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Electric RC Sim Lite – Simulation Game Review
Electric RC Sim Lite is a Simulation/Sports/Sports game from Ben White, first launched in 21st November 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 130+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Electric RC Sim Lite Stand Out
Experience all the fun and excitement of RC plane flying without leaving your chair! Electric RC Sim Lite is a flight simulator for radio controlled aircraft. Fast startup plus realistic physics and graphics make it a pleasure to fly. Use it to learn to fly, hone your skills, or just have fun flying around.
Learning to fly an RC plane takes practice, and Electric RC Sim Lite can help you learn much faster. When you crash, just press the reset button and you're flying again. There's no need to fuss with building, repairing, or waiting for a calm day, saving you time and money.
Includes:
- three channel trainer: great for learning to fly
- handy help guide for beginner pilots
Features:
- detailed nonlinear nonstationary flight dynamics model
- photorealistic graphics
- intelligent camera view and zoom helps improve sense of space and speed of your plane
- landscape and portrait view: portrait view helps with sense of altitude of your plane
- works great on iPhone; looks amazing on iPad
- realistic engine sounds
Customer feedback:
"Great fun! Big thanks to the developer."
"A very well-designed app to teach you to fly. Priceless."
Note: the three channel trainer is great for learning to fly because there are only three channels to worry about instead of four. The plane follows the standard practice of connecting the rudder to the aileron channel so that you don't have to relearn aileron control when moving up to a four channel plane.
If you like this app, be sure to check out "RC Toybox" (iPad only). A fun game to play with your kids.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Electric RC Sim Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th August 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Minor updates.
If you like this app, please take the time to rate/review it. Old ratings get hidden with each update. Thanks and have fun!
Download & Availability
Electric RC Sim Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Electric RC Sim Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
So this game is Electric RC Sim Lite. And we played this a long time ago. Then we delete it. We remember it was like a yellow Cessna plane. Then today we searched up plane on App Store, we found a different game with RC Airplanes too. So we searched rc airplane on App Store and found this. The yellow Cessna 120 made us instantly remember this. We immediately downloaded it. The only part we dont really like is they dont have explosion, not even the wings come apart. But still this brings back nostalgia. This doesnt even has ads.
This game is absolutely awesome. Its kinda funny because its soooo simple and everything but its so easy and fun to use. We do wish yall would update it because when we click on it it pulls up but then just blinks back to our Home Screen, but when we click on it again it works. Great game tho, thanks for providing this.
Just like our original nitro powered model aircraft that we flew over 40 years ago! This free RC model airplane flight simulator has already saved us physically hundred of dollars in crash repair bills and fifty plus hours in repair time. You can focus on learning or relearning the precision skill of flying without the agony of your mistakes. There is an option to magnify the aircraft on the field when learning to fly. It helps you to see if the aircraft is coming, going or which way it is turning. (Tip: When it is flying towards you then youll want to point your control stick towards the lower wing to level the approaching airplane.) After getting used to the magnified airplane, we started to turn off the magnifier to get a better sense and practice learning to fly the airplane when it gets very far away. Our next step is learning to fly it closer to the ground where reaction time and over steering is increasingly critical and mistakes are less forgiving. Fortunately, this is a simulator and the reset button allows you to instantly live to fly again! We are getting back into RC model aircrafts after getting inspired from a new friend living in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. This RC model aircraft simulator might appear dated but doesnt really need any updating. We can focus on really learning to fly without being interrupted by ads. We plan to pay for the paid version soon as it offers a few more aircrafts to choose from. In the meanwhile we will master this RC model airplane simulator whenever we have a few minutes through out the day or night, rain or shine! Good Luck, enjoy the renewed RC model airplane sport by mastering the basics first. Download this app now and feel like a little kid again.
The best free App for recreation of the R/C flying experience. Although the graphics and planes might lack the pizzazz of similar fight apps, nothing out there compares to the very simple and realistic feel of R/C flying that this App. We fly this App to practice our real world R/C skills and the planes respond in a very similar manor. The trees and other landscape features add to realistic flight park feel and other limitations. The only thing missing is wind, but its unnecessary. Excellent application for beginners and pros.
We absolutely love the 3 channel plane. Like others have said years ago, great practice when you cant get outside and fly! Nice app.
Very fun! Even our kids were getting great on this. Its a great Segway into RC Flying.
Used this simulator for two weeks while away from flying. Im a beginner and could only use assisted flying beforehand. Got in the air after the two weeks and completed our first barrel rolls, flops, and controlled landings with no assist. Great app! Highly recommend.
Learn and avoid destroying your model trying new techniques or tricks. Only have the free version and it can be a lot of fun.
Lots of fun it flys great, too bad we can't. But it doesn't hurt when you crash and doesn't cost any thing to fix.
Great for polishing up directional control and no cash for repairs.
Love the responsivness. Feels completely realistic when a plane is perfectly trimmed out and a stable flyer. This app provides a super-realistic experience for practice and teaching the basics of radio controlled flight. Our four year old grandson loves it too:-) Great job.
We love this game but we wish they added more planes.
We use this app to as a quick tuneup if it's been a while since we picked up the controls. It has also saved us several repairs by teaching our son how to fly before his first flight and the importance of smooth controls, how to bank with the plane heading toward you, and many more things we learned the hard and expensive way. He crashed 50 times in the sim, flew better than we did with the real plane. Great Job. When we finally go to a quad, we will be upgrading to your full app. We're sure it's just as good or better. Hopefully we will be able to learn as fast as our son did, but we're not counting on it.
