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Would love to fly helos in FSX but have always been concerned about hardware required to fly them to achieve a realistic experience.
A question to all you helo operators.
What do you guys use and or recommend to achieve this ?

Primary requirement would be rudder pedals and a throttle quadrant , thats the closest with making a special controller . Twist grip and throttle combo simple don,t do it for me .

If you own a throttle quadrant, you can mount it verticaly (on its side) in the appropriate location and you'l have the cheapest fuctioning cyclic money can buy.

dont you mean collective AndrewJamez?

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 1 2011,1:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Primary requirement would be rudder pedals and a throttle quadrant , thats the closest without making a special controller . Twist grip and throttle combo simply don't do it for me .

That what I use for helos, it occurred to me a few days ago I could assign the twist grip to the throttle which is normally firmly on so I can hold it against the stop and use the throttle lever just for the cyclic collective. Anyone tried that before I start reassigning things ?

I use a logitech G940 set up, works really well

Hughes500fan wrote:

QUOTE (Hughes500fan @ Jul 6 2011,12:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

dont you mean collective AndrewJamez?

In the words of Homer Simpson - "D'oh!!" Tie me up and whip me. Yes I mean the collective. How could I be so stupied, I've flown and built RC heli's for years. Call it a blonde moment.

hahahahaha everyone has them Andrew but your idea is good, i wouldn't be able to use a throttle quadrant as a collective without doing what you said to do. i use a logitech xtreme 3d pro and thats good enough for me but i dont have a proper set-up, im just sitting on a beach chair with the laptop on a coffee table in the lounge room, so i wouldn't be able use rudder pedals