Hi -
I'm asking this question for my father, who loved flying RC planes until his stroke about 5 years ago. He's wheelchair bound, and totally paralyzed on his right side. He still gets his RC plane magazines and catalogs, and came across an RC flight simulator program lately - he wants to try it out. I'm worried that he can't use the radio controllers supplied with most of these programs, as he only has the use of his left hand, so I asked some questions, and was directed to this program. I've tried searching through the forums for answers, but I don't know enough about this program to make sense of what I'm reading. Can you all help me decide if this program would be usable for him?
Is is possible to fly planes in FMS with one joystick? I notice that some people use two joysticks, but that's not possible in this situation.
If so, is there a joystick that you'd recommend? Dad has a fairly new laptop, and uses it a lot.
Is there any tricks to setting up the joystick and the program? I'm pretty computer literate when it comes to installing programs and calibrating controls, but I can't write code. My thought is to first set up the program on my computer, work out the bugs, then set it up for my dad.
Any help and advice you could give would be apprieciated; it would certainly give my dad some joy to be able to fly again.
Thanks