Bagging the best PC joystick is a great way to pilot a Tie-Fighter in Star Wars: Squadrons or fly a plane across the globe in Microsoft Flight Simulator ... control that a gamepad or a keyboard ...

Anyone with more than a passing interest in flight simulators will eventually want to upgrade their experience with a HOTAS (Hands On Throttle-And-Stick) setup that has buttons and switches for ...

A standard gamepad can do the job ... two-button-row layout commonly seen on arcade uprights. In fact, the fight stick market was essentially birthed when ridiculously popular fighting games ...

The Sol-R 1 flight stick works with Thrustmaster’s Viper and Hornet grips, too, and the company says it will be compatible with future grips. The Sol-R 2 HOSAS combo gives an even more immersive ...

Most players will find the best one for them by choosing a flight stick based on a few specific ... while others offer thrust controls or even the full gamepad spread of ABXY buttons and a D ...

and it sure looks like Microsoft Flight Simulator is doing its part to keep the scene lively. [Akaki Kuumeri]’s latest project turns an Xbox One gamepad into a throttle-and-stick combo that ...

The Thrustmaster F/A-18 Super Hornet follows on that same line of thinking, dovetailing beautifully with its sister product while offering a fantastic flight stick in its own right, packed with ...

Updating them is a simple process that just includes loading the firmware file, plugging in each flight stick individually, and waiting for the update to be confirmed. Thrustmaster nails the ...