cinder1995,

The Real-Flight simulator came with a controller made by Futaba (two sticks). It feels very much like my e-Flight controller (Blade-CP). I think you can get serial cables to interface other controllers to FMS, but I have never done this. I have loaded my copy of real-flight on a couple of machines and the same license key works for both. The disk does not need to be in the computer for real-flight.

I was able to use my computer joystick with FMS a long time ago, that was fine for 3 channel planes, but you need a two stick controller for the heli's. I see there is a connector on the back of my e-flight controller but I did not get an adapter with the package (blade-CP).

I was pretty bummed to see that real-flight cost almost as much as my blade, but it has surely helped with the learning curve.

Steve