JOYSTICK - A single floor- or roof-mounted control stick"sideways movement produces ROLL, and forward/backward movement produces PITCH (rudder pedals produce YAW).
Joystick: A colloquial term for Control Column, the primary flying control of an aeroplane or glider which is linked to the ailerons and elevators. It controls the aeroplane in the rolling and pitching planes.
Move both joysticks to the top-left position, which will start the rotation involved in a knife edge spin. You can move the joysticks to the top-right corner, but the left seems to work best (perhaps due to the torque of the engine).
A yoke or joystick, which controls rotation of the aircraft about the pitch and roll axes. A yoke resembles a kind of steering wheel, and a control stick is just a simple rod with a handgrip.
About the Mouse, Joystick, and Rudder
I'll not belabor this point (and I know old habits are hard to change), but in my books I have consistently recommended using the keypad or keyboard yoke (in preference to the mouse or joystick), ...
You'll also want to purchase at least a joystick for use with this program. Why? I'm the instructor on Microsoft's Flight Sim (2000, 2002 and 2004). I wrote the solo, private, commercial and advanced flight training lessons for this program.
It is like a joystick, and can be moved up, down, left and right. The pilot uses this to neutralize stick force. If air loads from the rotor system are holding the cyclic to the left, the pilot can push the trim switch to the right.
4 If you can use a 'second generation' GPS set, such as a Bendix/King Skymap III with a large moving map and a joystick for moving a pointer around so as quickly to define waypoints, you will be considerably less error prone.
A handheld GPS set ...
The cabin measures a full 45 inches across, making the Star wider than everything in the class except the SOCATA Tobago. Joysticks replace yokes to free up more of the instrument panel, a special benefit with the flat-panel Garmin G1000 system.
Pilots who have only flown aircraft with yokes are amazed how quickly they become accustomed to sticks. If they're not totally comfortable with a joystick by the time they've taxied to the runway, ...
Stick: Steering Control stick of an airplane; "Joystick"
Stinger: Slang for "tail gun position".
Stooging: Delaying, flying slowly.
Strafe or Straff: Dive at or otherwise attack ground targets with gunfire.
 See also: Pilot, Speed, Plane, Aviation, Wing
  
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