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- From: nebres@iftccu.boeing.com (Dan Nebres)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Heli flight simulator
- Message-ID: <3240004@iftccu.boeing.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 18:37:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.133623.1@pa881a.inland.com>
- Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
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- / iftccu:rec.models.rc / schiewer@pa881a.inland.com (Don Schiewer) / 10:36 am Nov 6, 1992 /
- For those helicopter people, (I don't fly)
- I saw a neat helicopter flight simulator at the Chicago Hobbie
- show. The novel thing was that they wired an interface right
- into a real helicopter transmitter. I did not try the demo, but
- assuming the simulation is good, this would be a good way to save
- money (in terms of crashes) while learning to fly your heli...
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- This is probably the heli simulator - Areochopper by Ambrosia. I am
- doing some beta testing on the PC model. It's pretty nice since
- almost all the variables can be programmed in (ie. wind, pitch, transmitter
- gliches, etc.) The transmitter is not a real helicopter transmitter, but
- it is made by Futaba and does look and feel like the real thing.
- Ambrosia has had other models out for the Apple and the Amegia. This is
- also an Airplane/glider simulator too.
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- dan
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