The Helicopter Question: Why a Stick Is Only Part of the Answer
The helicopter question is the one place where “yoke or stick?” simply doesn’t have a clean answer, and it trips…
June 16, 2026Every article published on FlightDeckSource.
The helicopter question is the one place where “yoke or stick?” simply doesn’t have a clean answer, and it trips…
June 16, 2026
People are genuinely surprised the first time they realise an Airbus airliner is flown with a little sidestick off to…
June 16, 2026
If there is one place the yoke-versus-stick debate has a clean, almost unarguable answer, it is general aviation. A GA…
June 16, 2026
This is the single most common wrong purchase I see in flight simming, and MSFS 2024 is where it happens.…
June 15, 2026
Every simmer who gets past the keyboard hits the same fork in the road: a yoke or a stick. It…
June 15, 2026
I am going to argue, on a website that earns its keep recommending flight sim hardware, that the best upgrade…
June 15, 2026
“How much do I need to spend to get into flight sim hardware?” is the question I get most, and…
June 14, 2026
If I could make every new simmer buy their upgrades in the right order, head tracking is the one I…
June 14, 2026
It is the first real fork in the road for a new simmer, and the one that costs the most…
June 14, 2026
You have the sim installed, you have flown a few circuits with the keyboard and mouse, and you have hit…
June 13, 2026
I will say the thing that gets me argued with on every sim forum: after your first analog controller, your…
June 13, 2026
Here is the thing nobody selling flight sim hardware wants to tell you: the order you buy in matters more…
June 13, 2026