Not even sure what counts as inverted for flying, push the stick forwards = dive, pull it back = climb. Pretty sure that is normal for flight sims though because that is how you fly a plane. Space sims end up going with the same kind of input usually.

I always use inverted.

I first played flying simulators as a kid, and inverted makes a ton of sense. 3D shooters weren't really a thing yet, so when they became a thing, I kept using inverted controls and it was comfortable.

I can switch, but it takes some getting used to, and my error rate is higher.

That said, when I use a mouse, I want up (forward) to go up, and down (backward) to go down, so the inverted controls are only for controllers w/ joysticks.

As someone who uses scissor lifts a lot, I wish the manufacturers standardized on one way. Some have you push the joystick forward to descend, others will raise the platform when doing the same. I've damn near smashed some things in the ceiling going the wrong way for a second.

Well that's nice for dynamic people like you, but for dolts like me it will just mess me up trying to switch back and forth.

You people would have an aneurysm if you saw what I did with the rest of the controls to maintain consistency.

100%. Exactly the same.

I think the core of this dispute is the intuition of each person of what exactly they're moving and how they're moving it.

Like I have never once considered, until just now by reading your comment, that the stick could controlling my characters head. I've always intuitively thought that I'm controlling "the point in space that my character is looking at."

Changing this makes one way make more sense than the other. Like, despite my preference for non inversion, I would fully concede that if I were to imagine the stick controlling the head directly that inversion makes plenty of sense.

With a mouse, yes. With a trackpad? No

I find that for me this happens especially often in 3rd person camera control. And I think it has to do with the distance between the camera and the controlled actor.

Think driving a car, and the camera moving up close to the car when you're under something like a bridge which would otherwise clip the camera. At that point my preference for camera controll switches from 'orbit object' mode to 'aim' mode so to say.

Does that make sense?

I’ve never seen a flight sim with reversed controls. They all work like a real plane joystick from what I’ve seen.

Third person games as well.