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Jun 6th, 2009 at 1:05pm

jrom   Offline
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What is the best (preferably cheapest) way to connect swiches to the flight sim, i.e. be able to assign a swich that you bought from the store to move the flaps?
 
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Reply #1 - Jun 6th, 2009 at 1:28pm

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Jrom,

The cheapest way is to "hack" an old cheap joystick.

But you have to use a momentary button for the joystick buttons.  A latching switch will keep sending the button press as fast as the repeat rate is set.

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