Winger

its not meant as a desktop stick. It targets enthusiast pro flightsimmers. Best advice would be to buy the deskmount (wich is great bang for the buck btw.) and cenermount it. If you get some extensions you boost your immersion and controlprecision. Believe me. a centermounted, extended stick is the biggest precision increase i ever experienced. But in case you dont care: You can always saw a hole in your destop and mount it in there:P Actually a thing to consider por people that want to use this durable awesome piece of gimbal in a 2 stick setup.

Thansk for the update Cyph3r! Looking forward to playing with my brandnew all VPC simpit-setup when i get home from vacation:) S!

Awesomeness! Thanks for the headsup!

Hello Cyp3r, I am glad that things got cleared up. I for one accept your apologies and am eager to get your products into my hands. Thanks for the update!!! Cheers Winger

OK guys. I just called them myself in person. And i got the same information that Tane got. Cypher was in belarus for a company meeting regarding the delay of orders. Hes was offline. That was the reason why he didnt get to answer our concerns. He will be back and should be getting to answer our concerns within the next hours. So all fine. No need to worry. They guy on the phone apologized a lot and I bet after Cypher tells them what was going on in the forums this wont happen so fast again:) Cheers!

YESSS!!!! Thanks Tane! Much apprechiated!

Hey Tane! THANKS A LOT for your effort and for making this user to inform us. I am a little less worried now. WIll be not worried at all when i get some info from Virpil themselves or Chypher for that matter. Thou you should consider trying DCS and stopping by more often. Is a nicesim and forum thou. If you like WWII you also should try http://www.il2sturmovik.com. Cheers David

is it thinkable that they just having vacation or something? I am also getting a little concerned. LH Grip, Base, exensions anddeskmount. All on order and payed for in full....

Some update would be nice. Its time.

Any news on new shippingdates?:)

+1: Much apprechiated. And good decision towards quality.

Even if it misses some fancy clutch feature the VPC base makes a MUCH much sturdier impression to me. The VKB seems to be tiny. Especially with a long extension I cannot help but fear that it will break if youre rough with it. Might be wrong thou. What I like the most about the VPC base is that it utilizes pressuresprings instead of tension springs. And all my previous experience with all kinds of joysticks tells me that tensionsprings ALWAYS break after a while of excessive use. Worst example was the Cougar Uber gimbal. Awesome and precise but beware if you had to change a spring. Such a PITA... Thats why i went with VPC all the way. Up until today I only received the Grip and am waiting for a deskmount, extensionset, lefthandgrip and basegimbal to arrive. The grip makes an awesome impression. High quality buttons and small activationtravel. Simple plug and play with Warthog Base. If I am asked id recommend VPC. But I have to admit all I say about VKB is just a subjective impression without ever having tested it.

My Grip arrived a while ago. Very well made and awesome quality. Hope my Base and LH grip ship soon so i can actually start using it:/

Suggestion to VPC regarding this post: Maybe consider offering a conversionkit with all buttons in black like in the BE grip?

I will. Together with the LH T50 Grip for my left hand. I will use that for Star Citizen and other Space sims. I also got a Virpil Base on order and a T50 RH grip. This will be my main centermountet stick. I reuse the WH base since I dont consider it a very bad base and certainly more than adequate for the left hand.

Update if theres anyone interested: better ergonomics, new switchbox.

Update I updated the Switchbox so it looks close to the one in the real thing. Of course i modified and added some more functionality so i can properly add more functions also for other simulators. Right now planned functions: 3x 8 Way Coolie 3x Push Button 1x I-O-II Switch 1x linear Potentiometer 1x Hall sensor for Collective lever

I plan on using a HALL as well. Ill use one that detects rotation and take the movement at the axle. Btw. I looked at the Collective another time and i think its no problem to re-model the thing myself. After all it pretty much just a box:) So no need to make any more effort thou. Thanks anyways!

Yes. If i had a donkey that shaites money:) But i dont so id rather build my own for around 2-300 instead of 600 to 1000

Its only a visualisation and just a private custom project. Not for sale.

I rethought the construction and here is how it turned out for now. The Switchbox in the front is pure placeholder. Like mentioned i would love to have it look like the ones of the gazelle. This time the thing is modeled with correct measurements. Its overall length is around 40 cm and when the lever is pulled up its around 25 cm high. Wanted it to be compact so i can mount it to my office chair. Also the one in the gazelle is pretty compact as well. And BTW: Great work on the Gazelle. Having fun bigtime flying it. I am looking forward to the alternate weaponloadouts and multicrew in particular. I think this si where the gazelle will start to shine combat performance wise.

Thanks! Totally understand and respect its intellectual property. And I am not asking to make this for commecial use but my custom build homemade collective grip. Here are some pics on how i thought to construct it. The Grip and Button Box would then be replaced with the parts printed from the 3D-Data of the Gazelle Grip. Shapeways does a pretty good job for decent money when it comes to rapid prototype stuff like that. This visualization has no accurate measurements yet. Its just a visualisation of how i think it would work. The bearing will be replaced with 2 of those, screwed to the outer housing and an axle inbetween of them

Does anyone know if its somehow possible to fly sideways while in autohover? I know i can deactivate the auto collective and correct height. Also i know i can slave the autopilot to the camera and do heading corrections. But as long as there is no multicrew capability and i have to manage pilot and weapons myself it would be awesome to make slight corrections with the trim. For me this doesnt seem to work. Is that supposed to be like that, am i doing something wrong or is it just not possible? Thanks

Is there a way to extract parts of the 3D model from the gazelle? I think about creating my own collective lever. I could use the 3D models from the DCS Gazelle and rescale/modify them for custom electronics. Seprate parts i Would have printed from a rapid prototyping supplier. Thanks!

I cannot seem to find the function to use the 4 key on the nadir via keyboard. There seems to be a bug. 4 Button funciton in options triggers the 5 key on the NADIR. Also i cant find the function to alter NADIR parameter rotary vie keyboardentry. Only klickable in cockpit. Anyone able to help?