Turtle Beach’s new console controller for Microsoft Flight Simulator

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E3 2021 takes place June 12-15 as a re-imagined, all-virtual on-line occasion. Nintendo, Xbox, Bethesda, Sq. Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, Capcom, and others will ship new online game bulletins, trailers, launch dates, and extra.

We’ve identified that Microsoft Flight Simulator was coming to Xbox consoles for actually years now. This week at E3 Microsoft lastly gave us a launch date — July 27. What remained unclear to followers, nonetheless, was how they have been really going to fly these airplanes on a console. Certain, you could possibly use an Xbox controller, however the grass is very inexperienced on the PC aspect of the fence with a boatload of boutique controllers and high-end joysticks.

Worry not, console pilots, for Turtle Seaside has come to your rescue with the VelocityOne Flight Common Management System. It’s a full-fledged yoke and throttle appropriate with Xbox Sequence X, Xbox Sequence S, Xbox One, and Home windows 10. The announcement was made Monday in a information launch.

The VelocityOne is a one-piece yoke and throttle with tons of options that intelligently remedy a lot of issues inherent to taking part in a flight simulator on a console. As an illustration, it locations the triggers and shoulder buttons on the entrance aspect of the yoke. They are going to enable gamers to take care of coordinated flight and faucet the toe brakes with out floor-mounted rudder pedals, that are exhausting to make use of once you’re sitting on the sofa.

There are additionally light-up standing indicators constructed proper into the sprint. Meaning you gained’t must take your eyes off the windscreen on closing method to ensure you put the touchdown gear down. There’s additionally a trim wheel and swappable throttle fobs — similar to you’ll discover on the highly-regarded Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant. I particularly like the flowery schmancy chronometer proper in the midst of the yoke, which ought to make entry-level navigation loads simpler on newcomers. Most attention-grabbing of all is a set of light-up multi-function buttons on the right-hand aspect. They seem like the kind of factor that modders will wish to make clear stickers for.

The VelocityOne flight is well probably the most formidable new consumer-grade flight management gadget since that one factor they virtually made for Star Citizen. We’ll have to attend till this summer season to see if it lives as much as expectations. Retail worth is $349.95, and pre-orders ought to begin quickly.

Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Version

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The most recent PC appropriate flight stick from Thrustmaster is a reproduction of the stick used to fly the Airbus A320. It’s additionally absolutely ambidextrous, together with hot-swappable buttons on the left and proper aspect of the stick. For those who plan to construct a two-stick setup — excellent for Star Citizen or MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries — they’re simply the factor.