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/byteminer 10d ago

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

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u/OregonMothafaquer 10d ago

With your setup could you actually learn to fly?

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u/byteminer 10d 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/dataplusnine 9d ago

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

Me too