Took this up for a spin earlier. My VKB stick doesn’t get any default bindings so I had to bind everything myself which took some trial and error as I had no clue what I needed bound for this. The cockpit has an actual regular yoke in it that rotates left/right as per normal but you have to use the rudder axis binding to do that which is odd, but whatever. Also there’s thrust vectoring commands to tilt the engines which I bound to my stick.
I tried to follow the checklist but got a bit lost on the way and ended up with half the things not powered on properly. Also it didn’t tell you about disconnecting from the mast, didn’t notice that. It’s in the ATC menu BTW!
The checklist tells you to open and close this or that valve during startup and everything but then later just tells you to trim it off which I’m not sure I did properly but after some fumbling about I ended up in the air.
At first it was really weird to control, just rolling from side to side, pitching up and down and struggling to maintain any sort of level flight, it’s a real lumbering beast. But after some trials and tribulations I ended up flying around New York at about 40 knots and keeping roughly level. You have to kinda think ahead, move the controls and wait for it to respond and don’t jerk it about too much. But also relesae the controls earlier than you think or it’ll go too far.
Things went a big haywire at one point and I bounced off a few towers, full throttle is not a good idea here. Then I landed at Teterboro, well more like a controlled crash. I slid across half the airport before coming to a stop. couldn’t connect back up to the mast again.
Despite not really knowing what the hell I was doing and struggling a fair bit I enjoyed the flight. It’s certainly something quite different from the norm. I just wish they wrote up a manual explaining things better like the valves and trimming and piloting techniques and procedures.
I hate the kerning on this thing lol