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OpenFieldRC

The flying field, in your browser.

OpenFieldRC is the home of our flight simulators. It has a simulator for each kind of pilot: the one who flies RC planes, the one who flies FPV drones, and the organisation that trains drone operators. There is an account made for both games, and there are guides for the RC pilot who is just starting out.

Plan of a flying field: the RC planes' runway and pits on the left, the FPV cage and its gates top right, a building site for the training simulator bottom right, and one entrance at the bottom with a path to each area.

ARC plane pilots

OpenFlight 2 · in development

BFPV pilots

CTraining · in development

Entrance: openfieldrc.com

The site drawn as a flying field. Each area has its own simulator and its own path from the entrance. No path runs from one area to another: they are different products for different pilots.

A simulator for each kind of pilot.

Different simulators for different pilots. Each area has its own, and none is the way into another.

One account for both games.

You sign in with Google on accounts.openfieldrc.com. The account is made for both games: Openflight uses it now, and the Paraguayan Drone Combat Simulator moves to it later. Each game keeps its own progress.

What the account keeps

Your Google ID
A number that tells it you're back next time. Not your name, your email or your picture.
Your callsign
The pilot name you choose. Other players can see it.
Your progress
Kept per game, so nothing in one game can change the other.
Who you block
Up to 50 pilots, one list for both games.
Your sessions
Up to 30 days each, kept only as a SHA-256 fingerprint, so a copy of the database signs nobody in.

It does not store your email, and sign-in uses no cookies. Deleting the account removes the callsign, the progress in every game and every session, all at once.

Guides to learn to fly.

Three guides for the new RC pilot, in English and Spanish, written from Openflight's flight model and its sources, and from the FAA's flight training handbook.

Stall recovery, in order

  1. Lower the nose. Elevator forward until the plane is flying again.
  2. Level the wings. With aileron, and rudder to stop any yaw.
  3. Power, smoothly. It saves height, but does not end a stall by itself.
  4. Ease back to level. A hard pull stalls the wing again.

Never pick up a dropped wing with aileron while it is still stalled.

The steps from the stalls and spins guide, which adapts them from the FAA's Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3C, ch. 5).
  1. How to fly an RC plane for the first time

    Ground checks, the sticks in Mode 1 and Mode 2, takeoff into the wind, the first circuit, trim and coming home.

  2. Stalls and spins

    Angle of attack, the low slow turn onto final, tip stalls, spins, and the recovery steps in order.

  3. How to land an RC plane

    The circuit, a steady approach, the flare and touchdown, crosswinds and go-arounds.

Walk onto the field.

openfieldrc.com has each simulator, the guides and the account. The site sets no cookies and runs no trackers.

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