r/hotas

I’m currently drowning in a sea of modifiers, hat switches, and dual-stage triggers. I spend more time looking at my reference chart on my second monitor than I do looking at the sky.

For those who have completely mastered their setups: how long did the "clunky" phase last for you? Did you learn it all at once, or did you map things incrementally?

I’m pretty well versed in the whole aviation sphere. So I’m not worried about not using it or diving to deep as I want the fly f-18s and other modern jets mostly I play mostly war thunder right now since I use MnK mostly but will most likely get sucked into dcs once I can actually play it. But I’m incredibly torn between just getting the gunfighter mk4 with the MCGU grip also from vkb vs the moza ab6 with later down the line picking up a MCGU grip for it as well. I’m just curious what yall with experience would say I’ve seen ffb isn’t good for fly by wire? Is the ab6 dogging really as bad people say even if you don’t have anything else to compare it to? And I will most likely pick up the vkb stecs standard throttle unless anyone else has any inputs and the virpil constellation grip is a consideration but I’ve seen it’s more of a space sim grip which I’m pretty not not interested in.

Hello guys Ive just recently gotten into DCS and other flight sims and i really want a good HOTAS ive been thinking either the thrustmaster warthog for 400 USD or the VKB MCG 'Pro' paired up with the STECs I have sorta been considering the warthog due to the metal but what do you guys recommend?

Hey all,

Just looking for a little advice. I bought a saitek x52 pro a good 10/11 years ago, its had a couple of problems in that time. The throttle started clicking and wouldn't allow to be pushed past a certain point which I took it to bits and removed a small piece of plastic to allow the full range of motion again, joystick started getting drift eventually so I set deadzones in the software to circumvent it. The thing that's finally killed it for me is it doing multiple inputs from the silver hat on the joystick which is quite annoying.

I only really play Elite Dangerous and mostly in VR so I'm after a bit of advice with that in mind.

I've had more than my money's worth out of it so have no problems whatsoever with replacing it but I'm a bit at a loss for what to pick up to replace it with. I've heard that since logitech bought out saitek that the x52 kinda blows now. I'm based in the UK and I'm wondering the kind of sticks I can look at over here? VKB sticks and throttle look decent but I'm not sure they have enough buttons on for everything that needs mapping on Elite Dangerous?

I can't find a lot of material specific to Elite frustratingly other than videos from 5-10 years ago.

I recently bought the VKB omni left throttle and the VKB Premium Gladiator right stick and will be delivered next week. I've recently started playing Elite Dangerous for the first time this weekend using keyboard and Logitech Extreme 3d joystick.

What other games do you people here suggest since there's a summer sale on Steam in a month or two.

Also is setting up the VKB sticks easy for Elite Dangerous?

For IL2 some planes require a lot of adjustments for radiators, oil, trim etc, msfs24 thankfully has interactable cockpit but still adjust some thing like trim can be difficult with my current hotas (hotas x). I'm also playing in VR so using the keyboard can be difficult.

What would you all recommend? I enjoy flying helicopters, single and twin engine planes, don't really care for large ones like 747.

I plan on buying the Gladiator NXT EVO ‘Space Combat Edition’ premium, and the VKB rudder peddles.

So, I recently treated myself to the VKB Gladiator NXT EVO Joystick and VKB Gladiator NXT EVO Omni Throttle to fly and Elite Dangerous and what a great piece of kit VKB makes. The extras and replacement parts that come with them is a breath of fresh air for a company to supply replacement parts and alternative parts with the purchase rather than a pay the company more for everything. Well done VKB.

I liked them so much I added I just added the Side extension module,.and found it can only be added to the left. Which can't work with the Omni Throttle with the way it is angled and I didn't want it on the joystick, yes I know I'm fussy and wanted it attached to the right side of the Omni throttle. No matter I thought it is designed to be attached either side except.... The JST cable isn't long enough!!!!! for everything that VKB adds in the box a double length cable surely a double length cable isn't too much to ask?!!

And yes apparently it's easy to obtain a JST PH 4 pin female to Female cable as far as Reddit and Google says. No it's not.. female to Female is really hard to find. I ended up buying the parts and creating the cable myself but wow is it fiddly with the teeny cable.

Anyone know if there is a reason they don't include a cable long enough to go either or is it just and oversight on VKB's part?

Hello - contemplating a grip to buy. I love everything about the FLNKR but am worried about the size of it (average-sized hands). I've never had the opportunity to hold it but most of the reviews say it's huge and only for larger hands. I get that it is supposed to be based on the real life stick, but at least the red button is said to be very difficult to reach.

Does anyone have this grip and have thoughts on this? Has anyone compared it to their AERO grip in size?

Thanks!

I am looking to buy a HOSAS setup (NXT EVO with omni on left side or CDT Aeromax R+LZ).

Prices on https://flightsimcontrols.com/ look crazy when compared to US prices and put VKB option on same price as Virpil despite being inferior, from my perspective.

Not much to say on prices on https://virpil-controls.eu/ are they seem consistent with prices in US, UK,... But this is a little over my budget.

I looked at used offer but Aeromax seems to be too new for that and NXT Evo pricing are not very competitive with new prices.

Is there any other location I should look at?

Any joystick Gremlin Ninja's out there who can help?

I would like to hear from anybody who uses the axis merge "Maximum" functionality.

In practice how does this work? Is it basically "highest takes precedence"?

What I am looking to do is have one peripheral which would give me fine control for landing/docking in Elite Dangerous. (VKB Stecs space throttle) but also have a space grip set up for combat.

These are functionally the same set of axis (thruster) but obviously with different tensions set... (loose for combat to keep things fast, quite stiff for the landing/docking for fine tuned movement)

or am I over thinking it? Is there a better way in Gremlin? (like a mode switch which would inhibit the axis of one and activate the axis of another?)

I found this really good offer, x56 for 150. Which one is better when price is negligible ?