Video: Redbird’s VTO Helicopter Simulator

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Key Takeaways:

  • Helicopter simulators are exceptionally challenging to create due to the complex flight dynamics, particularly the ability to accurately model a hover.
  • Redbird has announced a new VTO (Vertical Take-Off) simulator, claiming to have successfully overcome these long-standing modeling difficulties.
  • The new Redbird VTO simulator was introduced and demonstrated at Sun 'n Fun.
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There’s a reason you don’t see many helicopter simulators. Helicopter flight dynamics are difficult to model, and modeling a simulation that can hover is a challenge. But with it’s new VTO simulator, Redbird says it has done just that. At Sun ‘n Fun, where Redbird introduced the VTO, the company’s Roger Sharp gave AVweb a demo.

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