Part of the answer to that question is that I have a secret weapon that helps me develop X-Plane at a much faster rate than any would-be competitors. People ask me all the time: “Austin, how can you compete with bigger companies? You cannot possibly stay in the flight sim business! You will be out of business by the end of the year!” (Never mind that they have been saying that since X-Plane was introduced in 1994!) Here’s what owner and developer Austin Meyer has to say about it: In the past, we’ve called the Mac our secret weapon. In fact, X-Plane is developed primarily on Macs. Looking around in a flight sim can be annoying because you can only turn the camera so fast with the buttons unless you have something like a TrackIR (which is at least $100 right there) to follow your head movements.X-Plane is the most powerful and accurate flight simulator available for personal computers, but it doesn’t just run on Windows the version of X-Plane sold here at runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. In some ways sims (whether flight, driving, whatever) are harder than the real thing, because in the real world it's easy to look all around, and you can feel what's happening as well as see it. Do lots of landings, lots of precision maneuvers (hold a 20 degree bank, or climb to 7000 without going over, or hold a specific airspeed - it's harder than you'd think). To learn, just get the sim manual out, along with a student flight handbook (I like 'The Student Pilot's Flight Manual' myself) and practice. My only complaints were that they were kind of stiff and so hard to be precise near the center, but that can be fixed with zip ties on the centering spring.

That'll at least give you a stick with a separate throttle, and they were pretty good.

You might be able to find a deal on a used Saitek X45 or X52. Pedals and yoke/throttle is much better, but you're gonna spend more than $100 on it.

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