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Not to keen on the choices in the poll myself hehe. Would be cool if the F16 was done proper, to include the Falcon folks as mentioned, but my choice would be a Su-27 with AFM and all the nice goodies that went into something like the DCS A-10.

Well they did manuals for FC/FC2, would be awesome though if they do it in colour, way better.

One better. Check this out http://forum.virtualthunderbirds.com/viewtopic.php?t=3096

Mithandra, keep us posted on what you find and if you get it sorted. was looking for this option as well.

Hi Callyste Thanks for that info, I was going to add a poll but could not figure it out last night, to many beers, also thought I would suggest it first rather than just sticking it up there to hear what people thought. (being a noob round here) I am glad to see the numbers you referenced on Checksix. Puts a better perspective on the whole issue. I also contacted Thrustmaster btw, I just explained to them I am dead keen to buy the Hotas, but I was cautious because it costs so much to send it back ond forth and I had seen quite a few issues on various forums and made it clear that although it seems like a huge problem, I do not understand the extent of it (% failure rate). Well they replied quickly to some of my questions and basically said it is a firmware issue in the main that, if I read correctly, that is compounded by certain mobo's in some instances. They asked for my mobo info and I sent them my full pc specs. I will now wait for their reply.

Thank you very much, if you update let us know .

Perhaps a small suggestion. Would it not be constructive to have a poll here for the Warthog owners on the site. Reading this entire thread there seems to be no real idea of the extent of the problem. SOme say small number some say large. Well I suppose this forum is a good enough sample of any flight sim community. Have a poll and lets see what percentage of owners are running trouble free, throttle wise that is.

I just don't have the time and the grey matter anymore to program the cougar for DCS A10 and no profiles going of any worth that I can find. Thats why the warthog appeals to me so much, plug and play baby, just dont pop a circuit board or something LOL.

Christo, you mentioned there were issues, but it looks rather widespread when looking through posts like this? I will still buy it, but gonna be nervous as hell. Would like some kind of clarification as to firmware or hardware related, maybe I can avoid a certain serial number range then and save some heartache later.

Shucks, and I am about to hit the checkout button with a Warthog in the cart :( Shiiping the thing to where I live is like around $100 alone, cant afford to send it back and forth across the pond everytime it breaks. Is there any official statement from Guillemot as to why they have had what seems to be quite a high instance of failures? A bit nervous now.