Just played FS9 with a joystick!

Well, not a joystick, but I dug out a PC gamepad that I used to use all the
time for "Day of Defeat" and "Battlefield 1942".

After giving FS9 a run with a controller, all I can say is - [CENSORED]!

I can't believe I've been pecking away at the keyboard, like an idiot, for
the last couple of months!

The overall experience playing this has just increased TEN FOLD!

First attempt at an ILS landing, not a problem at all. I was able to flare
nice and smoothly right onto the runway.

Banking and turning is smooth as glass.

WOW

This is an entirely new experience now.

If anyone else is still pecking at the keyboard (I'm no doubt the only idiot
that was), get yourself some sort of controller right away!

This is simply awesome now!

The arrow keys on my keyboard will be happy too. I wouldn't be too much
longer before the paint was rubbed completetly off!

best choice is a yoke
next best is force feedback joystick (microsoft is nice)

most folks stopped the keyboard flying a decade ago


VC


"Eric" <none@death.to.spammers.now> wrote in message
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flare
idiot

VC wrote:

I could never do it, period.



John

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On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 09:03:31 GMT, The Lindbergh Baby
<johngrabowski1@die.spammersearthlink.net> wrote:


I flew with the keyboard for awhile with FS5, then I got a controller
and have never looked back. I will eventually look at a yoke and
rudder pedals, but I am still enjoying the FF2 stick that I currently
have.

Bob

You mean it is actually possible to fly a PLANE using a keyboard?


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Ya - it's called an Airbus ; )

"Quilljar" <stay@home.today> wrote in message
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Yes, but many sims supported the mouse for control surfaces. That's what I
was planning to use, until I found out FS2004 doesn't support it (apparently
FS2002 didn't, either). Yoke on order...

--Cy--

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Quilljar wrote:

Reminds me of a cartoon I once saw: two pilots sitting in the cockpit of
a state-of-the-art jetliner and one says to the other "How about that!
I'm flying this whole thing on my Palm Pilot!"



John

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If you want to control FS by mouse, look for 'Mouse as Yoke' on the page
below. It was developed for FS2002 and upgraded for 2004

http://www.lovettsoftware.fsnet.co.u...e_download.htm


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> best choice is a yoke

LOL

But a keyboard worked fine with Sublogic's FS2 back in 1987.

Yeah, I realize this now. Didn't bother with joystick because I always
played FS9 on my laptop.