RealFlight Trainer Edition 1.5 is now live! This substantial upgrade expands the available content and adds many features from our flagship product RealFlight Evolution. 1.5 is a free automatic update for all existing users.

RealFlight Trainer Edition is now based on DirectX 11. This will help a lot of people who could not run the software due to DirectX 9 compatibility issues.

An expanded roster of “Next Step” aircraft[www.horizonhobby.com] and airports in 1.5 further fulfill RFTE’s mission of training RC beginners. Trainer Edition supports your continuing growth as a pilot by unlocking those additional aircraft as you log more flight time. See below for a complete list. Also note that the Blade 330 S heli joins the list of base models, available immediately.

Along with more content come many RealFlight Evolution features. A few highlights:

• A brand-new user interface
  
• Adjustable wind
  
• 3D terrain airports (available after 4 hours)
  
• Additional camera modes such as first-person cockpit view and chase cam (available at 3D airports)
  
• Optional flight failures and setup failures, to help prepare you for things going wrong at the field
  
• The full complement of RF Evo on-screen Gadgets, such as configurable NavGuides (telemetry data) and a heads-up display
  
• Multiplayer, for flying with other RealFlight users online and even receiving remote instruction

Starting with this 1.5 upgrade, RealFlight Trainer Edition is built directly from the RealFlight Evolution codebase. This means all Evo changes and fixes that would affect Trainer users can readily go into RFTE updates as well.

The Trial Version of RealFlight Trainer Edition also receives this 1.5 update. However, its time limit does not allow for unlockable reward content.

As always, RealFlight Trainer Edition owners are eligible to upgrade to full RealFlight Evolution at a significant discount.

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Log 2 hours of flight time to earn the following:

Aircraft

• Blade 150 S
  
• Blade Eclipse 360
  
• E-flite Conscendo Evolution 1.5m
  
• E-flite Night Radian 2.0m
  
• E-flite Slow Ultra Stick 1.2m
  
• E-flite T-28 Trojan 1.1m
  
• E-flite UMX Conscendo
  
• E-flite UMX Radian

Airports

• Alpine Meadow
  
• Athletic Club

Log 4 hours of flight time to earn the following:

Aircraft

• Blade Fusion 360
  
• E-flite Commander mPd 1.4m
  
• E-flite Habu SS 50mm EDF
  
• E-flite Habu SS 70mm EDF
  
• E-flite T-28 Trojan 1.2m
  
• E-flite Turbo Timber Evolution 1.5m
  
• E-flite UMX Timber X
  
• E-flite UMX Turbo Timber Evolution
  
• E-flite Valiant 1.3m

Airports

• Alpine Lake
  
• Soccer Field

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How to Get It
Steam will detect the new version and automatically update RealFlight when it thinks your computer is not very busy. You can trigger the update manually if desired by completely restarting Steam. Right-click the Steam icon in your system tray and select Exit. Once everything closes, run Steam again, and the update should complete.

RealFlight Trainer Edition: Trial Version is updated to version 1.00.035. The full, non-trial version of RealFlight Trainer Edition did not experience the issue being addressed, so it remains unchanged at 1.00.034.

For some RFTE: Trial Version users, the software would run once, then crash immediately on subsequent attempts to run. Affected users should be able to run normally after updating to 1.00.035.

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Improvements/Fixes

• Fixes a startup crash that affected some RealFlight Trainer Edition: Trial Version users after running the software once

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How to Get It
Steam will detect the new version and automatically update RealFlight when it thinks your computer is not very busy. You can trigger the update manually if desired by completely restarting Steam. Right-click the Steam icon in your system tray and select Exit. Once everything closes, run Steam again, and the update should complete.