Keyboard and mouse possible?

[Fast]

is it decent,.

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Keyboard is a must (g for gear, views etc.), mouse handy for clicking cockpit switches and things and adjusting settings, and can be used to fly plane.
But of course - you can't use one to fly and another to operate. I would get a joystick if you can.

Hope this helps!

[BN BN]

You ddfinitely can fly with keyboard and mouse, like all flight sims before this, but it isn't recommended. Basically planes primary flight controls and so many other systems are analogue, that it's a bit tricky to do everything with just the two axis of the mouse and one of the scroll wheel.

You can do it, but it becomes increasingly annoying over time when you want basic flying to become easier so you can focus on other things.

I used keyboard and mouse only on PC up until sometime during MSFS 98, when I got a cheapo joystick and never looked back.

It really is worth getting even a cheap one if you get into the game (if you don't already have it, go to X-Plane.com and download the demo). Don't worry about how expensive they can get, a Logitech 3D Pro is sufficient for anyone starting out and they've been around like 15 years, so they're $35 new, can be got for less than $10 used - well worth it.

Of course you'll still use the keyboard and mouse as Draco says - you basically have to build a home cockpit to get beyond that - but it becomes quite natural pretty quickly!

If you have an Xbox 360 or Xbox one controller they work out of the box too (I'd image other controllers also work... but I don't have them to test). Now they're not as good as a joystick obviously, but with a bit of configuration you can get a very usable setup that's much better than keyboard and mouse. I originally used one for playing flight sims in my laptop on business trips, but now keep an XB1 controller on hand on my primary rig too - I find controlling the aircraft on the ground in both XP10 and 11 to be so unrealistic that I prefer not to use flight controls at all once I touch down lol. Superb flight sim, horrendous taxi sim ;)

[skyace65]

I don't have X-plane 11, but I flew X-plane 10 with keyboard and mouse for a while. Joystick or Yoke is obviously better but I found keyboard and mouse flying much better than FSX

[FreeQuest]

Arrow keys and , . for frount back once you have the view you want CRTL-<number key on keypad> to save view then if you need to change view just press that key you bound you will have to do this for each plane.

Its what I do I also set a joystick key bind to reset to forward 3D view.