Many people enjoy playing flight simulators or making the occasional ... the space (or NASA-sized budget) to build a full simulator cockpit is a USB “button box” that you can plug in whenever ...

and multi panel are driven by USB. As for the actual simulation, [Steven] is using a fairly powerful computer running Flight Simulator X with dual monitors – one for the glass cockpit and ...

Orange lights glow on dozens of instruments in the Airbus A320 cockpit ... panels. Using the pilot’s flight stick — a sensitive video game-like joystick — and throttle levers, you execute a takeoff.