Simulator DCL. Racing FPV Simulator From Drone Racing Professionals

Release

On Feb­ru­ary 18, Drone Cham­pi­ons League (DCL), the world-famous drone rac­ing league, released its first mul­ti­plat­form FPV rac­ing sim­u­la­tor with mul­ti­play­er, DCL-The Game. The release was marked by the launch of the first pilot-con­trolled rac­ing drone on board, which was brought to life in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Flite Test dur­ing the cre­ation of the sim­u­la­tor. “The idea is to race manned drones in the future, and you can start learn­ing to fly them today through the DCL sim­u­la­tor — The Game,” the DCL devel­op­ers elab­o­rate.

The first to take the pilot’s seat in the cock­pit of a rac­ing drone was the author of the idea and the founder of DCL, as well as an aer­o­bat­ics pilot, bach­e­lor of space and avi­a­tion engi­neer­ing of Aus­tri­an ori­gin — Her­bert Weirather. The launch site is Vrsar air­port in Croa­t­ia. So far, for safe­ty rea­sons, fly­ing with a per­son on board con­sist­ed only of hov­er­ing, and pilot­ing was car­ried out from the ground through con­trol equip­ment, by DCL cham­pi­on Mirko Cese­na. A more aggres­sive flight was already imple­ment­ed with a dum­my.

About the drone

Almost noth­ing is known about the rac­ing drone itself. It is men­tioned that the base of the drone is ful­ly car­bon fiber, the pow­er plant con­sists of six coax­i­al rotors (12 brush­less motors / 2 motors per beam), and the pow­er is sup­plied by 24 bat­ter­ies.

* Her­bert Weirather before take­off.

* Test flight with a dum­my.

*DCL Cham­pi­on — Mirko Cese­na.

About the simulator

DCL — The Game is per­fect for all drone rac­ing fans, as well as for casu­al gamers who love high-speed flight sim­u­la­tors. The capa­bil­i­ties of the sim­u­la­tor will allow advanced pilots to hone and devel­op pilot­ing skills, or pre­pare for real rac­ing events, and begin­ners to take the first step into the world of sports of the future to get acquaint­ed with the physics of con­trol with­out fear of crash­ing a real drone due to lack of expe­ri­ence.

Note that the announced DCL sim­u­la­tor, as in the case of the already exist­ing pro­fes­sion­al sim­u­la­tor from the DRL league, gives play­ers the chance to become the reign­ing Drone Prix cham­pi­on and com­pete with pro­fes­sion­als in real life. To make the dream come true, play­ers need to sign up for the draft and play DCL — The Game, set the best time, and ulti­mate­ly com­pete against the best of the best for a place on the DCL team.

Video about how real­is­tic the sim­u­la­tor is — DCL — The Game.

Simulator Features

• Over 30 online drone rac­ing tracks, includ­ing vir­tu­al exist­ing rac­ing tracks includ­ing some of the world’s most icon­ic loca­tions such as the Great Wall of Chi­na or the icon­ic Rap­per­swil Cas­tle in Zurich, Switzer­land.
• Abil­i­ty to com­pete with pilots from all over the world in mul­ti­play­er mode (up to 30 par­tic­i­pants)
• Four flight modes, from begin­ners to advanced train­ing.
• Abil­i­ty to cus­tomize the drone (more than 100 cus­tomiza­tion options)
• Oppor­tu­ni­ty to train and qual­i­fy for a spot in the DCL Cham­pi­ons League Drone Rac­ing.

Supported Platforms

DCL sim­u­la­tor — The Game is com­pat­i­ble with all known plat­forms such as PlaySta­tion 4, Xbox One and Steam (for PC and Mac).

System requirements

Windows

Minimum

• Requires 64-bit proces­sor and oper­at­ing sys­tem
• OS: 64-bit Win­dows 7/8/10
• Proces­sor: Intel Core i5-670
• RAM: 4 GB RAM
• Video card: GeForce GTX650
• Net­work: Broad­band inter­net con­nec­tion
• Disk space: 12 GB

Recommended

• Requires 64-bit proces­sor and oper­at­ing sys­tem
• OS: 64-bit Win­dows 7/8/10
• Proces­sor: Intel Core i7 4770k
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video card: GeForce GTX970
• Net­work: Broad­band inter­net con­nec­tion
• Disk space: 12 GB

MacOS X

Minimum

• Requires 64-bit proces­sor and oper­at­ing sys­tem
  OS: Moun­tain Lion
• Proces­sor: Intel Core i5 2.4 GHz
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video card: Intel Iris 1536 MB
• Net­work: Broad­band inter­net con­nec­tion
• Disk space: 12 GB

Recommended

• Requires 64-bit proces­sor and oper­at­ing sys­tem
• OS: High Sier­ra
• Proces­sor: Intel Core i7 4770k
• RAM: 8 GB RAM
• Video card: GeForce GTX970
• Net­work: Broad­band inter­net con­nec­tion
• Disk space: 12 GB

How to connect the remote control to a PC?

Step by step instruc­tions for con­nect­ing con­trol equip­ment to a PC can be found here.

Availability and price

Sim­u­la­tor DCL — The Game is already avail­able for pur­chase. The prices, depend­ing on the gam­ing plat­form used, the devel­op­er has set the fol­low­ing:

1. DCL — The Game Stan­dard Edi­tion for PC/Mac: $29.99
2. Con­sole Stan­dard Edi­tion: $39.99

Video

Game­play DCL — The Game.

Video sub­mit­ted from the FlightTest chan­nel.

One of the days of the Drone Prix drone rac­ing event with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of the DCL team, held on Octo­ber 18, 2019 in the cap­i­tal of Liecht­en­stein is Vaduz.