Control

What do the flight controls in a Traveller ship consist of?

For most things, it's a keyboard.  Let the computer and the autopilot do it because it's long and boring.

The game rules in OG LBB and G:T insist that the pilot is actually flying during the take-off and landing phase though.

How does he do it?

What I have envisioned...

To point the ship, there's the conventional stick and rudder.  A side stick (on the right side because FUCK YOU Airbus).

There are two controls for the level of thrust.  One is the big throttle lever (left of the seat) like we're used to seeing in a plane.  The second is a teeny thumb-wheel.  The teeny wheel is for fine control for precision work, like docking.

The Traveller maneuver drive is omni-directional.  To control the direction of thrust there's a track-ball like device in the center (where a conventional joystick would be).  The ball has soft stops in it so you have some tactile feedback that you've hit the cardinal points.  The ball is marked so you can look at it and see the thrust orientation and there's an indicator in the holographic instrumentation display.

On ships so equipped, there's a lever for the contragravity system.  Full back is off, full forward is zero weight and the mid-point is neutral buoyancy.  Since these effects are affected by the present mass of the ship, the engineer sets the true range this control has.

Thanks to high-resolution full-color holographic displays, a ship pilot can set up their "instrumentation" to be a chair hanging unsupported in space and have a full 360˚ view around the ship.  There are also conventional flat-panel touch screens.  What the pilot sees is very customizable, some pilots prefer to use the attitude and vector indicators and the windows at one extreme others prefer the full 3D wrap-around illusion; with every point in between as well.