January 20, 20215 yr I have my first VR. Oculus Rift S. I've been using it for about 2 weeks. I like the immersion factor. I recognize the visual quality difference from using a monitor. I have the Honeycomb yoke. This week I will be receiving the Honeycomb throttle. I think it would be totally impossible to take advantage of all the features in the throttle using VR. I would appreciate all your opinions on this topic. Thank You. Bill McCracken
January 20, 20215 yr Commercial Member 31 minutes ago, macpilot said: I have my first VR. Oculus Rift S. I've been using it for about 2 weeks. I like the immersion factor. I recognize the visual quality difference from using a monitor. I have the Honeycomb yoke. This week I will be receiving the Honeycomb throttle. I think it would be totally impossible to take advantage of all the features in the throttle using VR. I would appreciate all your opinions on this topic. Thank You. Bill McCracken Yep. That's the long and short of it. Anyhting else is merely hyperbole. Dave Hodges System Specs: I9-13900KF, NVIDIA 4070TI, Quest 3, Multiple Displays, Lots of TERRIFIC friends, 3 cats, and a wonderfully stubborn wife.
January 20, 20215 yr Simply because it is great to have a LOT of functions readily under your fingers. No more fiddling with the mouse around a twitchy VR displayed knob or switch. Fast and intuitive access to heading or altitude, flaps, speed brake, gear, lights, mixture and prop, reversers.. you name them. I have the Honeycomb throttle for two weeks and can tell you that it makes a hell of a difference. I would never again want to fly without it.
January 20, 20215 yr Commercial Member On 1/20/2021 at 12:35 PM, SimFx said: Simply because it is great to have a LOT of functions readily under your fingers. No more fiddling with the mouse around a twitchy VR displayed knob or switch. Fast and intuitive access to heading or altitude, flaps, speed brake, gear, lights, mixture and prop, reversers.. you name them. I have the Honeycomb throttle for two weeks and can tell you that it makes a hell of a difference. I would never again want to fly without it. The Bravo Throttle Quadrant was initial forecast/dreamt about roughly 40 years ago at a flight sim meeting at a public library in San Diego somewhere between Rosecrans and Point Loma. I know, because I was there at the meeting! Honeycomb CEO Nicki Repenning breathed life into the Bravo about 3 years ago and today it's a reality for thousands of flight simmers. I know this as well, because I've worked for Aerosoft for roughly 15 years and I worked for Honecomb until December when I accepted a position with another company in the family, Snakebyte-Group. The Bravo is just so much more than a high quality, flexible and fully reconfigurable throttle quadrant. I had an old Saitek Switch Panel mounted in front of me along with a Radio Panel and Multi-Panel (Autopilot Panel) and while I used the Radio Panel the only other thing I used was the gear lever on the Switch Panel (I fly airliners, so...). With the Bravo, I didn't need anything else! And the Bravo Trim Wheel? Amazing! I can't tell you guys about our future products, except to say that I'm excited! To answer the OPs question... VR is great, but I'm a hardware guy and that's all there is to it for me. Edited January 30, 20215 yr by DaveCT2003 Dave Hodges System Specs: I9-13900KF, NVIDIA 4070TI, Quest 3, Multiple Displays, Lots of TERRIFIC friends, 3 cats, and a wonderfully stubborn wife.
January 20, 20215 yr 17 minutes ago, DaveCT2003 said: And the Bravo Trim Wheel? Amazing! How could I forget about the trim wheel! It has been the feature that first and foremost attracted me to this hardware. Not that it is much needed in airliners flying, but I'm flying a lot of GA where correct trimming is essential. Well, with the Bravo it has gone from pita to pleasure 🙂
January 21, 20215 yr I use the Rift S and the Alpha/Bravo. They are an amazing combination. The autopilot took a few flights to get the muscle memory down, but believe me when I say the immersion is enhanced a lot with the honeycomb kit. Matthew Maclauchlan
January 21, 20215 yr I use the Rift S and the Alpha/Bravo. They are an amazing combination. The autopilot took a few flights to get the muscle memory down, but believe me when I say the immersion is enhanced a lot with the honeycomb kit. Matthew Maclauchlan
January 21, 20215 yr Author The throttle is expected to arrive today. My problem with VR is I always hit the wrong keyboard key. Will Virtual Desktop allow me to see the keyboard in virtual? I have the yoke but having problems assigning CTRL+TAB and TAB to yoke buttons. I have other buttons assigned to different functions but can find a way to assign these. Thanks to all for your feed back. VR to keep Or not to keep! Bill McCracken
January 21, 20215 yr CTRL TAB and TAB should just be thought of as placeholders. For my CH yoke I've replaced them with POV UP and POV DOWN. Those were just the defaults assigned by the sim. You can change them to anything. You don't have to keyboard emulate them etc. Make them both something easy to do via touch / memory, and you should be good to go. Don't have Bravo, but definitely want one. Like anything in VR, it's a matter of repitition and familiarity by touch. I imagine once you have it memorized, there would be no difference from flying on 2D monitors, that BTW I'll never do again.....
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