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Westbury

Hello everyone... not used flight sims for a while. Last on with FSX.

Found this and treated myself to an airbus stick and here i am !

Retired and other interests are motorcycles and playing guitar.

stuartc

Welcome to the Nuthouse.

You should probably avoid playing the Guitar and Motorbiking. Could be quite unsafe. Best keep both hands on the handlebars.

Avionyx

Hello @Westbury !

@AndyB385 has an airbus stick and would be able to help if you need any guides to setting it up.

What kind of flying do you like doing? If you like airliners then the MD-11, A320 and A330 for FlightGear are about as good as it gets in the airliner categories. There's also some business jets (Citations of various flavours) that are good representations. We also have some nice twin GA and single GA aircraft for the serious types.

Here at our hangar we've got a selection of Heli's from Stuart and others that are world class and certainly fly more realistically than a lot of other sims - some even have commercial grade cockpits.

For the more casual flying we've plenty of stuff in our hangars.

If you're up for a right load of nonsense we get together every Saturday night at 8pm and talk rubbish and fly and enjoy the scenery together for a couple of hours.

For any help you need, or any setup issues, just post on here and we'll get it worked out. There's lots of ways to improve flightgears looks and performance that perhaps aren't documented too well and I imagine most here know a few tips and tricks to help you on your way.

Alex

Westbury

Hi and thanks for the welcome.

Using 2024.1.1 after a just a few days trying the earlier release. Going ok so far, got the stick working well and set up a few of the buttons.

At the moment just flying the simpler light aircraft / GA stuff and finding my way around the sim. Not even finding my way back to the airfield yet ! So still a way to go....