The planes feel and fly very smoothly and are easy to control. Ive tried newer mobile flight sims/ RC sims, but none feel nearly as fun and satisfying to fly. We also appreciate the lack of ads! However, the game does show its age we would love to see optimizations for full screen iPhones (iPhone X and newer). Currently, the game doesnt fully fit the screen. Also, the environment textures are very low quality. Id love to see an improvement on them. It would be awesome to also see some new features such as wind, damage simulation, time of day, and first-person mode. Overall the game is really fun to play for a few minutes here and there. The physics system is perfect, and the lack of ads makes us come back to play it often. Im sure that the game probably wont see any updates in the future, and that the dev will probably never read this. But we can hope.
It has been a long time since we have flown RC planes. This is a good app to either introduce someone to RC planes or like us, get acquainted again to the hobby! Also, as someone points out, less expensive when you crash. We felt that it is responsive to the controls, but one can only do so much with 2D controls verses actually holding the radio and moving the sticks. Thanks for the app.
We love this app but a few things need to be done you need to make the turning and sensitivity more realistic and more planes other than that it's great and if you are reading this the steering is barely off but still fun.
It really helps you know how to control planes especially if your use to flying 4 channel helicopters.
This is all we can say, very little adds and great quality.
Do not buy this game it is trash.
Extremely Accurate & Awesome !!! Tons of fun & BEST way to practice if your going to buy a Real RC Plane ! 1000x Cheaper to crash ! Lol.
Before flying our brand new trainer, we used this app to reacquaint ourselves with 4 channel control. We found it to be extremely helpful as a training tool and fun as all-get-out. For two bucks(!) you get three environments to fly in with different wind conditions and a large stable of quite different and interesting aircraft to fly, from mild to very wild indeed. Whether you only use it as a game or as a training tool to build RC flying proficiency, it is a stunning value! While it is great as it is, you can't blame us for thinking up things we would love the developer to offer in either future upgrades or as in-app purchases: A night flying environment with accurate aircraft lighting. A complex aircraft package with flaps and retracts and transmitter to match The ability to add other flyers via network gameplay A multi-engine aircraft Many thanks for this terrific, fun app that we have spent many happy, useful hours using.
We have seen better games but what makes this one good is it is a simple game to play while you're waiting on something but other people may like a different kind it's really all in what kind of game you like.
We're a licensed pilot and new to RC. This app has helped us overcome the reversed left/right control of the approaching airplane. Thanks for this great app.
It's ours and our son's favorite sim of this type. We saw the other reviewers mention not having a Yaw(rudder) control but that feature but we're guessing, is only in the paid version with access to 4 ch planes. This operates as a 3ch with "bank and yank" turns. A nice addition would be to fly a few planes together in a shared environment on Wifi or Bluetooth. The zoom view can be a bit distracting and should be fixed in a corner maybe when on.
We enjoy this game, we wish we could have another plane.
Rudder is supposed to be on the left with the throttle. Not usable (unless you never plan to be in the hobby).
Rudder control only available in 4ch? What.
With zero building ability, and really no where to fly anyhow, this program is a great alternative. Thanks.
This sim is super simple, but works awesome. If you want to fly a real rc plane you should get good and comfortable with this app first. Great job guys.
Realistically difficult. Perfect tool before getting the real thing.
Better to learn here first than to fly a real one.
We love this app! The plane flies just like our Hobby Zone Champ! We play it all the time! The only downside is the noise the plane makes.
We built an RC plane this past winter and now we're afraid to fly it. Well, we will eventually and this virtual flyer is a great tool to learn with an very fun to use. We're addicted! Thank you :-).
We agree with the comment below, it flies pretty close to the hobby zone champ. Great tool for beginners and experienced r/c flyers. Our only request is to please tweak the sound of the plane, it currently sounds like a cat being electrocuted. Everything else is perfect.
Love it. Better learning on this than destroying your rc planes. Highly recommend you do hours on it before going to the field. Great job.
Love the game if only they had a store to buy new planes By:desi love the game december23,2013 Virsoin 1.1.
Very realistic control reactions. Good game.
So real but limited action otherwise. Pretty much just float around the park. Simple.
It's realistic for a trainer super, cub from hobby zone but crash damage is unrealistic.
There should realy be like two or three planes and at least two fields that way customers can realy get more of a feel for what they are buying. But, other thanthe fact thattgere is only one plane and one field we guess its okay but those other things would makeitway better.
The problem is when we play the game, the sound out comes through the headphones and not the speakers. Please fix, and we will give this app a five star rating, we promise.
The app is fairly accurate in representing how difficult it is to fly. But the views of the app don't always allow you to see the horizon so you can easily get lost if you fly overhead. The app is probably much better on a full sized iPad, but it's pretty hard to see the plane on an iPhone.
This is an okay sim if you already know how to fly. We don't. We were looking for something very easy and simple so that we could learn the basics. If this were a real model in the real world we would have already invested thousands of dollars in crashed and ruined airplanes. That's not our idea of fun. We wanted something easy enough that a nonexperienced person could learn the basic controls and then advance to more complex aircraft. But that's not the case with this application. If you already know how to fly RC aircraft or are used to flight simulators, then by all means enjoy yourself! But if you're new to it, like we are, better look somewhere else. Or, maybe it's just us.
Very realistic-would like a glider aswell.
We think that this app is overrated, get rc plane 2 if you want better quality.
The best RC sim in the App Store that we've found so far! We love this lite version, can't wait to get the full.
A very well-designed app to teach you to fly. Priceless.
Great fun! Big thanks to the developer.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3
- Size: 25.90 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Ben White]()
Last updated: 20th August 2016 | Genre: Simulation, Sports | Developer: Ben White