All you Xbox wannabe pilots out there must be thrilled with Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, now that it is finally available for consoles, too. But if you want to really feel like you own that virtual ...

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Microsoft Flight Simulator is best enjoyed with joysticks. The game gets too challenging with a mouse and keyboard, and a normal Xbox Wireless controller isn't much better. Joysticks emulate the feel ...

Attaching a 3D-printed joystick and throttle to an Xbox controller is the perfect solution to playing Microsoft Flight Simulator on consoles. There are only two problems with that: flight sticks are ...

Ball and socket linkages make for smooth operation. People making DIY controls to enhance flight simulators is a vibrant niche of engineering and hackery, and it sure looks like Microsoft Flight ...

There's not a lot of great flight stick options for the Xbox console yet, why not just make your own? Reading time 2 minutes Microsoft Flight Simulator has finally come to the Xbox, and if you’ve ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is magical no matter how you play - but it definitely gains a little something special if you use the proper sim hardware. If you'd asked me who all those specialist flight ...

14 years on from the last entry, Microsoft Flight Simulator is finally back - and its return sees a whole wave of lapsed or new players taking to the skies. And if it's your first time up there in a ...

[Tom Stanton] has been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator a lot recently, and decided his old desktop joystick needed an upgrade. Instead of just replacing it with a newer commercial model, he built a ...

The traditional two-analog gamepad is a versatile input tool, but when it comes to something like a flight simulator, nothing beats having a joystick and a throttle. On Xbox One, that is now an option ...

If you’ve played any kind of flight simulator before, you know using a joystick is way more fun than using any other kind of controller. Certainly, more fun than a console controller, which is ...