Moebius01

Thanks all. At this point, barring something unexpected, I'm starting to lean towards the TCA Airbus edition for a stick (seems to be getting some good reviews as an entry model that feels a bit more premium in the action) paired with a Saitek throttle. Eventually, I'd add rudder, and then hopefully one day grab a Honeycomb yoke to let me have the flexibility of either stick or yoke. Now, to the important research. Can a 49' active USB extension cable handle the controls along with a keyboard and mouse so I could run a cable to the theater across from the office and run flight sim on the projector. :)

I made the mistake of typing of my first post while I was on a conference call and multi-tasking a bit, and it disappeared. I'm not seeing anything about initial post moderation, so I'm assuming I just missed something while being distracted. If not, and the first post is going to show up, this one can be deleted. That said, let's try this again, here's the Cliff's Notes version. TLDR; go to the last paragraph. I was taking flight training when I was in school many, many moons ago (I'd wager my David Clark headset is older than a lot of folks on here :) ), and unfortunately ran out of funding when I was probably just a couple hours short of a private license check ride. Life gets in the way. Fast forward to 2020, I've built a new PC with pretty solid power, then I came across the hype for MS Flight Sim 2020, and decided to pre-order with the hopes that it will light a spark and eventually get me back in the air. Now, even as amazing as it looks, I'm not expecting MSFS to take the place of all of the training, but I'm hoping I can use it to re-learn some of the procedures, instrument scans, patterns, all that fun stuff. I say learn as opposed to re-familiarize myself as I'm sure tons of procedures, not to mention avionics have changed in nearly 30 years. That brings me here today. I know I won't be able to do this with any effectiveness using mouse and keyboard for controls, but as we're currently going on a single salary plus paying tuition while my wife goes back to finish her schooling, I don't have a ton of case to drop on controls or equipment for at while at least. If not, based on my early research, I'd probably be looking at a Honeycomb yoke paired to either the Honeycomb throttle quadrant if it was out, or the Saitek if not, plus whatever rudder pedals seem like the best bang for the buck. Budget-wise for now though, I can't justify plopping down that kind of cash, so a stick combined with throttle and maybe add pedals later seems a more likely option. My concern comes with wondering if a stick is going to mess with muscle memory or the like. All of my training way back when was in a Cessna 172, and I imagine when I'm able to get back in the air it will be something similar, so I've only ever used a yoke aircraft in the real world. So with that in mind, does anyone around here use a stick for sim but yoke for real world, and do you ever have to think much about it, or have any trouble switching (especially if using the same aircraft in a sim)?