Flight sims invert only one axis, how weird.

Want your airplane to point towards something on the left side of the screen? Move your joystick to the left.

Want your airplane to point towards something on the top of the screen? Move your joystick down. Wait, what?

Ferret7446 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Er, that's not how flight sims work. Moving your joystick "left" rolls left. To "point left", you push your joystick left and then down and then back right (roll, pitch, roll). The model is totally different.

	▲	bigstrat2003 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That very much depends on the game. I cut my teeth on the X-Wing games, where the x axis was for yaw, not roll. To roll you would hold down the top joystick button and move the stick left/right. As a result, to this day I have to remap any game which puts roll on the x axis. It just feels wrong.

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flohofwoe 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Flight sims invert only one axis, how weird.

The reason is explained here starting at around timestamp 16:00, it's not weird at all but completely intuitive:

https://archive.org/details/the-secret-of-flight/Secret+Of+F...