New model released:

New distributor:

More information on your nearest Phoenix distributor can be found on our purchase page

New update released:

New features

• New Model > Edit tooltip descriptions of attributes
• Added "At Idle Throttle" option for crash auto-reset - only restarts model if throttle is at idle after a crash
• New Thrust > Hand Launch Speed editable attribute
• Improved physics on ground bumpiness

Improvements and fixes

• Flight information panel now displays flaps state correctly
• Jetranger and Searanger tail geometry altered
• Sky orientation headings now match Wind Compass headings
• Fixed issue with wind-noise not pausing
• Can now add own transparent textures (e.g. glass) for third-party schemes correctly
• Fixed issue with combined elevator/aileron models
• Networked/recorded models reflect on water correctly
• Improved recording of water effects
• Improved rendering of water
• Fixed crash error when attempting to join a session heading
• Fixed issue with RV8 model
• Robinson R-22 is now 2-bladed
• Fixed minor issue with inflight tuning wheel readibility
• More information on transmitter connection warning
• Improved handling of missing DirectX components
• Improved playback of smoke effects

New model released:

New model released:

New model released:

New flying site released:

New distributor:

Elektro Modely (Slovak Republic)

We are pleased to announce that Elektro Modely will be taking over distribution of Phoenix R/C in the Slovak Republic.

More information on your nearest Phoenix distributor can be found on our purchase page

New model released:

New model released:

New distributor:

Strefa Hobby .pl (Poland)

We are pleased to announce that Strefa Hobby .pl will be taking over distribution of Phoenix R/C in Poland.

More information on your nearest Phoenix distributor can be found on our purchase page

New model released:

New update released:

New features, improvements and fixes

• T-Rex 450 PRO tail-rotor now breaks correctly
• Better model centering on binoculars view
• Objects do not leap as greatly from water after a fast dive
• Models no longer break on impact in Hover Training/Torque Training (excluding props & rotors)
• Larger models now start at correct height during torque training
• Fixed some rare issues with fuel running out & resetting
• BA609 now emits smoke correctly
• Water sounds now fade correctly with distance
• All tilt-rotor blades now break correctly on impact
• Added support for folding props
• Fixed issue with deleting the currently in-use control profile

New model released:

New models released:

	Continuing our release of new Horizon Hobby models to celebrate our partnership, the following models are now available for download: JR Vibe 500e Performance/3D electric helicopter E-flite 4-Site Performance/3D electric airplane These models are now available for download from your automatic updates list if you have version 2.5 installed. If you do not have version 2.5 installed, please download and install it now from our downloads page.

New models released:

	To celebrate our new North American, South American and Candian distributor, Horizon Hobby, we are now offering the first of a series of your favourite Horizon Hobby models for free download for all of our customers: E-flite Blade mSR Micro electric helicopter Parkzone Corsair Scale electric airplane These models are now available for download from your automatic updates list if you have version 2.5 installed. If you do not have version 2.5 installed, please download and install it now from our downloads page.

New distributor:

More information on your nearest Phoenix distributor can be found on our purchase page

New model released:

New update released:

New features, improvements and fixes

• Added new channel filtering for DX6i transmitters
• Fixed a rare stability issue with retractable landing gear
• Jetcopter tail rotor now breaks correctly
• Chinook now hotstarts correctly and functions correctly under autorotation training

New models released:

New model released:

New update released:

New features, improvements and fixes

• Added positive hovering stability functionality over 100%
• Added functionality for twin rotor models (i.e. Chinook)
• Night-lighting now functions correctly on Binocular view
• Model orientations now saved on exit when using layouts
• Schemes now support any texture files, including alternate rotor-blades, tail-blades and blurs
• Program will now run in Windowed mode for the first time after a program update to avoid possible firewall conflicts
• Russian manual added and Russian language option included
• Improved language selection screen
• Tweaked Blade CX2 and Swiss Lama Coaxial model parameters
• Aileron > Rudder mixing attribute added to Model > Edit > Mixing section
• Camera tracking functions better when manually zoomed in
• Editable attributes with long names fit better into Model > Edit lists
• Fixed an issue with some models dissapearing at extreme distances
• Fixed an issue with very small main simulator window sizes

