While a gamepad does certainly not come as close to the controls found in a real plane, it still can emulate the controls more or less acurately. 
If your screen is large enough, flying from a comfortable spot on your couch may come to one’s mind. A wireless gamepad used in the way as described in this guide, offers you exceptional freedom in the sense that you are no longer tightly bound to a seating position from which all of the necessary input devices are reachable.Even if you call all of the above named devices your own, you most likely will still depend on a keyboard and mouse to be able to navigate the menus of your simulator und to handle switches and buttons inside the virtual cockpit, this means having to take your hands off frin the throttle and stick, which can be cumbersome, which is especially true for VR.All these things are not only an additional cost factor, but can also quickly come in someone’s way if your PC is not dedicated to your flying hobby.
Depending on your desk you may also need a suitable mounting solution to install your input decvices at a proper height.
While a joystick with a throttle can be considered the bare minimum to start out with, many more senior virtual pilots will say that you will also need a rudder pedals and a headtracking unit to take your experience to a satisfactory level. When it comes to comparing the price tag of a high quality gamepad with the one of a HOTAS- or yoke-based system, the gamepad is obviously the much cheaper choice, making it especially interesting for newcomers, who are just undertaking their first steps in the genre of flight simulation. This is something especially newcomers to the flight simulation genre may be facing or if you are a veteran virtual-pilot and are trying to get a friend interested in this great hobby, who does not (yet) own the necessary peripherials. These days joysticks have become more of a rarity compared to the heyday of flight simulators during the 1990s. Many people who own a gaming PC already own a gamepad to begin with. Gamepads, especially the ones name above, offer a high build quality and are very sturdy, which sadly is a virtue only few of the joysticks on the market can offer, that from my experience can break often and are sometimes hard to repair. While a joystick or yoke in combination with a throttle is probably the most obvious choice for controlling a virtual aircraft, the usage of a gamepad offers a number of advantages, which for some people can make it an interesting alternative:
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