Nineteen aircraft

19 aircraft to simulate: VTOL, fixed-wing, FPV and multirotors

From the tilt-rotor to the long-range drone.

VTOL

Three-motor tilt-rotor, QuadPlane 4+1, VTOL flying wing, V-tail 4+1 and a twin-motor tailsitter that takes off sitting on its tail. Vertical take-off, transition and back, with ArduPlane's Q modes.

PLANE

Fixed wings with conventional or V-tails, pushers and twins: hand launch, automatic take-off with TAKEOFF and belly landing.

FLYING WING

Swept with winglets and straight with tip fins, with elevons and a centre of gravity that is genuinely critical.

FPV DRONES

A 5" freestyle and a 7" long-range, with Betaflight-style ACRO, ANGLE and HORIZON and GPS Rescue.

MULTIROTORS

Inspection with RGB and thermal gimbal, tethered cleaning drone with hose and caged drone for confined spaces, with ArduCopter's modes (LOITER, FLOWHOLD without GPS, RTL, AUTO…).

GLIDER

A 2.5 m sailplane towed up by another aircraft: thermals, slopes, audio variometer and weather map.

VTOL tilt-rotor, 3D model from the simulator — VTOLVTOL tilt-rotorThree motors, two tilting · ArduPlane

QuadPlane 4+1, 3D model from the simulator — VTOLQuadPlane 4+14 lift motors + 1 forward motor

VTOL flying wing 4+1, 3D model from the simulator — VTOLVTOL flying wing 4+1Flying wing 4+1 · QuadPlane

VTOL V-tail 4+1, 3D model from the simulator — VTOLVTOL V-tail 4+1V-tail 4+1 · QuadPlane

Flying-wing tailsitter, 3D model from the simulator — VTOLFlying-wing tailsitterTwin-motor tailsitter · takes off sitting

Twin-motor fixed-wing, 3D model from the simulator — PLANETwin-motor fixed-wingPlane without VTOL · hand launch

Tail-boom pusher, 3D model from the simulator — PLANETail-boom pusherConventional tail · pusher

Compact V-tail, 3D model from the simulator — PLANECompact V-tailV-tail · pusher

1.3 m V-tail, 3D model from the simulator — PLANE1.3 m V-tailV-tail · pusher

High-aspect-ratio V-tail, 3D model from the simulator — PLANEHigh-aspect-ratio V-tailV-tail · pusher

Twin tractor V-tail, 3D model from the simulator — PLANETwin tractor V-tailTwo motors on the wing

Flying wing, 3D model from the simulator — FLYING WINGFlying wingSwept · pusher

Small straight flying wing, 3D model from the simulator — FLYING WINGSmall straight flying wingStraight with fins · pusher

2.5 m glider, 3D model from the simulator — GLIDER2.5 m gliderThermals and slope · aerotow

5″ freestyle, 3D model from the simulator — FPV5" freestyleFPV drone · Betaflight

7″ long range, 3D model from the simulator — FPV7" long rangeFPV drone · Betaflight

Inspection multirotor, 3D model from the simulator — MULTIROTORInspection multirotorRGB and thermal gimbal · ArduCopter

Tethered cleaning drone, 3D model from the simulator — MULTIROTORTethered cleaning droneHose · ArduCopter

Caged drone, 3D model from the simulator — MULTIROTORCaged droneConfined spaces · ArduCopter

Every aircraft has its aerodynamics computed from its geometry, plus its own default ArduPilot parameters.

2.5 m glider towed by a plane, with the tow rope and the variometer on screen

New · glider

Get towed up, release and hunt for thermals.

A 2.5 m sailplane with no motor. It is towed up by another aircraft and you release with a button. Then it is time to find rising air: thermals where the ground heats up and slope lift on windward hillsides.

Total-energy variometer with sound: higher-pitched beeps the faster you climb, a low tone when you sink
Weather map with the likely thermal areas, the slope lift and the cloud base
Thermals topped by cumulus clouds, born from the sun, the colour of the ground and the terrain, and drifting with the wind
Competitions: F3J-style duration with a precision landing, and slope distance between bases

Included model · high-wing V-tail tilt-rotor

Engineering numbers, in plain sight.

4.91

CLα · per radian

11 %

Static margin

11.6

Maximum L/D

1.09

CLmax at 16°

Computed from the geometry with an in-house vortex lattice method, validated against reference results, and NeuralFoil for drag and stall. Calibration with real flight logs: in progress.

Also included

Two FPV drones for the same scenario.

A 5" freestyle and a 7" long-range, with Betaflight-style ACRO, ANGLE and HORIZON modes, configurable "Actual" rates, airmode and GPS Rescue if you lose the radio link. FPV camera with its real uptilt.

Freestyle · 6S LiPo · tri-blade

Long range · 6S Li-ion · bi-blade

And also

Everything you will find in the field, before you go.

Betaflight-style OSD

Design the OSD on the 53 × 20 HD grid of digital goggles, with templates and a separate OSD for the drone and for the plane.

Video link

Digital or analogue: blocking and freezes, or snow and colour loss as you fly away or behind an obstacle, with its latency.

Radio link

LQ and RSSI that drop with distance, and ArduPlane's failsafe chain when the link is lost.

Arming checks

The flight controller's checks and your pre-flight checklist before the first flight: props, battery, controls, failsafe, wind and area.

Record your flights

MP4 video up to 1080p with the OSD, the warnings and the sound of motors and wind, ready to share.

ArduPilot parameters

Import the .param from Mission Planner or QGroundControl, test it here and export the simulator's own. With real ArduPilot, fly your .param as it is.

On your phone

With on-screen touch sticks or with your radio, in landscape and full screen.

Spanish and English

The whole interface, the voice, the instructor and the manual of more than 80 pages, in both languages.

Choose the aircraft for what you are training

The VTOLs, for transitions and vertical flight with ArduPlane's Q modes (VTOL simulator); the fixed wings and the glider, for plane flying, AUTO missions and slope soaring; the multirotors, for professional inspection work missions; and the FPV drones, for acrobatic and long-range flying.