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Computer Flight Simulators > Reflex vs. Phoenix
 
 
DDwaneR
Heliman
Location: Huntington, WV-USA

The Demo

I'll wait for their DEMO.
04-23-2007 Over year old.
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Yug
rrProfessor
Location: Niatirb Taerg

I just told you how you can watch the demo flights
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Tom Hall
Heliman
Location: Sacramento, CA USA

I wonder if Microsoft will allow me to demo the new Vista and all the applications with it.

Tom Hall - could not resist
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Barney
Key Veteran
Location: Inverness Scotland

Dwane...STOP SHOUTING
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Tom Hall
Heliman
Location: Sacramento, CA USA

Hey Barney!

Check out my post reply to subject "phoenix online multiplayer?".

I took a few screen shots for Pete, so he could get an idea how much fun we are having with PhoenixRC. Will47 is a show-off, wish I could fly that good.

Tom
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Adey_Law
Senior Heliman
Location: Bournemouth, UK

nice to see the trolls out in full force this evening always makes entertaining reading.

The trouble is theres no arguing with some people. We all know the demo is pointless as they arent going to allow you to use the tx with the sim for copyrite protection reasons. so all your going to get is a bit of software to watch vids.

all thats going to tell you is that your PC is gonna run it. something the minimum spec will also tell you in just a few lines of txt!

if they dont want to buy phoenix because they cant be bothered to go to their LHS and try a full version rather than watching some vids on a demo version thats their loss :-)

Ade
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Pelos
Senior Heliman
Location: Bizkaia (Spain)

I guess anyone can shout a loud as they want here...

Just to contribute to this little war (we could be flying instead), in my PC reflex has (version 5.04 now, but also 5.03) better performance than Phoenix. Both of them work ok (no jumps, etc) at full screen, max relolution supported by my monitor and all features activated, but in window mode Phoenix has a high delay in response (near 1/2 second, what makes my colective management in hover seem what it was when I started 3 years ago). I must admit that reflections in the models are something refles does not have to calculate and a cool feature when the model is near.

Some more: RCFan, when you say otrer scenes (no photo), I admit that the reflex one is poor in compared to G3, but there's no rendered field in Phoenix. Why 3.5 points?.

As I alredy said, for me both are very good.Not tried G3, neither Aerofly, wich we all seem to forget.

Is there a life outside the sim?
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
bilbo
Senior Heliman
Location: Boston, MA - USA

I agree that DDwaneR clearly has an axe to grind, but I also think it would be useful for Phoenix to provide a demo, even if it just allowed one to play recordings. I don't really agree that reading the minimum specs on the Phoenix website is a good substitute for being able to run the program on your hardware. Sure, if your computer is way above the specs then you can be quite sure it'll work, but if your computer is just at or below minimum specs, or just different, then it's quite reasonable to want to try a demo. I would guess that the great majority of potential customers don't have a hobby shop near them which can let them try Phoenix, so saying
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if they dont want to buy phoenix because they cant be bothered to go to their LHS and try a full version rather than watching some vids on a demo version thats their loss :-)
isn't really helpful.

For instance my friend has a laptop which is quite a bit below spec in the video card department, yet runs Phoenix fine with some of the quality settings turned down. On the other hand his desktop machine, which is seemingly closer to minimum specs, doesn't run it well at all. He wasn't about to go buy a new computer just to run a sim, so he would never have bought Phoenix if I hadn't been able to install my copy on his computers to try it. Since I was able to let him try my copy, he did end up buying it.
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Yug
rrProfessor
Location: Niatirb Taerg

Aerofly, I haven't forgotton it. I found aerofly so unreliable as there were issues with OpenGL on all machines I tested it on.
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
JasonD
Heliman
Location: san diego

Does anybody still fly Dave Brown's simulator 2001. I have to say I still get a kick out of it. Airplanes fly pretty good, the helicopters not so good, but good enough.

I like the little simstar box they use for controlling your aircraft. Also doesn't take very powerful computer to run.

Jason
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
RCfan
Key Veteran
Location: Longwood, FL USA

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Some more: RCFan, when you say otrer scenes (no photo), I admit that the reflex one is poor in compared to G3, but there's no rendered field in Phoenix. Why 3.5 points?.

Wasn't referring to rendered, rather the ability to have a dynamic environment, as in water. PxRC seems to have better ground simulation than either Reflex or RF, although Reflex is close behind. The water landings are simply superb in PxRC, but it needs some work to feel right.
04-23-2007 Over year old.
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Barney
Key Veteran
Location: Inverness Scotland

Hi Tom..I spotted the screenshots. It really gives me a kick seeing your posts these days...nice to see your enjoying yourself and able to share with others.
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Pelos
Senior Heliman
Location: Bizkaia (Spain)

I aggree with that, RCFan

Is there a life outside the sim?
04-23-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Yug
rrProfessor
Location: Niatirb Taerg

I've always wanted to see the clouds drifting across the sky and it would be nice if the ripples in the water could be made to move somehow; perhaps even the odd bloke wandering across the field or beech.
04-24-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Pelos
Senior Heliman
Location: Bizkaia (Spain)

C'mon, if they make the sims too realistic, we wil have to put an umbrella near our computer

Is there a life outside the sim?
04-24-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Barney
Key Veteran
Location: Inverness Scotland

Thats just to far YUG

next thing you will be looking for will be the parts to arrive in the post...That and trying to hide your latest visa bill
04-24-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Yug
rrProfessor
Location: Niatirb Taerg

How about a voice channel so that rather than typing and crashing, we could actually speak - bit like a conference call.
Mind you, this would imply a degree of multilinguality. Sadly, as is the english tradition, I only speak english, we're lazy bastards compared to most european countries where english is a 2nd language and usually spoken very coherently. I find the english attitude to learning other languages quite embarresing, but thats life I guess

How about a virtual tutor - a simulated JK, CY or AS turns up (with or without trousers on) and tutors in flying techniques ?
04-24-2007 Over year old.
 
 
menace
Veteran
Location: Sydney, Australia

http://babel.altavista.com/tr

it might b a start

!boo!
04-24-2007 Over year old.
 
 
Yug
rrProfessor
Location: Niatirb Taerg

Ciò è fredda. Come circa una scanalatura di voce in modo che piuttosto che scrivendo ed arrestandosi, possiamo realmente parlare - morso come una chiamata di congresso. Seli occupi, questo implicherebbe un grado del multilinguality. , come è la tradizione inglese, parlo tristemente soltanto inglese, siamo bastardi pigri confrontati alla maggior parte dei paesi europei in cui l'inglese è una seconda lingua e parlati solitamente molto coerentemente. Trovo l'atteggiamento inglese ad imparare altre lingue abbastanza che embarresing, ma la vita che dei thats indovino Come circa un insegnante privato virtuale - un JK simulato, CY o COME le girate in su (con o senza i pantaloni sopra) ed insegnanti privati nelle tecniche di volo?

I've probably offended someone now
04-24-2007 Over year old.
 
 
helitroll
Senior Heliman
Location: Southlake, TX

Phoenix

I far prefer the flight characteristics of Phoenix. I have owned Dave Brown on PC, Realflight starting with version one and Reflex. XTR will be on my backup computer at work. I have already managed to correct some flaws in my flying. If someone comes up with a sim that works better, I will need sunscreen and sunglasses.
05-14-2007 Over year old.
 
 
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