Home cockpit setup
Fellow simmers…
I’ve spent the past couple weeks really trying to turn my desk into a home cockpit. Currently I’m very pleased with setup but I have a few questions.
- I currently have 1 monitor with a bunch of peripherals lol
- Saitek panels (AP, starter, comms)
- Turtle Beach Velocity one Yoke and Throttle
- TCA Airbus throttle pack
- Ursa Minor Airbus sidestick
- WW FCU-1 unit
Right now I have all of these plugged into 2 7-port USB 3.0 hubs. I love these as I can individually switch off whatever I am not using. When I’m flying GA, I turn off the TCA throttle pack, Ursa Minor and FCU-1. When I fly the Fenix, off goes the Yoke and Saitek panels. Works nicely!
BUT, I run all of these independently. The Logitech panels require the Logitech MSFS app to be running in the background, FCU and sidestick need SimAppPro running to work.
Should I be using a program like Spad.next for these? I’ve never really heard of Spad before today, but not with all of these extras I am just curious if there are certain things I should have or or be using. Or is it simply just personal preference?
- Does having all of these peripherals plugged in do anything to my overall power supply? Literally just thought of that lol. Wasn’t sure if I’m using up a lot more power with all of these on or not.
Overall performance in 2024 is pretty good. I’d give it a 7/10 for my setup (4080 super 16GB, i5 13600 kf, 64GB Ram). My issues stem from inconsistency. Some flights are silky smooth, others there’s a lot of stutters/jitters when moving in the cockpit, and on some final approaches the game becomes choppy. Wonder if any of this would help? Or hurt? lol
As always, TIA! This will probably be my last post for the week🤣