Some aircraft have different color schemes that can be chosen from the aircraft menu and nearly every component of the aircraft can be tailored to the user’s liking, allowing for experimentation of configurations. For a newer pilot, the aircraft information is interesting and educational. The selection of aircraft is broad, and each is accompanied by a brief overview, sometimes even including a bit of history and detailed specifications. After reading the first three paragraphs, it became clear that RealFlight 7.5 truly provides a model-flying simulation.Īlthough the software hides a plethora of configurable options within its menus, the Welcome Screen is indicative of the easy-to-use interface provided by the software. The manual carefully describes each piece of functionality in the software, from basic to complex. If you find you’ve created a great combination of aircraft and airport, you can save that configuration as a scenario to revisit.Īfter satisfying my initial craving for flying, I opened the digital user’s manual. With the same ease, one can choose any of the 120 aircraft to fly or one of the 46 available airports. Scenarios are pre-chosen combinations of flying sites (called “airports” within the software), aircraft, and weather conditions, and 36 scenarios are included. Two clicks of the mouse were all it took to find my way into one of RealFlight’s “scenarios” and start flying.

The is a true 2.4 GHz radio helps offset the cost of the software.

Wireless simulator control is convenient. After installing the software, I couldn’t wait to get into the air and RealFlight 7.5’s interface is intuitive enough that I was able to satisfy my craving right away. The Installation Guide recommends that new owners become familiar with the digital user manual available from within the software, and I couldn’t agree more, but more on that a little later. My review package was the RealFlight 7.5 Flight Simulator with the Tactic TTX610 radio-a fully-functional 2.4 GHz, six-channel Tactic transmitter that can be used with an actual model! An included USB receiver allows the computer to receive a signal from the transmitter wirelessly for use with the simulator. When I got the opportunity to review Knife Edge Software’s newest edition to its 15-year-old family of flight simulators, RealFlight 7.5, I hoped it would prove the perfect way to get my thumbs back. I consider myself a rookie pilot and as my third plane, I think that jet will be a handful for rusty thumbs that were frozen all winter and didn’t do as much flying last summer as they could have. Read the full article in the July 2015 issue of Model Aviation Digital.Ī long Midwest winter and an EDF jet given to me late last flying season has me getting the urge to get back into the air. Sharpen your skills with the same SLT transmitter you take to the field

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