

Personally, I use a monitor for the convenience however I encourage you to try both and make your own decision. Compared to a computer monitor, goggles are more realistic to fly with in FPV drone simulators as they provide a high level of immersion. This allows you to fly in the simulator with your goggles (or, as I have often joked about, using them as a screen in a public place to write an essay without disturbances). When plugged into the computer with an HDMI cable, the goggles can act as a computer monitor. Goggles such as the Fatshark Dominator series have an inbuilt HDMI input. Although I recommend using your regular FPV transmitter for simulators, I regularly use a dedicated controller pictured below (which is over a decade old) for the convenience of being able to leave it on my desk.
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You can learn how to connect your transmitter to the simulator through your drone from Oscar Liang’s here. My recommendation is to use a wireless device such as the FrSky XSR-SIM Wireless USB Dongle. Controllers can connect to the simulator using either the radio’s trainer cable port, a wireless simulator dongle or through the receiver on your drone. This allows you to quickly adapt between real world FPV and FPV drone simulators. I strongly recommend that you use the same controller you fly with for FPV drone simulators. If you want to simulate real FPV however, you can always limit the frame rate to 30 frames per second.Ī controller is an obvious requirement for the simulator unless you wish to use the keyboard. Higher simulator frame rates make movements feel smoother and more natural.

Newer computer hardware (such as an Intel i9 or Nvidia RTX2080) will allow the simulators to run at higher frame rates with better graphics. For the computing enthusiasts, an Intel i5 9600K CPU and a Nvidia GTX1060 GPU will quite suitably run all mentioned simulators. Most simulators can run on reasonably basic computers with minimum graphics & physics settings however a computer with a recent CPU and GPU is ideal.
