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If you've owned RealFlight 5.5 and upgraded to 6.0, did you feel there were enough good features to make it worth the upgrade price?

submikester

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Upgraded myself and the price was right to be honest but I still voted 'no'.

$50 upgrade is easy to justify but I am unimpressed. It's the same old same old.

I've had real flight since about version 3 I think. It is an okay simulator but I have never actually been 'impressed' by it. I'm not saying any other sim is better though because RF is the only one I have.

Things that irritate me:

The upgrade isn't an upgrade - it just installs a new version into another folder and then you have to go through reinstalling all your old flight packs.

It doesn't include that many new or interesting planes. The SBach is cool, there are a few more cool planes.

It does look better, the graphics are better the performance is better but the product isn't. $50 upgrade - sure I'll do that. New for whatever they are selling it for? No thanks.

Oberst

For me no. I'm tired of them continuing to upgrade. I bought my G4 brand new and bought all the addon packs and upgraded to G4.5. About a month later they came out with the G5. I did not call them for the free upgrade, I don't fly my rc planes in the cockpit.

I wanted a RC flight simulator- not a combat flight sim! I already fly "Rise of Flight" and "FSX" for a simulated flight, I don't care to be in the cockpit of RC aircraft. Looks like Realflight is trying to market more to the young crowd more so than make a more accurate flight sim.

Besides, I like the new Aerofly 5 better. To me also the Hanger 9 FS1 was a flop. IMHO


Pete

shford

My Feedback: (27)

I have had every version of Realflight from the beginning. Looking at what is offered in version 6; it seems mostly changes for helicopters. I have most of the scenery and planes that they are including with the sim and the mega packs. Even as Submikester stated, it is only a $50 upgrade, it just isn't "different" enough to want to make the change. I'll stick with 5.5

brentg269

My Feedback: (2)

The cost of the RF 5 upgrade was $99.00, So the 6 seems to be a fair price if you think the new features are worth it.
I have had Rf since 3.5 and bought full to 4.5 and then upgrade disk to 5..Lot of money for a sim. It seems like every time
I upgrade, The sim's frame rate slows down even more, I am all set on this upgrade. I have been active in the RF community for
a long time and it seems a lot of people are hung up on how the planes look on the ground and close up and RF listens by adding
all the eye candy it can. A sim is a tool to hone skills,or use when weather is not good, and learn the do's and dont's of RC flying
not to see how wonderful the plane looks on the ground. I dont get caught up in this stuff, most of the time when i fly my real
world planes they are 100 to 200 yrds away and even the crappy looking planes i have look good. I just bought Phoenix and I like
the looks and feel of the sim, The physics/editing are not up to the same as RF but I really like the pilots perspective in the photofield
better in Phoenix hope they keep improving their product and open up their sim to user content as well. Realflight is still at the top
of the heap as far as sims go, but I am sitting on a swaying fence with all the new releases like Phoenix and Aerofly.

GarySS

My Feedback: (13)

Question for the RealFlight community:
I've found the stock spec 3D examples in the current RealFlights are not very close to reality. Are there custom "inputs" as provided by the "community" at the central website that more closely mirror reality? On my old version 2 a spec set of inputs really made one of the 3D models perform. I haven't upgraded mainly because my computers can't handle the graphics of RF3,4,5,6, etc. I might buy better next time..... Thankx

davidbegg

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I am not all that interested in gimmicky features of Real Flight, the reason I updated to version 6 was to get improved flying physics. I believe version 6 is a noticeably improved over version 5.5 in this regard, with the planes acting more like the real thing in flight. I was particularly impressed with the improvements simulating the affect of wind turbulence on the plane. Also in a difficult to describe way, the simulated plane in flight feels more like a real R/C plane. (Possibly the improved flying physics showing up?)

I normally run Real Flight on the computer in my studio, but I recently reloaded version 3.5 onto my now rather elderly laptop to take along to a class of 9 to 11 year olds I was relief teaching for few days, that were studying ‘Flight’. (my elderly laptop will only run Real Flight version 3.5, not enough of anything in it to operate later versions ) The flight characteristics (flying physics) of version 3.5 were very rudimentary compared to the version 5.5, which was the latest version of real Flight I had at the time.

The simulation of model plane flight has improved immensely with the release of each of the new versions, and in my opinion this is reason enough in itself to keep upgrading to the latest version.

SigMan

My Feedback: (21)

i had RF2 a few years ago and then sold it after about 6 months. im thinking about getting RF 6. will i notice a big difference from RF 2 ?

davidbegg

Comparing Realflight version G2 to Realflight version 6 would be like comapring a Model T to a Mustang.

SigMan

My Feedback: (21)

wow. that much huh ? a box under the tree looks like it could be the right size. but i just never know about Mrs Clause.

davidbegg

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Yes I think things have just steadily progressed in the R/C simulator world. Where there may be only seemingly minor advances version to version, if you go back a few versions as I did with some kids at school recently, it really is quite a shock at the advances made and what we accept as the normal now. ( I am talking flight physics here not all the fancy stuff they put into the programs)

Cheers

David

‘I normally run Real Flight on the computer in my studio, but I recently reloaded version 3.5 onto my now rather elderly laptop to take along to a class of 9 to 11 year olds I was relief teaching for few days, that were studying ‘Flight’. (my elderly laptop will only run Real Flight version 3.5, not enough of anything in it to operate later versions ) The flight characteristics (flying physics) of version 3.5 were very rudimentary compared to the version 5.5, which was the latest version of real Flight I had at the time. ‘
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