Release Information

RCFS is a project started by me (slowcoder) to tackle a couple of things that got me annoyed when I started flying RC Helicopters. The things were:
  • The simulators were only available for Microsoft Windows(r)
  • The exorbiant price
  • The overall quality and support of the software


    • So, having done quite alot of 3D development a while back, I decided to see how difficult it would be to get a basic simulator working. Turns out it took about two weeks to get it working and matching the visual quality of the commercial simulators.

    So, here it is. A free and open simulator.

    Currently the simulator has the following things implemented:
  • Transmitter interface via audio-in (PPM decoding)
  • High quality OpenGL graphics
  • Ability to import and use .mod files from Reflex XTR(r)
  • Supports SGIs MultiPipe for simulation immersion
  • Newtonian physics


    • This is not implemented yet, but is planned to be:
  • Rotary wing aerodynamics
  • Rigid body dynamics
  • Proper user-interface
  • Support for other PPM dialects and possibly PCM decoding



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