How to Lock Flight Controls for Hands-Free Cruising

Locking the Joystick with Redstone

Long-distance flights often require maintaining a fixed heading while you leave the pilot seat to inspect cargo, manage machinery, or walk around the cabin.

1. Align your ship along your desired trajectory and set your joystick to the required steering direction.

2. Supply a redstone signal into the custom joystick block.

3. The incoming redstone power locks the joystick in its current position, preventing it from snapping back to neutral.

4. You can now step away from the controls while the joystick continues transmitting its directional steering signals.

Setting Up Balanced Cruising

For stable automated cruising, combine the locked joystick with supporting flight modules:

• Set your modular desk's throttle quadrant to a constant forward engine speed.
• Verify that your gyroscope is receiving sufficient engine rotation so the ship does not drift off-level while unattended.
• When you return to the cockpit and need to change course, turn off the redstone input feeding into the joystick to restore manual pilot control.