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btfarrwm wrote:If a build is ever really finished…
HP Omni desktop (MSFS 2020)
ASUS 54” monitor
Real Sim Gear G1000 panels
Logitech switch panel
Turtle Beach Velocity One yoke/throttle quadrant
Thrustmaster/Airbus side stick
Logitech rudder pedals
iPad/ForeFlight
ONN headset / VATSIM
I’m very happy with it thus far. About to start lessons towards my PPL, so I hope this can save me some hours figuring out the basics.
btfarrwm wrote:If a build is ever really finished…
HP Omni desktop (MSFS 2020)
ASUS 54” monitor
Real Sim Gear G1000 panels
Logitech switch panel
Turtle Beach Velocity One yoke/throttle quadrant
Thrustmaster/Airbus side stick
Logitech rudder pedals
iPad/ForeFlight
ONN headset / VATSIM
I’m very happy with it thus far. About to start lessons towards my PPL, so I hope this can save me some hours figuring out the basics.
Ps762 wrote:btfarrwm wrote:If a build is ever really finished…
HP Omni desktop (MSFS 2020)
ASUS 54” monitor
Real Sim Gear G1000 panels
Logitech switch panel
Turtle Beach Velocity One yoke/throttle quadrant
Thrustmaster/Airbus side stick
Logitech rudder pedals
iPad/ForeFlight
ONN headset / VATSIM
I’m very happy with it thus far. About to start lessons towards my PPL, so I hope this can save me some hours figuring out the basics.
Hi,
Firstly just to say many thanks for this as it's interesting for me since I had mentioned elsewhere here before that I have recently been out of flightsim for a few years so am happy to try and relearn a bit(!) Also for me yes I will also maintain that a flightsim build computer is never done(!)
But anyway a few thoughts in no particular order if curious maybe?:
1. So Turtle Beach now make yokes? Definitely I'll have to try and have a look. Now I sound a bit old but last thing I remember Turtle Beach made 16-bit sound cards sorry(!)
2. I will also try and have a look for the HP Omnibook series hopefully. I kinda lost touch with processors and stuff also since maybe AMD Sempron but maybe can learn some. I know my brother here has just a budget HP Win10 machine and for the price I am pretty impressed with how it performs at least for non-gaming stuff.
3. Funnily I was actually thinking of trying to post recently if there are any good and reasonable joysticks for flightsim now? Back in 2003 my option was to buy a Microsoft basic Sidewinder and with a tutorial buy some lighter springs and change them. I still have the stick and used it a lot and it even worked which was probably the only hardware thing in terms of my own mods that ever did for me!
4. Also regarding rudder pedals for many years also here I just used autorudder in Fs but then was really happy to see reasonable ones by Saitek around 2009 and bought a set and really enjoyed them.
5. And finally on the real world stuff. Well only from the perspective of a flightsimmer who dabbled a bit but never really got to solo stage I can't really say if it helped me or not but it was definitely what I liked to do. Maybe in some ways looking back though I was trying to pick up too much at once in RW because of it but not sure. But maybe the headphones might have helped me since I was always a bit unhappy wearing them in a light aircraft. And funnily since Fs is often called out for it's bad ATC the one area where I was I think a bit ahead was with radio calls? My instructor was like "you seem pretty at ease doing the radio calls for the first time" and all I could say was probably just because I've heard or pressed a key for them a million times in flightsim. That and maybe listening to airband radio and stuff probably helped that but who knows(!)
Anyway many thanks again and best wishes too like others have said for future RW (and flightsim of course too!),
Many thanks (again!),
Ps762
r6russian wrote:nice setup man
i sim with a logitech extreme 3d pro, have been for many years now and its the best flight stick ive simmed with. Its RH only, but from real world experience in a 172 and sim experience, it literally makes 0 difference between holding a real yoke in your left or a joystick in your right. I like it alot because it has an AP disconnect in a logical place (under your thumb) and the 6 buttons on the base work out real nice for real world airline ops IMO. I have mine mapped A/T master, TOGA, Spoilers up, spoilers Arm, and L/R brakes. Then on top is elevator trim and flaps in addition to the hat switch.
bigger issue as far as using FS for flight training, there are a couple concerns. first, stock 172 flies nothing like the real thing. Theres no quality payware 172 yet for MSFS. A2A skyhawk for FSX was visually nice and full of features, but still flew nothing like the real thing. Real 172 constantly requires various amounts of right rudder, if you let go of the pedals, youll turn into a smoking hole in the ground via the death spiral very quickly. stock 172 in MSFS barely requires any right rudder on takeoff and none while flying. So as far as actual flight training, its no good, but its great for procedure training, instrument scans, checklists, and stuff thats universal to all GA flying like pattern entries, flying thru/around difference airspaces, and with MSFS literally flying over a satellite view of the ground below, you can check out airfields local to you that your instructor will have you flying to.
another issue with using FS for flight training is since we dont get any feel thru the floors and computer chairs, we unknowingly VFR fly by instruments. My instructor used to have to remind me to feel the airplane and look outside instead of down at my PFD for airspeed, altitute, VSI, etc. You also dont feel how much trim to dial in, because theres no feedback thru the stick or yoke in the sim. but thats easy to get a feel for.
i dont see any kind of a head tracker tho. Hope you have a TrackIR or something like that. IMO Last sim that could be flown without a head tracker was FS2004 with 2D panels. Even since FSX went to virtual cockpits only, a way to look around it smoother than with the hat switch has been a requirement for the proper kind of simulation experience
btfarrwm wrote:If a build is ever really finished…
HP Omni desktop (MSFS 2020)
ASUS 54” monitor
Real Sim Gear G1000 panels
Logitech switch panel
Turtle Beach Velocity One yoke/throttle quadrant
Thrustmaster/Airbus side stick
Logitech rudder pedals
iPad/ForeFlight
ONN headset / VATSIM
I’m very happy with it thus far. About to start lessons towards my PPL, so I hope this can save me some hours figuring out the basics.
btfarrwm wrote:If a build is ever really finished…
HP Omni desktop (MSFS 2020)
ASUS 54” monitor
Real Sim Gear G1000 panels
Logitech switch panel
Turtle Beach Velocity One yoke/throttle quadrant
Thrustmaster/Airbus side stick
Logitech rudder pedals
iPad/ForeFlight
ONN headset / VATSIM
I’m very happy with it thus far. About to start lessons towards my PPL, so I hope this can save me some hours figuring out the basics.
cpd wrote:btfarrwm wrote:If a build is ever really finished…
HP Omni desktop (MSFS 2020)
ASUS 54” monitor
Real Sim Gear G1000 panels
Logitech switch panel
Turtle Beach Velocity One yoke/throttle quadrant
Thrustmaster/Airbus side stick
Logitech rudder pedals
iPad/ForeFlight
ONN headset / VATSIM
I’m very happy with it thus far. About to start lessons towards my PPL, so I hope this can save me some hours figuring out the basics.
I took the step into the world of VR in Flight Simulator. That's very, very impressive. I have HP Reverb G2. Using the 737 of PMDG is amazing.
I'm not flying the default planes, maybe I'm not familiar with the real ones, but I can't imagine the real ones are like the way default aircraft fly with super-sensitive, wild movements to the slightest inputs, though maybe the controller sensitivity needs adjusting.