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Old 10-12-2003, 04:37 AM
darren_uk darren_uk is offline
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Hi Daz,

Your thread reminded me of something: I went to the International Flight Exhibition a few years ago:

They had a helicopter simulator running on a PC - but what they were selling was the peripherals: cyclic, collective on the floor to the left of your chair, rudder pedals.

A pretty good setup!! I never got a chance to try it out, but boy, that would have been fantastic.

I only have a joystick on my PC, and although I can do an engine off landing in a real life JetRanger, I'm damned if I can do it on the simulator - the 2D screen and the small window onto the virtual world means I lose a lot of reference I'm using when I'm bringing a helicopter down after an engine failure in real life.
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