January 3Jan 3 52 minutes ago, P_7878 said: ...🙂...You said it, Jonathan, what I wished to say here... I would also add a bit...from my Xbox experience: "...just like in theory you can fully fly the plane with keyboard and mouse and an Xbox controller..." but an independent flight-controller hardware does the job much better... After a little practice I prefer to fly with the XBOX controller these days. The responsiveness is much better and way cheaper also. dd Edited January 3Jan 3 by Sky_Pilot071
January 3Jan 3 Author 8 hours ago, Christopher Low said: You can move the drone camera (relative to the aircraft)! You use the WASD keys to do it. Yes. That's right. Thank you.
January 3Jan 3 Author 1 hour ago, Sky_Pilot071 said: After a little practice I prefer to fly with the XBOX controller these days. The responsiveness is much better and way cheaper also. dd Check this out. I've been trying to buy this, but it's always sold out.
January 3Jan 3 I sim fly using a HOTAS controller with 3 hat buttons. One hat is dedicated to moving the drone camera, and a separate button to toggle it. Clockwise motion it's up, left, down, and right translations. Alt clockwise motion it's pitch down, yaw left, pitch up, and yaw right. With this I can get the exact external view I want somewhat quickly, though it took a bit of practice to learn. Being on my HOTAS it's always right there, and great in VR to get a quick outside view to admire the beauty of it all for a moment or two. Edited January 3Jan 3 by TheFamilyMan CPU: AMD 9800X3D PBO MB +200 CO -25| Motherboard: MSI MAG X870e Tomahawk WiFi | GPU: MSI RTX 5090 Ventus 3X OC | RAM: G.Skill 2x32GB DDR5 6000 cas 30 | M.2 SSDs: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2T, WD Black SN750 M.2 1T | Hard Drive: WD Black HDD 6T 7200 | Optical Drive: LG Bluray writer, internal | Cooling: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO | Case: Fractal Design Focus G | PSU: NZXT C1200 1200W Win 11 Pro 64|HP Reverb G2 revised VR HMD|Asus 25" IPS 2K 60Hz monitor|Saitek X52 Pro & Peddles|TIR 5 (now retired)
January 4Jan 4 On an XBOX controller there are at least 20 drone movements / actions mapped. dd Edited January 4Jan 4 by Sky_Pilot071
January 4Jan 4 16 hours ago, bailout said: I just use the wasdqe keys for moving and the mouse for rotation. Yes, that is true. In fact, I too use those Keys sometimes, though I’m an active user of the Xbox controller for such (non-pilotage) tasks. The multi-directional flexibility of the Controller throttles etc. affords precise and fluid degrees of freedom, usually hard to achieve with Keyboard and Mouse, but I shouldn’t probably say impossible. Whatever works for you and is proven…🙂…
January 4Jan 4 Need to add that my favorite drone feature are the set target actions. https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-tmus-us-rvc3&source=android-browser&q=msfs+2024+drone+set+target&sei=X3daabCCPZvNkPIP4pP3UA#lfId=ChxjMe dd Edited January 4Jan 4 by Sky_Pilot071
January 4Jan 4 On 1/2/2026 at 10:59 AM, Bigmack said: Yes. It's one of the best hand controllers for 2020 nd2024. Never fly without it. I own 4 of them. I just bought the Turtle Beach Stealth Controller - wireless and has several add'l buttons. Not cheap, but I like it a lot. Jeff Callender
January 5Jan 5 I just found out that you can slew the aircraft with the xbox controller the same way as moving the drone camera. I may never fly again 😄.
January 5Jan 5 another vote for using the xbox controller for drone mode. It's the best way to do it. 5800X3D, 4090FE, 64GB DDR4 3600C16, Gigabyte X570S MB, EVO 970 M.2's, Alienware 3821DW and 2 22" monitors, Corsair RM1000x PSU, 360MM MSI MEG, MFG Crosswind, T16000M Stick, Boeing TCA Yoke/Throttle, Skalarki MCDU and FCU, Logitech Radio Panel/Switch Panel, Spad.Next
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