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If I had bought this sim before I started flying my Hobbyzone Champ (no prior experience flying RC planes), I would have saved some money and frustration fixing the plane after numerous beginner crashes. Thankfully, the Champ is cheap to fix. But the faster/more aerobatic planes in my future are not. So I bought this sim.

More than anything, a sim will give you some experience in training your brain to fly an aircraft (helicopter or airplane), as control orientation is a learned skill and can really only come with some training and/or experience. It only takes once for a beginner to turn the plane around and learn that the controls for left/right are now right/left. The end result is usually the ground or a tree. And don't even get me started on learning how to fly a 4 channel helicopter/quad...

There seems to be two main top sim's out there right now. Phoenix and Realflight. Both are about the same price (~$200). Here's why I chose Phoenix 4 over Realflight 6.5:

1) More plane models that I would typically end up purchasing from brands that I know.
2) TONS of planes and helicopters (and a few quad's as well).
3) FREE upgrades for life. Never pay for the upgraded version of the newest software.
4) FREE downloadable extra RC models.
5) FREE extra downloadable flying fields. Both official and user created.
6) It comes with Spektrum DX5e controller. No, it's not as nice as the dx6i, but it's much better than the controllers that come with "RTF" kits. It's nice to learn on the controller I actually will fly with.

The physics in both games are pretty much spot on. If one was much better than the other I'd have that one over any features on my list above.

The graphics are pretty great. I run mine at "HIGH" setting on a Windows 7 2007 laptop with an Intel 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo processor with workstation Nvidia FX graphics. It's not meant for gaming by any means but this runs at 50 frames per second and looks great. So it should run fine on low-mid range hardware pretty easily. You can easily adjust the graphics to fine tune as well.

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