High-quality flight controls (yoke or joystick, throttle quadrant, rudder pedals) are crucial for effective flight simulator training, as they build better muscle memory and habits than cheaper ...

A good flight simulator is way more than just a game. As flight sim technology has gotten more and more accurate, and realistic tools have become increasingly affordable, setting up a simulator at ...

Developer Flight Sim Labs is in hot water after acknowledging that it has installed malware in its flight simulator product that it said targets pirate users of its software. Software developer Flight ...

A high-performance gaming laptop with an Intel i7 or i9 processor and an Nvidia GeForce graphics card, coupled with a G-Sync monitor, is recommended for optimal flight simulator performance. The ...

[Tom Stanton] has been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator a lot recently, and decided his old desktop joystick needed an upgrade. Instead of just replacing it with a newer commercial model, he built a ...

Asobo Studio has re-written Flight Simulator's engine to allow mid-range PCs to push great performance. Microsoft's Flight Simulator used to be one of the most demanding PC games ever made, but a new ...

The Xbox first-party games operation might be going through a painful period of ‘spinning up’ new development studios and integrating acquisitions, but while slower-moving in those areas, one key ...

Some students arrive at their first flight lesson surprisingly comfortable in a cockpit. They understand the purpose of most instruments and generally know what most of the various knobs and switches ...