Joysticks for Flight Simulator Logitech G940

One of the best Flight Simulator Controls on the market is the Logitech Flight System G940.

Logitech Flight System G940 provides simulator-grade flying with authentic controls and realistic force feedback. Its design is inspired by military and commercial controls for an experience that’s more realistic and more fun.

Force feedback lets you feel your aircraft react to air, turbulence, and g-forces. Plus a dual throttle, rudder pedals, and interactive, programmable throttle-base buttons give you the true-to-life control you want.

Logitech Flight System G940—authentic controls and realistic force feedback for a simulator-grade flying experience.

Take to the skies with the authentic controls and realistic force feedback effects of Logitech Flight System G940.

Designed to deliver the definitive sim flying experience, each component is carefully crafted with realism in mind. We looked to military and commercial planes and helicopters for inspiration. You get an experience that’s more realistic and more fun, with important controls that look, feel, and work just like the real thing.

Feel wind on your wings. Control engines together or independently. And master tricky maneuvers.

Every aircraft—from an A380 to an F/A-18 Hornet to a Comanche helicopter—behaves and feels like the real thing. From takeoff to landing.

Authentic design inspired by military and commercial planes and helicopters
An authentic design inspired by military and commercial planes and helicopters provides a flying experience that’s more realistic and more fun, with important controls that look, feel, and work just like the real thing.

Force feedback joystick
The force feedback joystick allows you to control your aircraft with confidence as you feel its movement as well as its reaction to air, turbulence, and g-forces.

Dual throttle
The dual throttle allows you to precisely control multi-engine aircraft using the split lever.

Rudder pedals with toe brakes
Rudder pedals with toe brakes give you true-to-life control, especially when rudder control is essential such as performing defensive maneuvers and crosswind landings, or piloting helicopters.

Interactive, programmable throttle-base buttons
Interactive, programmable throttle-base buttons integrate with simulation software and illuminate red, green, amber, or off to indicate the status of critical aircraft systems, just like they would in a real cockpit.

Reviews

“I bought this from Amazon, took the super-saver shipping and received it two days later, on a Thursday evening. The packaging was more than adequate and the controller arrived without a scratch on it. I’ve now had an entire weekend to play with it so these are my thoughts.

I run Windows XP and, like other reviewers, I ignored the CD and downloaded the latest drivers from the Logitech website. The programming software works ok, but is nothing special. My previous stick was the Thrustmaster Cougar and the flexibility of the Foxy software is in a different world to the Logitech one. That being said, however, I didn’t personally use the vast majority of those features and instead downloaded other peoples’ profiles from the web. Hopefully, the community will also supply a large number of profiles for the G940.

There is a minor nuisance with the software in that you can’t assign stick functions, program a profile or, in fact, start the software at all without the controller plugged in. This is inconvenient, but not a showstopper.

The stick itself feels good in the hand and has a slightly rubbery feel to it. It has a larger footprint on the desk than any other stick I’ve owned which, presumably, is to accommodate the force feedback motors. The micro-stick on the joystick that looks like a POV-hat isn’t, and the castle switch is instead used as the POV. Not sure that I particularly like that choice but the micro-stick can be programmed to act as a normal hat if needed. I’ve found I need to keep the dead-zone on the microstick axes relatively high to prevent unwanted inputs in flight as the calibration seems to drift slightly.

The throttle unit also feels decent in the hand but isn’t exactly going to win any beauty contests. The twin throttles separate easily and also recombine easily. The action is smooth and the friction adjustable. The lit buttons on the throttle base also function nicely as buttons and, I’m told, will function as working LED indicators in the future. One of my gripes with the throttle is about the R1 and R2 rotaries. It would have been nice to have had either a detent or at least some physical means of telling when they were centered without having to look at the painted line on them. But if you’re picky about that you can always file a small groove into the center-point yourself.

The pedals are lovely. Nice and solid, and wide enough for me. I’m 6″3 and find them pretty comfortable. I’ve never actually used any other sim-pedals before but I fly little single engine planes in real life so have a pretty good idea how rudder pedals should feel.

I’ve been playing IL2 and DCS Black Shark and have been loving the force feedback. At the default settings the feedback is nice and strong, and the force can be ramped up or down in the Logitech software to suit your tastes. Using the trim function in Black Shark and having the stick actually stay in the trim position is fantastic and actually ‘feeling’ your warbird about to enter a stall in IL2 really helps with both my flying and my sense of immersion in the sim.

The 3-axis trims on the stick are great in IL2 and incredibly useful. Once again, no ‘feelable’ center position but you can’t have everything.

One thing I did after a few minutes of using the stick was to put a little piece of tape over the “dead man’s switch”. This is a little sensor that detects whether the user’s hands are on the stick or not and turns down the force feedback if necessary. It’s a nice feature in theory but, especially in black shark with the stick in a trimmed position, I find the stick will jump around if I loosen my grip on the stick and no longer cover the sensor, so I took the decision to cover it up permanently. I just make sure to unplug the DC power to the stick if I leave it unattended.

Overall, very happy with the product with just a small wish-list for extra software functionality.” – Mr DZ Schneider

“As a professional simulator engineer this system combines in one package the essential tools needed to fly fixed wing aircraft. The advertisements state that this system is good for all aircraft, I specialize in helicopters and would not use this system for them.
Compared to other systems the price is well below the combined price of the competition. Having used all of the competing products at one time or another, Logitech got it right with this system. I missed the force feedback on my old flight stick and was actively looking for a true dual throttle when I found this system. The quality of this product is equal to the competition which says a lot considering the price. The serial connectors used to connect the pedals and the throttle to the flight stick were the perfect choice. Some reviews addressed this issue wanting each one USB instead. I personally like this feature because if I wanted to extend the length of the cables it’s easy to with a db9 extender cable (not a serial extender cable, some connections are missing), try doing that with USB. Besides some computers have limited USB ports and you need only one USB port for the entire system. At least this will save the cost a USB hub. The only draw back to this system is the price of the initial purchase. However, the professional flight simmer can not fly with only one or two devices. To really enjoy the sensation of flight you need these three components, so save your money to get this system.” – D Shaw

“Once set up completely, the Logitech system is great. It has control and feed back, plus all the shortcut keys on the units themselves. I have played with mouse/keyboard and single joysticks before on flight simulators, but with this setup I have more control of the aircraft and less button searching.

My only complaint so far is there is not auto set-up…having to configure the complete unit takes time. Don’t get me wrong, I like being able to fully customize the controls, but a basic setup would be nice to get used to the controls first before reprogramming the units.” – Luna Moth Wilkins

(Reviews posted from Amazon.com)