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 ...

The name of the hands-on throttle-and-stick (or HOTAS) joystick comes along with Microsoft Flight Simulator. The revolutionary Microsoft Flight Simulator series began its journey in 1992 and has since ...

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 ...

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 ...

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[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 ...