I often feel like even with a HOTAS the throttle is a bit limiting. It's a lot harder to do anything that requires any sort of reaching, however small, in particular, yet some binds for me just aren't comfortable putting on the HOTAS no matter which way around I try them. It struck me while I was riding around in my SRV that foot pedals would be a great solution. I have feet, why not use them? I believe this game wouldn't even care if they are a separate controller as its control systems are pretty good, but it has to be something analog (too bad -- there are tons of super cheap pedals that are just a toggle switch that I could have just wired into the HOTAS, but obviously analog control is necessary.) Not just for the whole sweet spot thing, but some things (like landing) just don't work too well with an all or nothing while some things kind of need it (like actually flying through a system to a point 500,000 LS away where you really don't want that throttle less than 100% until you're actually close... Though it would lose the set and forget needed for Hutton Orbital, I only needed to go there once just to say that I did, lol.) I would also be able to dedicate my throttle to something else such as, perhaps, vertical thrust which might benefit from an analog control.
I've been looking around at a few options. My best bet is probably to buy something used and old (and probably getting worn out) on eBay, but it's really difficult to find anything particularly promising -- especially when you don't really have the right search terms. I keep either finding ultra-expensive ones intended for high-end flight sim rudder controls or some so poorly made I'm pretty sure they won't last. Not to mention just a host of digital toggles with no analog. Money is a huge issue for me right now and I know I'm treading on expensive ground here, but are there any sort of semi-decent options out there for really cheap pedals that would work for this? I'm thinking maybe of gutting some racing controller or something like that, but I'm just not even really sure and even most of those (sadly) do not come with foot pedals so start to become expensive when they do.
I've been looking around at a few options. My best bet is probably to buy something used and old (and probably getting worn out) on eBay, but it's really difficult to find anything particularly promising -- especially when you don't really have the right search terms. I keep either finding ultra-expensive ones intended for high-end flight sim rudder controls or some so poorly made I'm pretty sure they won't last. Not to mention just a host of digital toggles with no analog. Money is a huge issue for me right now and I know I'm treading on expensive ground here, but are there any sort of semi-decent options out there for really cheap pedals that would work for this? I'm thinking maybe of gutting some racing controller or something like that, but I'm just not even really sure and even most of those (sadly) do not come with foot pedals so start to become expensive when they do.
