Poll: Interactive Cockpits

[heywooood]

Eco - that was a sweet vid and what a way to interface with a program..I like the intuitive hand motions as they relate to specific manipulations of the displays...looks like a form of sign language.

For clickability - I was a naysayer and really pretty adamant about my dislike for clickable cockpit controls....until I actually used it in FSX.

As has been said, you can either use the mouse to locate and manipulate the control switches and knobs OR use the corresponding keyboard commands so it is NOT an either - or proposition....and believe me - this option really brings the virtual cockpit to life. You see the rudder trim wheel...you need to correct with left rudder trim..you slide the cursor over it and rotate the mouse wheel one or two clicks and you have the pinpoint control input that you need and instead of a dead control actuator slaved to the keyboard that is otherwise totally inanimate - you have a functioning trim wheel that actually works...virtually.

For preflight and in non combat flight I would love to be able to make the finer flight trimming adjustments or do the engine startup/shutdown proceedures with the mouse click method...and then in combat I would ofcourse use keyboard commands as they are much easier to do without any fiddlin'

It would be good to have the option and I think some here who are most dead set against it would have a change of heart if it was available -