ORIGINAL: jerusha
i am looking into bying an rc flight simulator and was wondering which one to buy. i am completely new to sims. i know i will probably get 7 different answers to this question because each person will like or dislike certain things. physics are the most important to me. do the planes perform how they should or is it completely different than flying in real life. also i dont want something that looks completely unrealistic.
I've been flying RF3/3.5 for a year now. I've got a few of airplanes that are in the sim. I found that to exactly match a couple of them to the sim, I needed to edit the sim's airplane. It was relatively easy to do in the sim. But did take a bit of adjusting the amounts. And a couple of airplanes seemed to fly the same in the sim and in the real world.
It appears to depend on the airplane. On whether or not your airplane flies like all it's brothers, and whether or not the sim pegged that one model.
You're having to match up your specific copy of that airplane with what the software developers produced in an attempt to match their sim up with their specific copy of that airplane. And darned if that potential for disaster didn't work out very good for a couple of my airplanes and real close for a couple of others of mine. Keep in mind that the good sims provide a way for us users to match 'em up.