MouseYokeEnhanced turns your mouse into the aircraft's control stick. Move the mouse and the plane rolls and pitches; hold a key to trim or work the rudder. It talks to the sim through vJoy, a free virtual joystick, so Flight Simulator sees it as an ordinary controller.
It's made for people without a joystick or yoke who still want smooth, precise control, especially on takeoff and landing.
- Two stick modes. Direct maps the mouse position to the stick. Spring behaves like a spring-loaded sidestick: nudge it and it re-centers on its own.
- Tune the feel. Sensitivity per axis, expo, deadzone, smoothing and auto-center, with a live response curve that shows what each slider does.
- Trim that holds. Pitch and roll trim on hold-to-move keys, plus a one-key reset.
- No jumps. Hold a freelook key or mouse button to look around while the stick stays put, center the stick and rudder with one key, and optionally keep the stick's position when you start or stop flying.
- Keyboard rudder. Smooth rudder on the vJoy Z axis from two keys.
- Extra buttons. Map any key to a vJoy button (gear, flaps, brakes, lights…) and give it a name. You get as many as vJoy is set up for; 16 is recommended.
- Every key is yours. Rebind or clear any command, on a key or a mouse button. Conflicts are caught, with a one-click swap.
- On-screen HUD. Four styles drawn over the sim, click-through, with size, opacity, background and position.
- Profiles per aircraft. Each keeps its own feel, keys and buttons. Import and export them to share.
- Stays out of the way. Compact window, close to tray, and the icon shows a red dot while you're flying.
- Safe by design. While flying, the pointer is held on the main screen so it can't slip onto another monitor, and keys whose release Windows lost (after Win+L or a UAC prompt) are let go automatically.
The Fly tab, shown at the top of this page, is the live view. The stick picture shows the output live: the green cross is the stick, the amber arrows are pitch trim (right) and roll trim (bottom), and the bar underneath is the rudder. The vJoy button lamps light up while their keys are down, and Keys in use lists your current bindings.
Press F9 or click Activate to start flying with the mouse. Press F9 again to get the pointer back for the cockpit.
The chip at the top right checks vJoy for you: green vJoy ready means all set; click it when it's amber or red to see what's missing. The ⚙ menu next to it holds the window options (always on top, close to tray, compact window) and About, with the version, the credits and links to the repository, its releases and the manual.
Pick Direct or Spring at the top, and turn on Hold stick position if the stick should stay where it is when you start or stop flying. Then adjust the Response sliders and invert an axis if needed. The graph draws the curve against a dashed linear line, and while you fly a green dot shows where the mouse sits on it.
Below, only the sliders of the chosen mode are shown (deadzone and smoothing for Direct, auto-center for Spring), and Trim & rudder sets the trim speed and turns keyboard rudder on. Double-click any slider to put it back to its starting value.
Commands holds every command: fly/standby, freelook, center stick, trim, trim reset and rudder. Click a key and press the new one, or a mouse button (right, middle, 4 or 5). Esc cancels, Backspace clears, ↺ restores the default.
vJoy buttons maps keys to joystick buttons. Click + Add key, press the key, choose the button number and name it. Then bind that button in the sim's controls.
A small click-through display drawn over Flight Simulator: stick position, trim, rudder and whether you're ACTIVE or in STANDBY. Choose the style, size and opacity, then drag it wherever you like with Position HUD…. Rudder and trim indicators only appear when the profile uses them, or you can show or hide each one yourself. Turn the background down to 0% for marks only (outlined so they read over a bright sky), and hide the status line for a cleaner HUD.
It also flashes ACTIVE, STANDBY, TRIM RESET or CENTER when you press the keys, so you know it worked even with the window hidden behind the sim.
| Sidestick | Minimal |
|---|---|
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| Strip | Classic |
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Shrink MouseYokeEnhanced to a strip with just the essentials (⚙ → Compact window), for a second screen, or drag the full window shorter on a small screen (the tabs scroll and the height is remembered). With Close to tray, closing the window keeps it running with your keys working. Right-click the tray icon to show the window, start or stop flying, or exit. A red dot on the icon, in the tray and on the taskbar, means you're flying.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| F9 | Start / stop mouse flying |
| Page Up / Page Down | Pitch trim (hold) |
| Insert / Delete | Roll trim (hold) |
| Home | Reset trim |
| Comma , / Period . | Rudder left / right (hold, with keyboard rudder on) |
| not set | Freelook (hold) |
| not set | Center stick and rudder |
All of them can be changed on the Keys tab, per profile.
- Install vJoy from github.com/jshafer817/vJoy/releases and restart if asked.
- Configure vJoy (once): open Configure vJoy, select Device 1, tick X, Y and Z, set 16 buttons, and apply.
- Start MouseYokeEnhanced (
MouseYokeEnhanced.exe). The status bar should say Ready. F9 to fly. - Bind the axes in the sim (once): Options → Controls & Sensitivity, pick vJoy Device, and assign Ailerons (mouse left/right), Elevator (mouse up/down) and, if you use keyboard rudder, Rudder (hold a rudder key).
Run the sim in windowed or borderless mode, and don't run it as Administrator, or MouseYokeEnhanced can't see your keys.
📖 The full user manual covers every option and has a Quick fixes section.
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- .NET 8 Desktop Runtime (x64)
- vJoy, device 1 with X, Y, Z and 16 buttons
MouseYokeEnhanced is created by Rangel Santos and published here on GitHub. It builds on the original MouseYoke (MouseYokeVJoy 1.0.0) by bbnycreamtea (flightsim.to), adding a new interface and new features. Thanks to bbnycreamtea for the original app. Joystick output goes through vJoy.
If MouseYokeEnhanced makes your flights better, you can buy me a coffee ☕ on Ko-fi or sponsor it on GitHub.
Enjoy the skies!