Could there be a more daunting challenge in sim literature than writing a retrospective on the IL-2 Sturmovik series of combat flight sim titles? None that I can think of! So to help put more than a decade of work into context we have turned to the man behind the series, Oleg Maddox, to give […]
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Volair Sim Cockpit Review
Until recently personal cockpits have been considered something of a niche product, reserved generally for those that were rich enough to afford such a device. The other option was to try to build your own, a tedious and often ultimately more expensive idea. Luckily, over the last few years the cost of gaming cockpits had […]
Have HOTAS Will Travel – Part 2
or “Your Joystick…Never Leave Home Without It” by Bill “BBall” Ball After “Dr. Kozmo” applied his miraculous cure to the HOTAS, it was time to fire-up another mission. It starts with us at dawn sitting on the “Alert 5 Pad” chatting with JTOC, we get tasked to fly RESCAP on a downed reccee Hornet. The good news […]
Have HOTAS Will Travel
or “Your Joystick…Never Leave Home Without It” by Bill “BBall” Ball Webster’s Dictionary describes the word “LAN” as follows: “A network that allows the computers in a small area (such as an office) to share equipment (such as printers) and data — called also local area network.” Noah Webster might have been a smart dude, but […]