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Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Helicopters / September 2007Reflex XTR
Hi all (and fred), Any idea's what I might get for my Reflex XTR Sim with JR lead,it works fine with windows XP but not with Vista. Thanks in advance.. "Quiff Boy" I'm always happy if I get 65% of new value for RC stuff. The Reflex XTR has/is just going through a big update with new dongle that you have to pay for, so this may devalue it somewhat further. Midland Helis sell the old version for £100 at the moment. Good luck. > Hi all (and fred), > > Any idea's what I might get for my Reflex XTR Sim with JR lead,it works > fine with windows XP but not with Vista. > Thanks in advance.. I sold mine when I got phoenix, sold it on ebay and got £75 for it which I was quite pleased about. Rob > "Quiff Boy" > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> fine with windows XP but not with Vista. >> Thanks in advance.. > I sold mine when I got phoenix, sold it on ebay and got £75 for it which I > was quite pleased about. anything you miss after the switch? (thinking about switching) TIA Marc  SignatureSwitzerland/Europe <http://www.heusser.com> remove CHEERS and from MERCIAL to get valid e-mail Well to be honest I'm not a pro flyer so my thoughts wont be valid, I did find phoenix was less cpu dependent on my machine runs a lot smoother and I found set up and altering and understanding what I was doing easier on phoenix, but as for is it a better sim I cant tell if the physics are better. I started with csm 9 and I thought that was ok, it just more eye candy. :-) Regards Rob >> I sold mine when I got phoenix, sold it on ebay and got £75 for it which >> I [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Marc Hi Rob, What's being a "pro" flyer have to do with it? I think you answered Marc's question just fine! Very few of us can duplicate the abilities of folks like Curtis Youngblood, Alan Szabo, and many others. So what?! I can't come close to what they do either but I am competent within the limits of my current skill set and have helped many folks through the years that were advancing to my level. You just did too! For the record, I recently bought the Phoenix sim too. I had been using RealFlight 3.5. I like both but find the Phoenix flight responses to be a little more realistic, overall, and the graphics are easier to orient to, especially when the model is at a distance so I like the Phoenix better. Have fun & Fly Safe, Steve R. > Well to be honest I'm not a pro flyer so my thoughts wont be valid, I did > find phoenix was less cpu dependent on my machine runs a lot smoother and [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >> Marc >Hi Rob, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Have fun & Fly Safe, >Steve R. I started out with the old Skylark RC Heli sim back in the early 90s. I might have flown MAYBE 5 flights with the training gear on IRL. After taking about 12 years away from anything RC, I got back into it a couple years ago. My 1st purchase? RealFlight 2. I practiced on that until I could hover tail in comfortably then bought a new heli. No training gear required to hover. Regardless of the sim, it'll develop muscle memory so performing a manuever doesn't require any thought and those "oh s**t" moments are recoverable. I'm no Szabo/Kraus/Kim/Youngblood/Jetschin, but like Steve, I'm competent within my skill set and my sim time has saved more than enough helis to "earn" it's worth. > I started out with the old Skylark RC Heli sim back in the early 90s. Skylark?? Wow, I'd all but forgot about that one. I ran it for quite a while as I recall. It had dirt simple, block style graphics but it actually "flew" pretty good considering the technology of the day. Thanks for the memory jogger! :-) Steve R. Somewhere around here, I think I still have my Dave Brown simulator for my Commodore 64! That was back in the day when I had a DuBro Tri-Star, Kavan Alloutte II (sp), American RC Mantis (first heli kit I ever bought new), GMP Cricket... Then I started flying more modern stuff like the Kyosho Concept 30. The biggest improvement I experienced was when I first tried a gyro, what a difference! I think I'm getting old :-( RogerN >> I started out with the old Skylark RC Heli sim back in the early 90s. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks for the memory jogger! :-) > Steve R. > Somewhere around here, I think I still have my Dave Brown simulator for my > Commodore 64! That was back in the day when I had a DuBro Tri-Star, Kavan [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > what a difference! I think I'm getting old :-( > RogerN you mean you can fly without them :-) > Somewhere around here, I think I still have my Dave Brown simulator for my > Commodore 64! That was back in the day when I had a DuBro Tri-Star, Kavan > Alloutte II (sp), American RC Mantis (first heli kit I ever bought new), > GMP Cricket... Then I started flying more modern stuff like the Kyosho > Concept 30. The biggest improvement I experienced was when I first tried > a gyro, what a difference! I think I'm getting old :-( You're not old unless you have an original Huey Cobra and/or Kavan Jet Ranger with no Hiller control. I remember fitting my first ever gyro (Futaba) and taking it off the heli after the first flight. It took too much control away from the 3 bladed tail rotor I'd made for my Schluter Champion. It was a few months later that I thought I could get around that problem and make use of the gyro and the first thing I did was overdrive the tail rotor servo by 50%. The gyro worked pretty well after that (at least the heli would pirouette), but it still needed work on it to make it really useful. Thank f.ck we don't have those problems these days. SignatureBeav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19 >Skylark?? Wow, I'd all but forgot about that one. I ran it for quite a >while as I recall. It had dirt simple, block style graphics but it actually >"flew" pretty good considering the technology of the day. > >Thanks for the memory jogger! :-) >Steve R. I still have it somewhere.. As I recall it all fit on and would run from one 3.5" floppy disk. I wonder how it'll run on a 3+ GHz machine.. It ran ok on a 486-33 back then... :) >>Skylark?? Wow, I'd all but forgot about that one. I ran it for quite a >>while as I recall. It had dirt simple, block style graphics but it [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > from one 3.5" floppy disk. I wonder how it'll run on a 3+ GHz > machine.. It ran ok on a 486-33 back then... :) Hmmm, good question. There's been a LOT of changes in CPU's and systems through the years. Microsoft has "generally" tried to maintain backwards compatibility but that hasn't always worked out. If you find it somewhere, I'd be curious to see how well it does too! Fly Safe, Steve R. Just checking about your comment about 'vista'. If that is the reason for the sale then you might not need to. Reflex XTR will work with Vista, it's just the installer that doesn't. See here http://www.reflex-sim.de/reflex-sim/shop/catalog/faqdesk_index.php?faqPath=15_135 Trouble with selling XTR is that there is a new version out. The old style dongles will only work with software versions below 5.04. If you want to continue using software versions 5.04 and beyond then you will need to pay to upgrade the dongle. Trouble is, any potential buyer will need to then need to compare the cost of the second hand XTR plus the cost of the upgrade with the price of the new version. Cheers, Nigel Thanks for all the input. I'll try and get 50 UKP for it :-) > Just checking about your comment about 'vista'. If that is the reason for > the sale then you might not need to. 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