...not entirely sure if I can explain exactly what my deal is, but I will do my best.
I have been living with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis from early childhood and while taking meds most of my life and having some complications... to make a long story short, I stopped growing pretty early in life, and have slightly limited movement in my fingers. that is to say I'm not completely useless, I've played flight sims till I drove my wireless POS saitek into the ground. I lived playing IL2 and DCS BS. for even DCS BS, the rediculously limited amount of buttons:joystick: on my joystick was nearly OK. for the Warthog it's nowhere near what is needed. not to mention it's insanely jittery and not precise. so.... here's the $64000 question. I'd like to find a joystick (I can never say this without giggling like a schoolgirl) that can fit my small-er handsize and yet be professional enough that it can have enough hat switches/buttons on it for me to sort of enjoy my flying. flying is after all the best thing ever IMO. :pilotfly: it takes me out of my pain and makes me forget I'm sick.
also - I have no problem with a separate throttle as long as it isn't gigantic.
I also have remained friends with my ex-physics high school teacher who used to fly F-100s in Vietnam, so I'm hoping to rope him into buying the Warthog and having some fun with me (wait that came out wrong). "flying with me" is better.
so thanks to anyone having any suggestions.