft will yaw to the left requiring right rudder to correct, even while taking off at full throttle. However in real life, my experience so far has been that at full throttle, it will yaw to the right instead. So the simulator and the plane's flight characteristics aren't exactly matching up.

The only reason I was asking if different simulators have different physics was in case some were more arcade-like so as to avoid them. And also to find out if what is experienced in the simulators in general can be expected to happen very closely in real-life. If the physics is basically the same regardless of the simulator then other features will be more important and probably more dependent upon personal perference. But the physics is really the only thing I'm really concerned about.