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Hand Tracked Cockpit Clicking is a lightweight utility created by Fred Emmott that bridges modern virtual-reality hand-tracking hardware with the legacy mouse-centric cockpits of Digital Combat Simulator and Microsoft Flight Simulator. By translating OpenXR hand poses or PointCTRL laser-pointer data into standard Windows mouse events, the tool lets pilots flip switches, rotate knobs, and interact with touch-screen panels without reaching for a physical mouse or HOTAS button, preserving immersion and reducing muscle memory load during critical flight phases. The software runs as a background OpenXR layer, so it is compatible with any headset that exposes hand joints through the OpenXR runtime—ranging from Meta Quest Link to Varjo Aero—while a separate PointCTRL mode offers sub-millimeter fingertip accuracy for users who prefer that wearable emitter. Version 1.6.0, the fifth public release, adds adjustable gesture sensitivity curves, a calibration wizard for non-standard cockpit scales, and an optional on-screen hand proxy so streamers can demonstrate interactions to viewers. Because the utility only remaps input, it leaves the simulator’s native VR rendering path untouched, maintaining performance budgets already strained by high-resolution terrain and weather add-ons. Typical use cases include helicopter pilots who need frequent radio panel adjustments, war-bird enthusiasts wrestling with tiny circuit-breaker rows, and airline crews practicing glass-cockpit flows where multi-touch gestures speed up FMS programming. The entire project is open-source under the MIT licence, allowing cockpit builders to fork and tailor gesture definitions for custom switchology. Hand Tracked Cockpit Clicking is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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