Honeycomb Aeronautical is excited to announce the launch of pre-orders for the highly anticipated Charlie Rudder Pedals, the latest addition to its line of high-performance flight simulation equipment.The Charlie Rudder Pedals are designed to provide pilots with the most realistic and immersive flightexperience possible. Featuring a durable aluminium construction and all new innovative belt drive system, the pedals provide a revolutionary experience when it comes to feeling connected to the aircraft’s flight controls. Using the latest generation of magnetic Hall Effect sensors, the pedals have more precise coordination in flight and minimize over correction and are fully adjustable to fit…
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By Fabio Merlo. Today we’re talking about hardware that literally changed the way I fly : The Puma X Pro Flight Training. Thanks to the kind collaboration of PFT , we were able to obtain a sample of their new product , the fifth generation PFT Puma X . The PFT Puma X is the “ferrari” of helicopter controls in the world of flight simulation. Thanks to their hardware, many helicopter enthusiasts have approached the world of simulation. This is also thanks to the increasing attention that developers such as ASOBO / Microsoft and XPLANE have begun to give to…
The British team of TrackHat announced a new device : their TrackHat Sensor V2 is a head tracking solution with infrared detection, wireless, and without any tracker, cap or sensor to wear on you. It works in all lighting conditions of your room, and it’s also compatible with headsets and glasses. They expect to ship the first orders in 2 or 3 weeks. Features 120Hz smooth tracking. Machine learning for facial tracking. Powerful Infrared illumination: game in any setting. Always ready. Starts and syncs automatically with games. Headsets and glasses compatible, wont disturb tracking. Point tracking mode. The option to…
Octavi is a flight simulation control device launched via a fund raising campaign at Kickstarter, in one hand by an aviation professional with a PhD in aeronautical engineering, also a private pilot, and in the other hand by an industrial designer. Their initial and required budget has been greatly exceeded by more than the double, and the campaign will close this Thursday December 08th. Their project also states they plan to ship the device next March 2023. Octavi enables the control of the autopilot, COM and NAV, and even the squawk code. The small device has a double axis rotary button,…
Using a throttle quadrant is already a great immersion and control improvement when you have only used a joystick before. These last years, the selection of such products has increased with the arrival on the market of new brands like Honeycomb, and Turtle Beach beside already established companies like Saitek. You can improve even further the feel and look of your throttle quadrant levers by replacing the stock parts by new ones custom made by Prodesksim. They build different aircraft replicas controls, for Boeing 737 with spring-loaded flaps control adapted on the Bravo throttle of Honeycomb, or a Cirrus SR-20/22…
Honeycomb is a manufacturer to be seriously reckoned with in the Flightsim community, they aim for a mid/high end with well-built, feature-rich hardware, while staying away from high-end hardware prices, with a 5-year warranty. While keeping their first well-made Alpha Flight Control yoke in the catalog with a very interesting price-quality ratio, they announce in their following press release that the new version of their yoke is already available, called Alpha Flight Controls XPC. It is designed for Xbox Series X and S console simmers, but its improvements can benefit any type of user, since this new hardware is also…
https://youtu.be/T353mhj1BsU The latest cockpit replica that will expand the collection of Flightdeck Solutions is a new style of aircraft out of the usual airliners and big iron beasts. This time, the Canadian manufacturer is about to launch their AT-802-FTD to bring a homecockpit that reproduces the light aircraft of Air Tractor – a US company based in Texas – used for agricultural works, firefighting missions, or even for ground attacks.
https://youtu.be/cJlo2I7CiD0 The graphics card manufacturer Nvidia introduced yesterday their upcoming range of new generation RTX 4000 series cards, starting with the top performance RTX 4090 due for release on next October 12th. It will have 24 Gb of memory, announced at USD 1599. In late November, there will be two RTX 3080.. one with 16 Gb memory (USD 1199) and the other with 12 Gb memory (USD 899), and also less cudacores (less performance) but without difference in the models name (no Ti suffix here to distinguish beween those 2). If simFlight is, for once, interested in sharing these hardware…
American brand Honeycomb Aeronautical announces a new and improved version of their Alpha Flight Controls XPC yoke. In addition to dual Xbox and PC compatibility, a new design dresses the case, with an enlarged honeycomb mesh over the entire front face. We find the 14 buttons on the handle, plus the light switches, and magnetos. The other new feature is the now spring-loaded starter selector. They have opened pre-orders, but as with previous products, only from their official website for now. And this therefore means that deliveries are only possible for customers based in North America. The others will have…
When they initiate their TCA Airbus Pack series at Thrustmaster, you didn’t think that Boeing fans would remain without similar attention, did you ? Their solution TCA Yoke Pack Boeing to find a compromise between Boeing airliners design style, a wide range of controls including several functionalities of the throttle quadrant, and an affordable price range has now come to the European market too. OK, it’s not the price of just one or two add-ons, but for nearly EUR 500 you get two devices with an incredible look and feeling, with many controls in a handy manner. The throttle quadrant…