The majority of real hovercrafts have handlebar style steering, based on all the ones I've seen in real life while off-roading and doing cadet/military stuff.
Oh and they're absolutely rubbish when it comes to steering, basically if you're hovering along and you see something in your way, you're going to hit it. The steering is extremely useless and sluggish, and if you try to slow down to avoid it you either keep coasting into it or the edge digs into the ground and throws you into it. Either way you're hitting it, it just comes down to whether or not you want to be in or out of the hovercraft.
I must say though, the things are a BLAST for off-roading. Only thing that beats them is off-road buggies such as this:
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Last edited by Cortexian; October 28th, 2009 at 12:49 AM.
The only thing I posted that doesn't benefit the thread was the very last part about the buggy. Everything else is about how real human hovercrafts work and how horrible they are to actually use.
The Ghost is a Covenant vehicle, hence the joysticks, humans are much more attuned to using other types of controls when it comes to land based vehicles. That's why joysticks are rarely used in anything but airplanes when you can't practically fit another type of control system instead.
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