![]() ![]() Well known for its realism and the ability for customers to design their own models and even flying site scenery, AeroFly is the best selling flight simulator throughout Europe. It offers a realistic representation of flying a model, and plenty of variety of models and flying sites. AeroFly is also available here in the US, and its most current rendition is complete reworking of the program with more realism than ever before. The Multi-Pano options of the Golden Gate Bridge scenery let me fly the Robbe SeaBee park flyer from the San Francisco waterfront and a few minutes later….īe slope soaring above the Marin Headlands with a large-scale vintage ASK-13. The first sign of AeroFly5’s significant changes came as soon as I started it for the first time. Gone were all the familiar flying sites of past versions, replaced by new high-definition panoramic photo sceneries and Ikarus’s new 4-D virtual flying sites. ![]() Several of the photo sites offer Ikarus’s Multi-Pano technology, giving you the ability to fly from multiple locations within the same basic locale. For instance the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge scenery lets you fly from a pier along the city’s western waterfront looking up at the bridge, as well as a couple of locations in the Marin Headlands looking back past the bridge to the city in the background. The Multi-Pano option effectively turns each one of these sites in to several flying locations. The realistic CH-46 gave me quite a challenge while flying around the famous tufa tower formations of Mono Lake in California’s Sierra-Nevada mountain range. Flying the Sea Bee was also a lot of fun at Mono Lake. The 4-D sites offer near-photo realism combined with the ability to move throughout the scenery while flying. As before, you can still fly from the cockpit or from behind the aircraft in a follow-along mode. Flying from the cockpit or from behind gives you the chance to fly in and around the various scenery elements such as between buildings, through trees and to explore the sceneries with a AeroFly5 also brings you the chance to fly from beside your model or also while strolling along as if you were walking about the site while flying. Parker Mountain is well known as the home of RC dynamic soaring, and with a little practice I was soon carving circuits with this Kinetic 100. ![]() Yes, you can display your speed on screen, but humility prevented me from bragging. Let’s just say I won’t be threatening the big guns of DS anytime soon!īird’s eye perspective. The 4-D sites feature extreme attention to detail with animated features such as leaves moving in the wind, flowing water. These and other fine details make it very easy to forget that you are flying in a rendered environment instead of a photo-realistic scenery. The 4-D sites also allow you to adjust the time of day, moving the sun to suit your preferences. When you get too far away at the flying field a lost model is often the result. AeroFly5 features a binocular view to help you maintain orientation and bring it home. Other instrumentation shown is the transmitter stick positions, performance specs, speed and heading. ![]()
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