Not so eager to burn thousands of dollars and years of your life at flight school, only to get stuck with pitiful route options and no three day layovers in Barbados? Have a look at your next best option,
Logitech's Flight System G940. Hailed as the company's first force-feedback flight simulation controller, this thing goes far beyond the simple call of duty. Instead of just tossing a joystick in a box and calling it a day, Logitech has also included dual throttle and rudder pedals, giving you 250 programmable button options and bragging rights galore. Sadly, you'll have to coast through the summer 'til this hits Europe and America in September, but that should give you plenty of time to save up the three Benjamins it'll require to bring one home in legal fashion.
posted Jun 3rd 2009 9:22AM
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I love how this article seems to suggest stealing one might be a good option.
Yeah what's the alternative to the "3 Benjamins" exactly?
Buy it from a guy who saw it fall of a truck, his name is tony.
With one of these I might actually get back into playing flight simulator games. X-Wing here I come :)
Look at this !
Saitek has the best offerings in flight training
http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/fip.htm#../images/Product/flight_fip_6mountedcr.jpg
@quantum
That looks like a $1,000 dollar controller setup for a $50 game and significantly more then 3 Benjamin's. Pretty kick ass looking, but a bit more then I'd be willing to drop on game controller.
I'm still a CH Products fan (from preUSB days...).
http://www.chproducts.com/retail/index.html
Now if only they still made flight sim games to use this with.
Legal fashion is so lame! Gimme some riots
Just keep this away from those filthy Terrorists!
AHAHAHA!!!
You know who you are!
By the way a little secret... (your loser god DNE!)
Pff how amateur. This is what you want:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/13/1236447451617.html?page=fullpage
I personally prefer the Saitek X series...I have an X42 which resembles the F-16 cockpit.
I got my pilot's license years ago and every now and then I fly in a Viperjet MKII - which is one of the best jet powered personal aircraft on the market in my opinion.
I love the joystick design, but I'm sure many other pilots would prefer a flightyolk if they are training or flying light prop aircraft or commercial jets.
The only think that kills me is that none of these HOTAS flight setups have FORCE FEEDBACK yet.
His simulator cost more to build than the ACTUAL AIRPLANE I purchased.
You know you can buy airplanes and helicopters on Ebay for less than $100,000?
One of the problems with fly-by-wire sticks is they rarely have force feedback - I understand the F16 stick was modified to move more (or something like that) when you applied forces to it so there was SOME feedback (rather than being a rigid mount that simply sensed your forces).
Very few Sopwith Camels, lots of feedback there, had HOTAS controls...
Wrong, fly-by-wire all give feedback AFAIK.
>>> "...In the F-16, the engineers chose to convert the mechanical force applied by the pilot on the stick
>>> into electrical signals, which could then be transmitted over electrical wires to the actuators. The main
>>> advantage of this is that this system is less vulnerable (you can easily make it redundant) and it takes
>>> less space and is easier to route through the airframe (in the traditional cable/pulley system you have
>>> steel cables under tension going from the cockpit to all control surfaces, and as you can imagine you
>>> don't want these to twist and turn too much). Also, this allowed the stick to be located off-center. Since
>>> you're using electrical wires to tranmit the control signals, they called this system "Fly-by-Wire".
>>>
>>> One of the unexpected negative side effects of this system was that pilot's couldn't get used to
>>> the fact that the control stick didn't move (it didn't need to move - just needed to measure the
>>> direction and magnitude of the force applied by the pilot). They modified the stick so it now
>>> moves slightly..."
http://www.f-16.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=2095#2095
It's not forcefeedback per se, but there is feedback the pilot can feel in most fly-by-wire systems as I understand it, even in commercial airliners that use fly-by-wire.
And your quote must be from the early dawn of the F16, which now is decades ago.
The airbus (commercial airline plane) for instance was the first to introduce digital fly-by-wire in commercial planes back in the 80's.
300 Washingtons
60 Lincolns
30 Hamiltons
15 Jacksons
6 Grants
^^^^^ This was a reply to Stan, dangit!
What's a Benjamin? And how much is three of them?
I don't know if that was sarcasm, so
a Benjamin is equal to $100, so 3 of them is $300
3 benjamins is 700 shy of a large one he meant to say :)
Is this some kind of yoke?
I see what you did there
lol
I want this on the 360. I don't want to play a flight sim on a 22" screen.
When you play on PC, you generally sit very close to the screen. When you play 360, you sit far away. So in both situations the screen will fill your vision by about the same amount. SO unless you just like big numbers you will be fine.
So plug your PC into your TV using the same HDMI cable as your 360. You may have to buy a $3 HDMI-DVI adapter.
Would be nice to have with Xplane 10, whenever it's released.
I hope they up their game even though the Flight Simulator team at Microsoft was laid off...
Is there a reason this won't work with Xplane 9? I have 9 now, just now flight sticks for it, and this looks perfect.
I hope it works on OS X. :)
Mechwarrior 2!
/agree with Oliver
How bout a next gen freakin mech sim???? And don't go bustin out with chromehounds on me--it sucked, badly.
Hey M$ Gimme some Mechwarrior 3 lovin, will ya?
Sarcasm?
MechWarrior 3 came out in 1999; MW4 in late 2000. Unfortunately neither were very good (oh man the cutscenes on MW4 were so awful it wasn't even funny).
Microsoft no longer holds the rights to Mechwarrior on the PC/Consoles.
In 2007 Jordan Weisman founded a new company called Smith & Tinker which reacquired the rights to all the original FASA titles from Microsoft.
Nothing has been heard since.
I too am curious on what future game will be made for this, as no company is making good flight sims anymore. thanks MS
Look for the IL2 Sturmovik follow up, Battle of Britain. It's possibly the slowest coming flight sim of all time, but the IL2 series was the best WWII flight sim experience ever, so with a technical/graphics upgrade, BoB should be astounding when it finally is released.
DCS Black Shark is a flightsim fan's dream!
Next target customer: Ministry of Defence
Keep these away from terrorist.
Nice to see another maker coming into serious Flight Sim controllers!
If we could all afford, we probably love to use cirrus but they are sooo expensive.