New model released:

New model released:

Improvements and fixes

• "Export to external editor" issues resolved
• Save/Quit issues resolved
• Realistic Lighting issues resolved and lighting system improved
• Faster control response when editing complex flying sites
• Fixed some issues with sound system initialising

New update released:

Improvements and fixes

• Now loads multiplayer resources "in background" to reduce loading pauses during multiplayer sessions
• General decreased loading times
• Fixed user manual links
• Stored model positions issue fixed on Sandflats flying sites
• F16 Turbine flaps fixed
• Added Futaba Field Force 6 profile
• Fixed an issue with split-screen multiplayer mode

New model released:

New update released:

Improvements and fixes

• Fixed issue with rotor disks on Binocular view too visible
• Knight 3D attributes tuned
• Messenger now wraps chat text on resize, text no longer covered by scrollbar
• Fixed an issue with lowest quality shadow and rotor-blades
• Ultimate Biplane tipstalls less easily
• Some incorrectly rendered canopy insides fixed
• Improved accuracy of fuel-empty timer
• Hotkeys register conflicts correctly when assigning
• Hotkeys added to increase/decrease simulation speed (defaults to NUMPAD - and +)
• Layouts now saved and reloaded when exiting program
• Multiplayer automatically pauses simulation when another uses joins/changes model
• Program Setup > Physics > "Start rotors at throttle" option renamed to "Start engine/rotors at throttle" - now functions on fixed-wing and helicopters
• Model now break in hover/torque training correctly
• Aileron on onscreen transmitter now functions over multiplayer correctly

New update released:

Improvements and fixes

• Tuned collective response on all higher-performance helicopters
• Added "Advanced" section to editable helicopter attributes
• Failures fixed on multi-engine fixed-wing models
• TRex 700 Nitro rotor-head top added
• Keep Ground In View camera mode:
• Zooms faster
• Does not require "Autozoom" to be enabled to function correctly
• Fixed some minor issues with retractable undercarriage on lower-end computers
• Improved rotor disk transparency on lower-end graphics cards
• Fixed some minor shadowing issues on a small number of flying sites
• Multiplayer communications options:
• "Mute/unmute" now only applies to voice chat
• "Ignore/unignore" disables all communications with that user
• "Mute all users" menu disables all voice communication with all current and future users in the session
• Added "Change Spectate Pilot" hotkey - default is "N"

New update released:

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Special Thanks

We would like to say a special thank you to the following people for helping bring this update to release:

• Curtis Youngblood
• Duncan Osborne
• Mike Williams
• Ashley Davis
• Rob Turnbull
• Trev Burley
• Pete Ikusz
• All members of the Phoenix 2.5 BETA team

New Features

• Store model's current position for reset point - default hotkey 'S'
• "Throttle, Rudder and Elevator" option added to Torque Trainer
• Added ability to fly with tutorial recordings, and to "free-look" with your mouse
• Added ability to slow down or speed up tutorial recordings
• Added Cut/Restart Engine control for all model types
• Advanced control over helicopter governor speed using throttle position
• Assign a different control profile to individual models
• Sounds:
__ • More sounds of impact, collision and scrapes with environment
__ • New ambient environmental sounds
__ • Reverb effects in interior locations
• Auto-updates system now supports both retry and skip on failed downloads

