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  • Muscate June 17, 2015 at 11:35am

    This looks like fmkit's controller

    the main issue with it is that throttle is controlled by accel. which isnt very precise, and the wii joystick isnt super precise either.

    I feel like this one has the same issues..

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    Gary Mortimer June 17, 2015 at 10:58am

    Yes I thought of that when I saw this ;-)

  • Tobias Witting June 17, 2015 at 10:46am

    it is a bit like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BONCSOZuTjM

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    Gary Mortimer June 17, 2015 at 9:38am

    I'm slightly ashamed to say I'm a thumbs type as well. Largely because there was nobody to tell me otherwise in the 1970's in the middle of nowhere. I think with our requirement to switch switches frequently in flight it might be easier using thumbs. I know traditional RC fliers frown on it.

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    Chris Anderson June 17, 2015 at 9:35am

    I've always flown thumbs. Anybody who grew up with videogame consoles will be most comfortable with that. 

  • Nikola Rabchevsky June 17, 2015 at 7:46am

    I will never understand why people use thumb joysticks.  When I learned to fly R/C planes in the 80s, the guy who was teaching me always said to have a positive grip on the stick with the thumb AND index finger.  You get much more precise control over the stick than with your thumb alone.  A thumb on a stick is the equivalent of one ball trying to control another ball.

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    Chris Norris June 17, 2015 at 3:11am

    That's not too dissimilar to something i've had bouncing around in my head for a while. I was thinking along the lines of the Wii nunchuck kind of layout

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