Hi,
I can’t imagine to fly without my virtual reality headset, as well as my HOTAS, yoke and throttles (depending on aircraft type) or my rudder pedals.
- TrackIR
- Littlenav Map
- Hotas control and rudder pedals
Primary setup
- Understanding wife with own entertainment
- Free time, depending on agenda and amount of CTD’s and restarts while beta testing (because in the current state i cant call it playing) the sim
- Laptop I7-107050 32GB Nvidea Geforce 2080 (crowfunding for new laptop via DM, lol)
- Wireless mouse
- Stable internet connection
- Positive vibes (increased necessity after updates)
- VKB gladiator joystick
- Hope (amount depending of the 2020/2024 version)
- Patience (especially with the 2020 edition)
- Addons (planes and airports). Yes these are primary needs because of the sub par aircraft in the vanilla editions.
Optional
- Virpil T50-CM3 throttle
- Navigraph
- Simbrief
- Snacks and cold beverages (exponential needs depending on flight distance)
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Home cockpit
VR
ActiveSky
BATC
Third-party airports
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Wonder if we’ll see Say Intentions working with DCS soon via SimAPI.
(I have no idea if DCS makes it easy to read the necessary data.)
Absolutely necessary:
Yoke: Yoko Yoke
Throttle: VKB STECS or Virtual Fly NQ6+
Rudder Pedals: Virtual Fly Ruddo
Stick: VKB Gunfighter
Computer: i9-14900kf, RTX 5080, 64 GB Ram, 6 TB of M2 Hard Drive space
Monitor: LG 45" OLED
Simbrief/Navigraph
Usually use but not mandatory:
Virpil Control Panel 2
Track IR Pro
Streamdeck XL
RealsimGear Autopilot panel
Airbus Captains Pack Throttle and Stick
2nd LG Ultrawide monitor (i.e., have 2 monitor set-up but could live with just one)
Virpil collective with KA-50 base: (for rotos, could use a throttle so not completely necessary but I always fly rotos with the collective)
Volanta
LittleNavMap
Lordys Xs and Ohs
iPad
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Not an addon, but stil, VR!
VSR Server
Navigraph
Simbrief
Vatsim Radar
All these sophisticated peripherals and 3rd Party products.
I’m wondering when we’ll see:
“All I need is my Xbox controller, keyboard, and mouse.”
“And this monitor. But that’s all I need.”
After all, the Xbox is a very popular platform, both for its ease of setup and affordability. (I understand that some of the peripherals - like Yoke and TQ - are being used by Xbox’ers.)
I’m being mildly tongue-in-cheek here, using a movie reference.) 
I’m Xbox this is my setup
But hotas keyboard and mouse are imo the basics needed
Nice to have is addon airports
Personally love the NZA Simulations stuff as fly in Nz mostly
Also nice to have addon planes quality is the key here doesn’t matter what you fly
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Very nice, I really like the un-cluttered simplicity of that.
Shame there aren’t much better flight controls available for the XBox though, to match your R3.
If only right would love the ab9 would have to figure out a floor center mount tho coz warbirds with ffb 
I used to have a sidewinder ffb growing up (still somewhere at my mum’s need to find it 
)
Next will be a Pc and I won’t be limited on what I can use then
It’s also uncluttered and tidy coz I have kids and they would destroy it otherwise 
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Aside from the simulator itself and a good wired internet connection, my enjoyment needs are modest: my laptop with 12GB VRAM, upgraded to 64GB RAM and 2TB, an auxiliary monitor (my TV), my Velocity One Joystick, Navigraph-Simbrief, FSiPanel, Beyond ATC, the Fenix A319, the ATR, the PMDG 737-600 (it’s the only reason I occasionally use FS2020), the A2A Piper Comanche, and a few airports in Southern Europe.
I’m happy with that. Some of your settings make me a little envious, but my budget can’t cover everything.
My wishes are for pedals, although I’m used to the twist of the joystick, and Tobii or TrackIr, but I can’t decide because I haven’t liked the HeadTracker apps I’ve used.
I’m on Xbox - I like my yoke, but can still enjoy the game with the controller.
The thing I can’t fly without is my MIAP Pro panel. Absolute gem.
Any kind of controler with analog axis. Joystick, yoke, or even gamepad with axis.
I used to fly long ago at FS2004 and FSX on keyboard. After some time I bought gamepad with axis (did that because I was traveling, so stick wasn’t travel friendly), it was way better than using keys.
Now I am using mid tier Thrustmaster T16000M HOTAS, it is great.
Everything else is not that important.
True, The X-52 pro here for over 15 years now.
The stick died a while ago and I switched to Thustmaster stick and rudders but the X-52 throttle is unbeatable (to me at least) and is still going strong.
Track-IR5 and litlle navmap always on while flying
Happy 
Hardware :
-Yoke (Saitek)
-Rudder pedals
-Joystick (For hunters or heli)
-Printer (for my flight plans 
)
Software :
- GSX
- Self loading cargo
- Third party aircraft (Fenix/PMDG/FBW and the ATR as an exception !)
- Simbrief
- Navigraph charts
- Beyond ATC/VATSIM
Others :
- No stutters / no FPS drops / no Blurry texture ! (hard to find but getting better and better !!)
- Time !
- A cat behind, or on top or trying to go under the screen (breaking the immersion…
)
Luckily my kids are older, so now I can share the flying rather than worrying about them breaking it!
I can see the point of FFB for driving, but less so in flight. Modern airliners are all FBW, so apart from the deliberate stick-shaker you don’t get much feedback through the controls.
I have a few hours flying small GA aircraft IRL, and while you do get a bit of increased loading as speed increases, it’s absolutely nothing like what you get from a FFB stick. Having a stick extension so you get realistic travel, a properly built gimbal with progressive cams & heavy springs, along with an all-metal grip that looks & feels like flight controls instead of a toy were more important for me, hence the VKB stuff:
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I have the same thing from back when it was Saitek, (and Comp USA was still in business!)
I absolutely love the plethora of buttons and axes - I can do 99% of what I need to do to fly without taking my hands off the controls.
Every other controller is woefully inadequate without the buttons and axes.
(I’m still dreaming about a set of rudder pedals)
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My first one was Saitek too. When the joining cable wore out, I was able to get one from Amazon for cheap - it’s just PS2 on both ends. But when the port on the stick section started to wear, I had to bite the bullet and get a new one from L’tech. I used it for a day to make sure it wasn’t a lemon, then pulled the bottom off the throttle and removed the detent spring and ball.
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