Effective home flight simulation for student pilots requires using quality, realistic hardware to build proper habits and accelerate learning, distinguishing it from simply playing a game. Essential ...

Flight simulators offer pilots and enthusiasts a realistic, immersive experience to hone skills and enjoy flying without the constraints of actual flight. Building an ultimate home flight sim requires ...

Some students arrive at their first flight lesson surprisingly comfortable in a cockpit. They understand the purpose of most instruments and generally know what most of the various knobs and switches ...

When it comes to flight simulators, we’ve seen people go all-out with their immersive setups, with all kinds of hyper-realistic control systems and monitors as far as the eye can see. But for those ...

When most people sit down in front of their PC intending to play flight sims, there's usually just a mouse and keyboard at their disposal. Some may have a flight stick, and a few might even have ...

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One of the great things about working from home is that you have a lot of freedom to set your home office up just the way you like it, whether you're perfecting your PC setup to make it more ...

When Microsoft, after a decade-long hiatus, relaunched its now 40-year-old Flight Simulator series in 2020, it reignited interest in a genre that had long been a mainstay of PC gaming. It’s one thing ...

Virtual Reality (VR) and actual reality often don’t mix: watch someone play a VR game without seeing what they see and you see a lot of pointless-looking flailing around. [Nerdaxic] may have found a ...

Star Wars fans let out a collective gasp when Electronic Arts announced Star Wars: Squadrons in June. It looks every inch like the first-person, in-cockpit space combat game that fans have been ...

Most people would struggle to fit the flight deck of a plane into their living room without at least moving the sofa, but the Honeycomb Aeronautical Echo Aviation Controller lets you leave all the ...

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