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I have an old joystick that I was thinking of turning into a throttle quadrant. The problem is that it is a gameport connection. I currently use a USB joystick to fly. Does anyone know if I can mix the two types of controlls?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin

I dont see why you wouldnt be able to as long as the gameport joystick works.

Affter posting I thought "why not try it".
It works perfectly.
The joystick has now been unassembled and tomorrow I will start construction of the new twin engine throttle quadrant. I will also have 4 new butons to use for something, Imagine the possibilities!

quick question reguarding joysticks, do most joysticks with analog throttle control compensate for reverse thrust at all? just wondering cuz I am working on my own cockpit simulating the 777-300 and need this stuff planned out as much as possible.

I'm not really sure on that. Im not using the throttle from the joystick, actually I broke the slide pot that was the throttle trying to get it out of the housing .
I am using the two pots that were the X and Y axis of the stick as throttles. This works perfectly for me as I usually fly twin prop aircraft. Not really into the big stuff (unless it has a UPS paint job). As I usually have no need for reverse thrust I have never thought abot it before. Check out some of the other posts here in the homebrew section and im sure someone could answer this.

The CH site says you cant but I mix my game port CH stick with USB microsoft pedals.

Yeah I noticed the same thing on the CH site. Guess they didn't do any research on this as I am now useing both the usb M$ stick and the new throttle quadrant made from the CH stick and have no problems at all.

Knightstryker,

Do you have any photos of your new throttle quadrant you can post to a new thread?

best,

..................john

unfortunatly no pics as I have no camera.
I got the idea from another site to use legos and as I have a couple million of them (no I am not exagerating) I thought "why not try it. Throttle still needs a little design tweaking but it does work great and really adds to the realism of the sim. I find myself sitting on the runway just throttling up and down sometimes and I taxi all over the airport just to play with it. Maybe that makes me crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way  :P.