My Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X arrived today.
It's feels amazing, but it's going to take me while to get used to the completely separate throttle controller and separate/new button layout (as oppose to having all functions on the one unit and in a familiar place...)
The throttle controller is amazing for small or fine throttle adjustments, compared to my Logitech Wingman Extreme 3D Pro.
Can't wait til I can get the just to put some serious time into getting use to it!
I'd got the Logitech stick only a couple of weeks ago, as the wireless variant I had was a few years old and starting to go, but decided to go to the HOTAS setup instead.
From a pitch/yaw/roll perspective, it worked perfected, and the buttons are all well placed, the only bugbear I had was that I had to lower the throttle axis sensitivity to minimum in order to make the throttle control a bit more accurate, but it lacked for accuracy of small/fine throttle adjustments.
So if anyone wants to get hold of a joystick that works pretty well with Elite: Dangerous and doesn't want to pay too much, I'll happily put the Logitech back into it's original box and send it for half it's retail price and postage (so about $25 + postage).
Only thing I've done to it is to put my own 50%/halfway marker by the throttle with a sharpie pen.
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