For many aspiring pilots, using a joystick to fly an aircraft is not the most natural method of control. This is particularly true if you’re new to aviation where the yoke seems more comfortable, simply because most people are more familiar with using a steering wheel. In this review, I’m looking at the latest product from a company new to the world of simulation controllers but who have been designing and bringing to market many high-tech and gaming products since 1975: San Diego-based Turtle Beach Corporation.
VelocityOne Flight
This new product was designed to appeal to both experienced pilots and those new to flight simulation. It also has a few innovative features that no other presently available yoke offers. I guess the most significant of these are that it caters for both PC and Xbox players. Essentially, at the press of a button you can automatically change its whole configuration to suit the platform you want to use.
This feature and many more are accessed from a small full-colour TFT screen (43 x 35mm approx) on the front of the yoke itself. This is called the Flight Management Display (FMD) and is unlike anything we’ve seen on a yoke before. It has four small pushbuttons on the right of th…
