I can honestly see the point of TrackIR etc. in a very realistic MilSim like DCS A10 where you have to be all over the sky and hands on in a combat situation...but could someone please explain why anyone would actually need it with say NGX when EZDok can be set up to provide everything you need from a few programmable buttons? Andrew Vincent

+1

I use it so I don't have to use 2d panels and I find using the hat switch or mouse too clumsy and slow to look around with. But ya, it is less helpful in a airline sim than a combat sim.It also makes flying in the pattern much easier too.

most of the time my trackir is paused while flying on an airliner ... its nice to have but I wouldnt die without it ... but its nice to have it to enjoy the scenery :)with a-10c I would literally die if I wont have one :)

I can honestly see the point of TrackIR etc. in a very realistic MilSim like DCS A10 where you have to be all over the sky and hands on in a combat situation...but could someone please explain why anyone would actually need it with say NGX when EZDok can be set up to provide everything you need from a few programmable buttons? Andrew Vincent

Immersion. Just look around freely and operate buttons/switches with the mouse. Look out of the window when turning final on a visual approach.And it is not less helpful in an airline sim. Head Tracking all the way!

Immersion

Ditto! Also when going through the checklists it's incredible handy to have!

I couldn't imagine flying without my trackir. In my opinion 2d view is totally unrealistic.

Immersion. Just look around freely and operate buttons/switches with the mouse. Look out of the window when turning final on a visual approach.And it is not less helpful in an airline sim. Head Tracking all the way!

And i find it to be much easier and realistic when taxiing, especially on that lat turn to the gate.

I just can't fly without TrackIR at all...this is my youtube channel...last 10 vids are pretty much PMDG NGX...all around the world and hitting Record on FsRecorder while i was in final, nothing fancy. http://www.youtube.c...ser/turraisgone

can't live without it :)

For setup, my TrackIR is paused, simply because it's difficult to hit all the required switches without changing viewpoint. For actually flying below 10,000, the TrackIR is absolutely wonderful, and adds hugely to the immersion.

Immersion. Just look around freely and operate buttons/switches with the mouse. Look out of the window when turning final on a visual approach.And it is not less helpful in an airline sim. Head Tracking all the way!

Exactly. Just ask yourself this and then you have your answer: when you sit in a real plane, do you push a button to snap to the panel that you want to look at or do you just naturally turn your head to look at it? Not to mention VFR flights in general aviation aircraft (many of us aren't glued to tube liners), where you have to constanly look out the windows. I don't want to fly without TrackIR anymore. Ever. That would feel like being paralyzed.

Try flying the LLZ DME East approach with a circle to land at Innsbruck without TrackIR. While you're clumsily panning to the right to watch the runway, the airplane will be flying headlong into the mountain. TERRAIN, TERRAIN, PULL UP, PULL UP...Trevor

Here's a question for all you that use trackir. How do you get it to hold still to click a button? It drifts to much, I really want to use it.

Either by practice (after a while you get very good at hitting buttons despite the motion) or by pressing the button that makes TrackIR freeze temporarily. But that's only really necessary in heavy turbulence after a while.