Improvements

• Physics:
__ • Crisper, more responsive collective
__ • More accurate blade physics:
__ __ • Blade stops
__ __ • Spool-up times
__ • More accurate autorotation physics
__ • New more accurate helicopter governor system
__ • New more accurate helicopter rate gyro system
__ • Scale fixed-wing models diplay more accurate torque effects on takeoff
__ • F3A pattern planes trim corrected when inverted
__ • More pronounced roll effects when applying rudder to fixed-wing models
__ • Physics quality slider added for lower-end computers
• Sound:
__ • Selectable engine-type for all models
__ • All helicopter sound effects resampled
__ • All fixed-wing sound effects resampled
• Graphics:
__ • New rotor/propeller effects for greater realism
__ • Improved wakes and ripples in water
__ • New splash effect when objects impact with water
__ • New rotor ripple effect
__ • New streamer texture
__ • Streamer width scales with model size
__ • Helicopter rotor blades change with collective
__ • Training undercarriage materials improved
__ • Extra debris when a breakage/crash occurs
__ • New improved sunglow effects
• PhoenixUpdate:
__ • One-click update to the latest software version
__ • Now downloads in the background - fly while your updates download
__ • Better handling of failed downloads
• PhoenixOnline:
__ • New multiplayer engine
__ • Faster and less lag
__ • Improved connection reliability
__ • Voice-chat with selective muting, auto-voice-sensing and noise filtering capability
__ • Messenger widget for session management
__ • Improved session lobby with chat
__ • Pilots/training undercarriage now functions online
• User Interface:
__ • Numerous improvements and optimisations to the User Interface layout
__ • Resolution/refresh-rate selection simplified
__ • Ability to disable auto-reset during training modes
__ • Improved failures/fuel empty/crashed icons/display
__ • Minimise flight recorder to a smaller footprint, which autohides
__ • Training gear now appears under Select/Edit model screens
__ • Various editable attributes now enable/disable depending on other options selected
__ • Re-show help/warning messages using the Program Setup > General menu
__ • Menus now react to mouse-over correctly
• Languages:
__ • Czech language added
__ • Hungarian language added
• Updated manuals added for:
__ • French
__ • German
__ • Italian
__ • Portuguese
__ • Spanish
__ • Czech
__ • Hungarian
• Walkera 2401 and 2601 control profiles added

Bugs Fixed

• Disabled sound option issues resolved
• Issue with shift-look and binocular view fixed
• Zoom level now saved correctly when the "Reset Zoom" menu is used
• Streamers now function correctly when length is set to less than 10m
• TreeView controls now scroll correctly when expanding items
• Issue with inflight tuning fixed
• P-51 Mustang rudder no longer breaks on startup
• PhoenixUpdate: "Select all" does not select installed updates (unless shown)
• PhoenixUpdate now takes alternate "SETTINGSPATH" for users without a My Documents folder
• Fixed an issue with competition bomb scoring
• Left wheel on max 3d not textured correctly
• Error starting with window minimised fixed
• Issue fixed on fixed-wing models set to zero stabiliser/fin area
• Nightfly planes now all correctly have red lighting on the left and green lighting on the right
• Problems when variants folders when they do not exist
• Improved handling of driver issue with Intel 965 chipsets
• Binocular view now functions during a multiplayer session

New Models

• These models will be available from your Automatic Updates list once you have updated to version 2.5:

Align T-Rex 250 - 3D/Aerobatic electric helicopter

Rave 450 - 3D/Aerobatic electric helicopter

Outrage G5 - 3D/Aerobatic electric helicopter

Outrage 550 - 3D/Aerobatic electric helicopter

Protos 500 - 3D/Aerobatic electric helicopter

Huey UH-1H "Iroquois" - Scale IC helicopter

Zivko Edge - 3D/Aerobatic electric shockfly

Polikarpov I-15 - Scale electric biplane

Gambler .40 - IC aerobatic trainer

Cessna 182 - Scale IC airplane

Extra 300 - New colour scheme

Cap 232 - Updated model and colour scheme

Wot 4 Classic - IC aerobatic trainer

BA-609 - Scale IC Tilt-rotor

New Flying Sites

• These flying sites will be available from your Automatic Updates list once you have updated to version 2.5:

Lagos Rocks - Panoramic flying site

	Montebello Castle - Panoramic flying site
	Stockholm Bridge - Panoramic flying site

 

• Please navigate now to our downloads page to download this update

New distributors:

More information on your nearest Phoenix distributor can be found on our purchase page

Walkera transmitters now supported - 2401, 2601 and 2801 models

We are pleased to announce that the following transmitters are now compatible with Phoenix: • Walkera 2401 and 2601 (using MINI-DIN adaptor supplied with transmitter) • Walkera 2801 (adaptor required)

Please see our Support section for more information on which transmitters are compatible with Phoenix.