First Person View simulator - Found it!

I wrote a few posts ago about my fruitless search for an RC simulator with an FPV mode. RC simulators are doubtless very popular these days and with good reason. I have been searching for an FPV simulator for those same good reasons and I've finally found one!

The simulator is called AeroSIM RC and its fantastic. It offers full FPV mode with an OSD and even head tracking. Of course it also works with your RC Tx through the buddy port like all of the other simulators out there.

I've ordered some SVideo to composite video adaptors to allow me to plug my goggles into my PC and fly FPV from my desk (with my real RC Tx, my head tracker and an OSD on screen)! I can't wait to try this out!

The graphics are based on Google Earth images and AeroSIM comes with a system to create your own scenarios based on your favourite locations, although the process is quite complicated and so far I've been unable to get this to work on Windows Vista.




The graphics aren't at the photo-realistic level that you might have come to expect from programs like Phoenix RC but they're not bad and the physics are just as important in a simulator - for my money the AeroSIM RC simulator is spot on in that respect.

There's a two minute playable demo on the AeroSIM RC website so you can give it a try and make up your own mind.

AeroSIM RC comes with plenty of different aircraft to fly and there are a few game modes to play (fly threw hoops, score points by hitting birds, etc) if you get bored of practising your circuits.

You can also fly the plane from the old fashioned line of sight view or from a chase plane, etc. as well.

The guys behind AeroSIM RC promise to keep building the software and adding new features and updates will be free for life. Sounds great!