I just recently purchased a Phoenix sim to try and get some more flight time in where I don't have to wait for weather or parts. However, upon flying the Blade 400 using the DX6i settings from Horizon Hobby, the heli is almost unflyable. I'm all over the place. I could probably fly my CPP2 and 400 on separate controllers at the same time more easily than I can fly this the 400 in this sim. Does anyone have any tips and tricks on setting up the sim and the radio to work more realistically?

If the Blade 400 is going to be the primary model you fly. You'll have to make changes in the TX to tame it down. If you try to fly a different model, the setting in the TX may or may not work on a different heli, as far as control or response. Best to set it up for the Blade 400 in your case. Then for other models, I would edit it's profile.

Go to Model in the upper bar, click on Model, then click on change. Select the model you want to fly. Say Trex 600, click on that. Go back to model and click on edit. In that window you can make adjustment to that model and not to the TX.. It's still a lot of trial and error, but it works. Once you save it to the system, you won't have to change TX settings everytime you change model types. See attached picture of edit window.

Dave

Ok, I see. The 500's and 600's aren'tterribly bad. Seems all the 450's are twitchy as hell.

I think I got you on the right track. Now it's just making all the changes to your liking. You can make any of the model types fly very tame or aggressive. It really doesn't take that long to change things, once you get the hang of it.

I still need to figure out how to tune properly to achieve that. Here's another issue I ran across, I can autorotate all the heli's I've tried except the 400. I hit the THold and the blades just stop and it drops. I'm still using the same settings in the radio that I was using so I'm baffled as to why it doesn't work on the 400. Makes me glad I didn't try it on my real one.

I tried the Blade 400, Trex 450, 500 and 600 and auto rototation works fine on all of them. You may want to go into the edit programm and click on default, to reset everything.
If that doesn't do it, I'm at a lose. Make sure your system is updated too.

Just go into the editor for the B400 and browse around, start with the "Fine Tuning" tab at the top of the page. You can make expo changes, motor changes, just like the real deal.
Dave

patryn, I read your thread went into the phoenix with eflite 400 went to the editor changed expo on aileron, elev, and rudder to approx 65% nice place to start, calmed it way down. Copy it. Check it out continue doing this til you get it the way you want it. Copy all your aircraft or helis this way, no messing with tx, Mike Scott, [email protected]