The Echo Aviation Controller puts a flight simulator in your hands

The other controls connected this formation sim gamepad means pilots won’t beryllium reaching for their keyboard arsenic frequently. | Image: Honeycomb Aeronautical

Honeycomb Aeronautical, a institution that makes formation simulator accessories similar formation sticks  and pedals that tin crook your table into a cockpit, has announced a compact alternate for PC pilots with constricted room. Its upcoming Echo Aviation Controller is astir the size of a console gamepad but squeezes modular features similar joysticks and buttons to 1 broadside to marque country for flight-specific controls similar throttle levers and a dedicated trim wheel.

The Echo Aviation Controller is expected to beryllium disposable successful mid-December 2025 for $149.99 done the company’s online store. It’s afloat compatible with assorted PC-based formation simulators, including Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it connects to a machine with a USB-C cablegram oregon wirelessly utilizing a dongle, according to Calum Martin astatine FSElite, who went hands connected with the gamepad astatine a caller event.

On the near broadside of the main controller you’ll find a thumbstick, 4 enactment buttons, and a 2nd conical joystick utilized to power a simulator’s camera. Meanwhile, the close broadside is wherever each the formation circumstantial controls are located: 4 throttle levers accompanied by a trim instrumentality that tin beryllium adjusted to support a plane’s altitude without further inputs.

On the bottommost of the Echo Aviation Controller are dedicated controls for adjusting the aircraft’s flaps, raising oregon lowering the landing gear, and activating the parking brake truthful you don’t have  to scope for your keyboard arsenic frequently. There are besides 2 sets of enarthrosis buttons connected the apical edge, and connected the backmost you’ll find a brace of sliding paddles that determination successful absorption and relation arsenic rudders, controlling the side-to-side question of your aircraft’s chemoreceptor and aiding successful steering portion navigating an airdrome and runways.

In summation to a hard ammunition carrying case, the Echo Aviation Controller volition travel with a postulation of interchangeable caps for the throttle levers  and different controls truthful you tin customize and easy differentiate each of them by their signifier oregon colour if you’ve remapped their functionality.