I have the Real Flight G2 Lite. I posted a queation on this and got some excellent replies. I can now get the trainer off the ground, and can even get it down once in awhile although I never seem to know where it's going to be. I have set it to look at ground but have only been marginally successful with this. 90% of flights end up crashing with a thud. Will the upgrade to full G2 help any? I am doubtful that if I cannot master this SIM I will never be able to fly even with help. God I hate it when those SIM guys laugh.

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Deereret,
You'll just have to keep at it. You've already made progress from the last time you posted about it, so....

Remember too, that with an instructor you'll get immediate, verbal input when you're making a mistake, and advice on how to correct for it.

When trying to learn on your own, even with a Sim, you can keep repeating the same mistakes without even knowing you're doing it.

Good luck,
Dennis-

Don't worry too much about having trouble lining up w/ the runway on RealFlight....the lack of peripheral vision in the monitor makes it harder than lining up in real life. I don't see how upgrading to the full G2 will help anything. The sim will help with basic control inputs and left-right reversal (and learning new stunts later on), but you need to fly for real w/ an instructor. FWIW, i've heard from at least one person that can't land at all in the G2 sim (because of lack of peripheral vision), but has no probs flying/landing any RC plane in real life.

I have the full G2. Correct me if I am wrong, but from reading the documentation it seems the only difference is that the full G2 has the events like limbo?

Anyway, even with look at ground set, it is still hard to get the correct orientation for landing on the sim. My landings in the sim are much more wild than in real life. Think of the sim as supplemental to real life instruction. As someone has set in their signature, the sim will not tell you when you are doing something wrong and will let you keep doing it. If you bank and yank at the field, the instructor should say something to you.

I didn't get G2 until after I had soloed. I just used G2 to increase my confidence, and to practice my manuevers. I practiced what I was taught at the field. Level turns, etc. And the cross wind training was good. Now I just have to have the wind shift 180 degrees like it does at the field!

So, like everyone has said, don't worry about how your flying on the sim compares to flying at the field. You get more visual clues at the field than you do on the sim. Try flying straight and level on the sim without a horizon reference. How do you actually know you are flying straight and level? Use the sim to practice, but practice what you have learned from your instructor.

Thanks all I'll keep plugging away and just land where I can. Is this a good site or what!!!

In the views menu, hit the "Look at Ground" check mark. You can then keep track of the ground and can hit the runway every time. It turns off the auto-zoom..... (well, modifies it) and the ground will always be the bottom of the screen with the aircraft centered. Youmay find you need ot scale up the model.... don't scale it above 2X or it starts looking like its in slo motion and perspective gets wierd.