General Features
Welcome Screen
Comes up right after you’ve launched RealFlight. Options include:
- Tip of the Day — Offers you new and better ways to use RealFlight.
- Shortcuts for selecting new flying sites or aircraft, your current favorites and new aircraft/flying site combos.
- Built-in video player — with updated videos on essential flying skills
Smart Binocular Vision
Activates when your aircraft reaches a set distance and fades away when it’s not needed.
Enhanced NavGuide
Powerful new editing tools let you customize the NavGuide to the way you want to fly. There are fast, easy ways to add, delete or modify what you see onscreen or restore the NavGuide to its original factory settings.
Onscreen Camera Controls
With onscreen camera controls, you can add or move cameras without leaving the screen — or using a menu.
Water Takeoffs and Landings
Select a seaplane or float-equipped aircraft, and you can turn ponds, lakes or oceans into your own personal runways.
Night Flying
Orient your flight to lights on the field below. Test your skills at the nighttime 3D Obstacle Course or check out the 3D Nighttime Carnival.
Blade Stop Autos
A risk-free way to learn how to bring a heli that has lost engine power in for a safe landing.
Overhead Site Map
Lost? Overhead superimposes a site map over the terrain, showing your location and the location of the runway.
AccuModel™ Aircraft Editor
Change the wingspan, modify airfoils, convert from glow to electric, alter the trim schemes and more. Tabbed dialogues make onscreen editing easier to access.
FlexiField Flying Site Editor
Use FlexiField to accentuate the realism of the razor-sharp detail of the PhotoField™ or the over 5,000 square miles of TruLife Terrain™ found in the 3D flying sites. Add buildings, trees and other objects to add lifelike details.
Safety Alerts
Provides a checklist of safe flying practices you should follow when flying your actual R/C model.