The throttle control is a bit small, but the controller base also includes a lever for ship flaps, giving players even more control over their flight. One of the coolest aspects of this joystick ...

Over the last two years, [benkster] has been perfecting their ideal flight controller. Like many people, they started out with a keyboard and mouse and eventually moved on to a joystick.

[Tom Stanton] has been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator a lot recently, and decided his old desktop joystick needed an ... which is too small to allow for high resolution with a potentiometer.

For many moons now, the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog has sat at the top of our best joysticks ... at flight games, but having a predictable, heavy action under my wrist means that small movements ...

Check the Joystick enabled option if a joystick is connected. If not, Google Earth will use your keyboard and mouse by default. Click on Start Flight and the Flight Simulator will begin.