Real flight and Internet

uh1medic · 02-11-2012, 09:51 AM

Will RF function without Internet? I posed this same question on the Phoenix forum with favorable answers.

What I am looking for is a good simulator that is not a slave to the Internet. Can you load RF and use it without completing a mandatory online registration first? Can updates be loaded onto a storage device and then ran on the sim machine?

Any advantages to RF over others? The price makes me think so.

Rotorbroke · 02-14-2012, 05:50 AM

i believe when you first install it you need an internet connection because you need to input your interlink contrl sn. i am not sure if that was to activate it or just registar. i think you need to be on the internet to activate/registar and get updates, that is how they keep multiple copies of one program from being installed. i think????

ahahn · 02-14-2012, 05:08 PM

I don't think you need the internet connection. The copy protection is in the Transmitter module.

I am recalling this from memory. I borrowed a RF 5.0 copy with the transmitter and installed it on my computer. I don't recall going to the site until I tried to update to 5.5. Then it asked me to register, and then it noticed that someone else had already registered that copy (the actual owner). Since I didn't have his password, I couldn't update.

However 5.0 still ran and runs for me. At least as long as I have the transmitter module!

02-11-2012, 09:51 AM	#1
uh1medic Registered Users Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: United States	Real flight and Internet Will RF function without Internet? I posed this same question on the Phoenix forum with favorable answers. What I am looking for is a good simulator that is not a slave to the Internet. Can you load RF and use it without completing a mandatory online registration first? Can updates be loaded onto a storage device and then ran on the sim machine? Any advantages to RF over others? The price makes me think so.

02-14-2012, 05:50 AM	#2
Rotorbroke Registered Users My HF Map location Join Date: May 2009 Location: WideOpenSpaces, FL	i believe when you first install it you need an internet connection because you need to input your interlink contrl sn. i am not sure if that was to activate it or just registar. i think you need to be on the internet to activate/registar and get updates, that is how they keep multiple copies of one program from being installed. i think???? __________________ Yes, your battery has enough for one more go round and the sun is just high enough. fly like there is no tomorrow!!

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02-14-2012, 05:08 PM	#3
ahahn Registered Users Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Chicago 'burbs	I don't think you need the internet connection. The copy protection is in the Transmitter module. I am recalling this from memory. I borrowed a RF 5.0 copy with the transmitter and installed it on my computer. I don't recall going to the site until I tried to update to 5.5. Then it asked me to register, and then it noticed that someone else had already registered that copy (the actual owner). Since I didn't have his password, I couldn't update. However 5.0 still ran and runs for me. At least as long as I have the transmitter module!