What is your primary DCS flight controller?

• MS Sidewinder Force Feedback 2
  
• a converted "Thrustmaster Cougar" with its own USB controller card and self-built Collective
  
• Saitek Pro Flight rudder pedals "Cessna"
  

15 year old Saitek Cyborg Evo - due for upgrade. Personally I prefer a stick mounted throttle. I've tried a Thrustmaster T flight but found my arm was aching holding the throttle. I need to look at my ergonomics and setup but I'm limited for space.

It's funny but I've spent so much on modules but I've really overlooked one of the most important bits of interacting with them.

Thank you Wags for tackling this barrier to entry into this awesome flight sim title.

I have a VKB base with the warthog stick and throttle (Most likely I'm in the minority here).

Would it also be possible to correct the bug that requires me to rename every controller profile in the inputs file folder to match the new controller file name when I re-load windows? I know this only happens once or twice a year but having to spend 2-3 hours renaming the files so that I can use the control profiles that I created (which as I'm sure you know takes hours) would be awesome.

One last thing to consider: I'm not sure the weight for priority should be based just on percentages, as again this is a barrier to entry, and new flight simmers, I would image are the most likely to be deterred by having to create custom profiles. So focusing on the entry level controllers especially for lock on and flaming cliff would seem to make the most sense for a good return on investment.

Thanks again for your consideration.

Regards,

Brad

Microsoft Sidewinder (modified)

Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold (Modified as a Throttle)

I use a combo: X-52 as stick and throttle and simple Genius Speed Wheel 3's pedals as rudder pedals (after disassembly, service with oil/graphite mixture and reassembly). It allows for cheap aircraft pedals substitute, although these are car-type ones. X-52's own rudder control was dead after a month or so, and I don't miss it.

I hope one day there will be configurable mouse joystick input included with DCS, along with speed/acceleration setups for keyboard button inputs for appropriate functions like throttle, which is far too fast to be precisely controlled by keyboard in some modules (namely, Ka-50 and P-51).

Free to play's key feature is availability, and ATM controls are somewhat lacking (although keyboard controls for pitch and roll are probably the best implemented in genre, especially if used with control positions indication).

This poll is a surprise - very expensive joystick has the upper hand. Would think that my own T16000m combo with throttle will have upper hand.

Switching between a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro and Microsoft Sidewinder FFB2.

For modules require a lot of axes, I add a Logitech gamepad.

This poll is a surprise - very expensive joystick has the upper hand. Would think that my own T16000m combo with throttle will have upper hand.

This poll has a lot of bias in it because enthusiastic simpilots are more likely to respond to the poll (since they are on the forums a lot more) and they also tend to have more expensive toys to go with the hobby. This is assuming that the more fanatic you are on your simpilot hobby, the more money you spend on it and the more you are on the forums and more willing to enter the poll.

So it then follows that the more expensive sticks like the Warthog will be overrepresented in this sample.

Mine is not listed, and a part of my whole setup is primary, which is:

The legendary Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 (in actice service for 15 years now, still have 2 in spare)

The great Thrustmaster Warthog throttle

The amazing MFG Crosswind rudder pedals

Secondary are:

Two Saitek Throttle Quadrants

Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro (stick removed, just for the slider)

Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 (mainly 'cos of the slider)

Sony Dualshock 3 SIXAXIS (for analogue sticks as hats and some buttons)

MS Sidewinder FFB 2

Logitech 3d pro

This poll has a lot of bias in it because enthusiastic simpilots are more likely to respond to the poll (since they are on the forums a lot more) and they also tend to have more expensive toys to go with the hobby. This is assuming that the more fanatic you are on your simpilot hobby, the more money you spend on it and the more you are on the forums and more willing to enter the poll.

 

So it then follows that the more expensive sticks like the Warthog will be overrepresented in this sample.

Agreed. It looks like the Warthog might still be under 50% though, once the controls not on the list are allocated their share of the percentage. Reading through the posts it looks like a good showing for the MSFF2; shame it was not on the original list, along with other force feedback sticks.

I hope Wags posts the full results once those not on the list have been added and the percentages distributed.

Happy landings,

56RAF_Talisman

Thrustmaster warthog but really waiting to use my Captogloves when they are integrated

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Maxflightstick Huey setup

Logitech G-940...Saitek X-56, TM16000, (TM warthog..I never use it...I dont like it.)

( Just purchased the Cobra hotas..under 200.00 usd and has hall sensors on all axis. Very nice.)

Laz

I frequently switch my Warthog stick out for an MSFFB2 for helicopter and prop plane flight.

Logitech G940 Stick (with Thrustmaster Warthog Throttle)

Also, sometimes:

Microsoft FFB2 (with Thrustmaster Warthog Throttle)

Wow 54% of you guys have a $400 Warthog HOTAS! I am soooo in the wrong game. :(

X45 (+ would be thrustmaster pedal, if it wouldn't die after a year)

Wow 54% of you guys have a $400 Warthog HOTAS! I am soooo in the wrong game. :(

NOPE, I can tell you for sure that Warthog is only a hype. Yeah, it good but not that better than any other, if any. I used it enough, no thx. Rather an X56.

Hello there, perfect poll.

Can someone who knows more rudder pedals make such poll for the rudder pedals? I currently have TFRP as lot of people here but I am not satisfied with them at all.

Thank You!

TM Warthog

MS Sidewinder Force Feedback 2

X-52+MSFF2

Logitech G940

Wow 54% of you guys have a $400 Warthog HOTAS! I am soooo in the wrong game. :(

Well, by just looking at all the signatures, almost everyone has a $850 graphics card with 11GB of VRAM that I can't keep up with (just a crappy 970 ). But I could get my WH off eBay in a good condition for just half the price.

By the way I'm glad to see so many FFB2 and G940 (and a rare Wingman Force) drivers here. Force Feedback still needs to be a thing!

I'd love to get a FFB base for the WH or somthing from VKB or Virpil. Or just a better one from logi. Also, we need FFB pedals eventually, especially for those choppers. And a throttle which utilizes FFB technology to have dynamic detents just where they have to be, dependant on each module... it's just a shame that this great technology is dormant almost for two decades now. It makes flying so much better as there's hardly any other decent possibility to give feedback that you'd normally would have in a real plane.