Best Joystick for Flight Mechanics

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Originally Posted by RoninOni

They're referred to as HOTAS joysticks... and the aforementioned Thrustmaster $50 one only has a 4-6" cable connecting the 2 halves (maybe even less), so no, you couldn't do that setup.

One of the reviews on Amazon.com tells me it has an 18" cable connecting the throttle and stick. So maybe that's been amended in the latest iteration of the design. It sounds perfect for what I want to do, and the price is certainly right. I just hope PS2 supports it, is all. I can't fly worth a damn with the keyboard/mouse combo in PS1 or BF2142, either one, and those are the only FPS games I have any exposure to.

(Except for BF3, which I uninstalled after an hour and a half. What an absolute un-user-friendly badly laid-out profanity-spamming turd of a game. I'm still smarting from wasting money on it. Beta can't come soon enough).

[Joomba]

Thanks all, I just bought the Thrustmaster Hotas X. I couldn't help but jump on the opportunity as it is $15 off right now, making it price competitive with the other Thrustmaster and the Logitech one.

One concern I have is that in one of the unpacking videos on Youtube where someone was playing with it I saw that the throttle springs back to rest, which would prevent me from auto-flying somewhere .