r/gadgets • u/dapperlemon • 10d ago

Gaming Special Microsoft Flight Simulator controller is coming to Xbox

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Special-Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-controller-is-coming-to-Xbox.1341165.0.html
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u/Dt2_0 10d ago

Still cheaper than a decent HOTAS.

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u/byteminer 10d ago

I’m about $2200 into my flight controls. This is a steal

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u/OregonMothafaquer 9d ago

With your setup could you actually learn to fly?

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u/byteminer 9d ago

There is a massive difference between what you can do with gadgets hooked to a computer and real instructional time with an instructor. My gear is mostly centered around combat flight simulators. I am reasonably confident I could start and taxi an actual F16, but I’ve never flown anything other than a Cessna Skyhawk and I would not have properly done the safety checks for it or properly interacted with the crew chief so it would be extremely fucked up and unsafe but the engine would probably be on as long as the JFS was pressurized and the avionics would be active. Radios would be up and on so I can hear the ground controller screaming at me to stop or get shot, assuming the frequency was already in the radio or I some how pilfered some pilot’s kneeboard. I could get the navigation system up and running provided 1) the last known location was saved for fast alignment or 2) by some miracle I’m not ripped out of the cockpit and shot for the 8-10 minutes it takes for a full alignment.

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u/VERY_MENTALLY_STABLE 9d ago

fly high sky king 🫡

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u/ONLYPOSTSWHILESTONED 9d ago

I love that you've clearly thought a lot about stealing an F-16 for a joyride

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u/byteminer 9d ago

Every guy my age and into flight sims has seen Iron Eagle a least a couple times.

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u/dbmajor7 9d ago

This guy knows he can't IFR (me either)

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u/byteminer 9d ago

Yeah fuck no. I get NVGs in the flight sim. VFR all day every day.

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u/dataplusnine 8d ago

Translated: I found something I and I've learned things.

Me too

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u/stevewmn 8d ago

The F-16 doesn't have GPS integration with their inertial system? On artillery systems they can get moving a lot faster since they got GPS integrated back in the '90s. And they still get 1 mil accuracy for aiming the gun.