#4432666 - 08/03/18 12:08 AM
The best simming aid you ever bought
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462cid
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Title says it all.
Mine: a second, cheap PC with a monitor next to my simming machine's monitor. I can sim on my good machine and look up reference, watch tutorials, read online manuals etc while I'm in-game, no fuss no muss. I network between the two as well and it's great flexibility. Wish I'd done this 15 years ago.
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#4432670 - 08/03/18 12:39 AM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: 462cid]
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NH2112
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I think the best simming aid I ever bought was the Falcon 3.0 “Art Of The Kill” edition. AOTK explained more to me than all the tutorials did, after watching and absorbing Pete Bonanni’s instructions I found myself at the elbow almost all the time and even managed to dodge missiles more often than not. Except those deadly SA7s, there was no avoiding those! Not until the 3.05 patch, anyway.
A very close second were my various Thrustmaster setups. I got out of simming long before TrackIR was a thing.
Phil
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#4432671 - 08/03/18 12:50 AM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: Clydewinder]
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#4432688 - 08/03/18 04:52 AM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: 462cid]
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Brit44 'Aldo'
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I would have to find the box with the floppy, and it is slightly off subject. Falcon 3.0 bundle with the Thrustmaster TMS was the first computer game I purchased. Played it non stop and kept upgrading my 386 to get better graphics. Eventually, you could purchase a mod and a set of mod tools from the modder. I had to have it and it started me looking under the hood. Best software I ever purchased for my hobby time.
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#4432705 - 08/03/18 09:50 AM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: 462cid]
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DM
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For me I'd have to split it evenly with TrackIR, and my old Thrustmaster F-16 FLCS HOTAS. That thing really did change everything. I still own it somewhere but it's now replaced by my Cougar.
"They might look the same, but they don't taste the same."
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#4432723 - 08/03/18 12:24 PM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: 462cid]
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Spidey
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Wouldn't a good set of HOTAS and Pedals be the best aid...I know I wouldn't be able to fly without it. I can make do without all others such as trackIR.
"No power in the 'verse can stop me!!!"
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#4432725 - 08/03/18 12:41 PM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: 462cid]
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DBond
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Track IR. I see Spidey's point, and I'd rather have a Cougar and no track IR than the other way around. But I think we would view the HOTAS as essential, not an 'aid', but that's open for interpretation.
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#4432731 - 08/03/18 01:03 PM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: rwatson]
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DM
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OK guys you got me looking at the next obvious step to a Track IR..Only question is how does it affect frame rates??? I'm just on the border line with CLOD, BOS and IL-2 BAT It doesn't affect framerates at all, or at least measurably. The bulk of the directional processing is done in the unit itself.
"They might look the same, but they don't taste the same."
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#4432732 - 08/03/18 01:08 PM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: 462cid]
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PanzerMeyer
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I'm left handed so no HOTAS and pedals for me. My Thrustmaster joystick and twist rudder/throttle combo though has served me well for several years now.
Last edited by PanzerMeyer; 08/03/18 01:09 PM.
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#4432733 - 08/03/18 01:20 PM
Re: The best simming aid you ever bought
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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I'm left handed so no HOTAS and pedals for me. My Thrustmaster joystick and twist rudder/throttle combo though has served me well for several years now. My best friend is left handed and he's always flown left handed, using a CH Pro stick. I always bug him about it, at one time he was working toward flying fighters IRL so he would have had to learn to fly right handed there, especially the F-16, so why not get a real HOTAS and fly sims that way. But he refuses to try. Anyway, once I built a sim cockpit with HOTAS and Oculus Rift I had him try it out. He flew around just fine and afterwards I say "You realize you were flying right handed don't you?" No response, he still insists on left handed flying with a CH Pro / rudders / keyboard.
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