Good man you are. I flew GA and gliders, even gyrocopters in real life here in Oz many years ago, retired for medical reasons now, so this sim is just the bee’s knees for me. Oh, and my auntie’s family lived on the Dudley road in Wolverhampton; many happy memories of visiting for Christmas there, including a white one in the 1950’s.
Happy flying!
Your body will learn! 
Been thinking about rudder pedals myself. I am currently using the twist grip on my joystick to control the rudder. I would be interested to know how you get on with your pedals.
Wishing you good luck and blue skies
I flew some more last night with the Honeycomb and I liked it. I have never touched a yoke before and am noticing that I want to push “up” on the yoke instead of “forward” to go down. That was weird too.
It is great having the new extra buttons to map. The action is smooth and responsive. It’s a little bit tight but like others have said, it will smooth out over time. It is the forward/backward motion that is tight. But, it is mostly the Yoke Actuator that is off!
Rudder pedals in this sim are the very devil until you get them set right. The options to set the sensitivity and exponential curves are not as good as they could be (I speak as someone who has to do this with transmitters for r/c model planes where landing a plane coming towards you is hard enough as it is).
Get it wrong and you are all over the place in this sim on take off and landings; just as bad, you can’t easily fly coordinated turns when in the air, or finely control side slipping on approach or centre on final.
I have the Thrustmaster pedals and I have to say I hate them, but have learnt to set them up so they are tolerable. I suspect most other affordable pedals are probably just as crummy.
Nothing like the feel of the real thing for sure. I should post my settings, but it’s late here and I’m tired and off to bed. But you need a decent dead zone and a curve that is very mild around the centre mark.
Oh and don’t push against your other foot, just ease on one foot and ease off the other at the same time. Also take your shoes off and use just socks or bare feet with affordable PC rudder pedals, it helps a lot, at least for me..I’m old and the signals from my feet take ages to reach my noodle.
Thanks for the advice, Mate!
So far, so good with the pedals. Right pedal to go right is weird too. I have tweaked the sensitivity. Think about it. You push up on the yoke with your left hand to go right. But, you push the right pedal to go right? I bet it goes back to 1910-1930 and the pulley systems they had to use to push/pull the rudder.
Sorry for the thread derailing, everyone.
What a GREAT day!!!
My overpriced joystick arrived last night; I hooked it up, had a gander at how FS mapped the buttons; and went for a test ride.
I am 71, have never flown, nor do I play any other flight sim (or flying game). I’ve got a large, Stage-1 meningioma (coming out next month) causing me some hand-eye issues; serious hand tremors; and rheumatoid arthritis that makes holding the stick with authority kind of a challenge – but I am adventurous
When I was little, my paternal grandparents lived in Beaverton, Oregon, and owing to their long midwestern roots, they loved driving to the Oregon Coast, and I was quite often along for the ride.
So, with today’s first real solo flight (no co-pilot whatsoever), I took off from Pearson Airpark, in Vancouver, Washington, and followed Interstate-5 to downtown Portland, then west toward Beaverton. I picked up the old Sunset Highway and followed it out of the mountains to Tillamook. When I reached the coast, I turned north and landed on the beach at Seaside, Oregon. It was a totally beautiful flight – I never exceeded 2000 feet altitude, and following the old twisty highway meant I had to thread my way through the coastal range. Picture below is my Cessna 152 stopped on the beach – I couldn’t resist the easy beach landing.
I know this won’t sound like much to you old hands, but this was huge for me. I now know I can do this. I crab a lot about FS’s current flaws, but today’s solo flight puts all that out of mind.
PS: Was so amped about the foregoing, I researched how to do a cold start , lifted off the beach and followed the Columbia River east, back to Vancouver (Pearson Airpark). I stuck my landing, but the plane veered unexpectedly off the runway – wasn’t pretty, but I got down safe and didn’t break anything. 
Fun, ain’t it? I did something similar a few days ago. An 11 year old was looking over my shoulder and asked if the Egyptian pyramids were in the game. 'Let’s see ’ I said. Located Cairo, flew off to the desert and there they were. Circled around them with the Drone, then landed the 172 next to the Sphinx. ‘Cool’ he said. ‘even the sight-seeing buses are there and you didn’t crash into them!’
Couldn’t lift off, too bumpy to roll up to speed.
Cool, Gunny! (BTW, I’m a retired Marine MSgt). So many things I want to explore – especially hoping an aircraft capable of takeoffs/landings at Lukla (near Mt Everest) will be introduced.
Tried my hand at making the Nagoyako facilities into a 3-D scenery. Messed up the water, but I think I’m onto something. I wish I was more patient. I still don’t get the controls and messed up a few times. At least it does not mess up the game when you get out of developer’s mode. I need to get google water below the game’s enough that it matches the game’s, but still high enough that I get the google land scenery. If I get it to work it will look something like this. This makes me respect the developers even more knowing how confounded it is.
https://goo.gl/maps/U3k1Ytp1yn2UoCjt9
I had a great viewing/spectating of JFK online west europe server past 40 minutes ago, plenty of airport activity
I’m not sure when to upload on youtube, maybe tomorrow or sunday
Took my experimental Flight Design CTLS with a retrofitted Pipistrel E-881 electric engine (weight and engine performance) to it’s ceiling in ISA atmosphere.
Got to 16000 ft, which was a lot.
Going back down took some time …
A little high on final, crabbing it in.
Still 23% battery left!
Some questions raised by my test:
I don’t think it works that way. That bridge hasn’t been modelled specifically for that location and placed there. If it had it wouldn’t broken.
This bridged was included using AI routines probably from blackshark.ai so I suspect that’s a mechanic which needs refinement to cover more edge cases, it’s the same in Seattle and New York, well everywhere really.
I worked out - with help from Google Search - how to get my very old (it uses an RS232 to USB converter) MS joystick to work, and to allocate buttons and what not, to various functions. That took a long time but I got it working, miraculously. The thing I liked, unlike the previous versions of FS (and I go back a long, long way) is that I could get the POV to operate as a proper trim switch for ailerons and elevators, just like in my real aircraft, the Vulcan. The rest of the buttons I don’t care much except the trigger which I use as brakes.
So I got airborne and crashed. Then I found out that the control responses could be fine-tuned. That was done - in small steps - and proved to be a most valued calibrating facilities. Then it was late and I went to bed.
here it is
Congratulations, sir! I’ll be passing 50 hrs today (still a newb). I’ve soloed on the four aircraft I fly most (152, King, CJ4, and Longitude), and finally figured out how to engage and use autopilot, though I’m finding it sometimes buggy (or I’m making a mistake somewhere. Loving this game despite many needed fixes.
Nice! I am reaching to 100 h, but why i dont see any archiviament there? I have got 22, but i see nothings! I know that isnt the wright topic for this, but i see your photo and i dont want to intasate the forum with more topic. Thank for support.
Here a photo:
Sincerely
Filippo
Hi Filioppo
I’m not answering your question at EvidenzPLz
but:
Firstly: Well Done 
Secondly: I wanted to ask to you why you have so much free time. No demand for pastry at this time?
With your Friend marker it was easy for me to see on the sim world that you have been flying everywhere at all hours of the day to get your 100 hrs.
Keep doing that and try to be the youngest pilot on the forum to first reach 500 hrs (without neglecting your pastry chef training of course).
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family.
