Dyram

The DCS community continues to be one of the most generous I've seen. I'd love a chance at the bird. Congratulations to whomever wins!

This community continues to be incredible. Sign me up! Now back to prepping my group for the next glorious chapter in DCS history.

Excellent I purchased the 120mm extension on January 16th. Within minutes of the purchase being confirmed, I was sent a personalized email from Adam, and he let me know that it would be in the post the next day. Sure enough, it was. Very quick turnaround, and very personalized service. Thanks to a fun random hold up on USPS's end of things, Adam and I had a lengthy back and forth about the progress on the shipping. He guaranteed me my money back in full if the package truly went missing, which eased my worries, and we both watched the trackers carefully. As updates finally came to the tracker, I received an email every morning from Adam reassuring me that things seemed to be moving along. Eventually USPS got off of their ass and actually did ship me the extension, which I finally received today, February 2nd. The personalized customer service is truly above and beyond, and I know that the blame for the hold up falls squarely on USPS. If it weren't for that, I would have had my extension right away. But now I do have it, and I was able to give the Warthog and the Huey a whirl to test it out. Simply fantastic. It's a beautiful milled single piece of steel that just plugs right in perfectly. Not only is the stick able to be rotated to more comfortably fit your grip as you fly, but the extra length away from the fulcrum at the base means that it has eliminated wrist movement altogether. While I loved the Warthog even without the extension, the biggest limiter on my play was that I felt like I was destroying my wrist trying to pull back on the stick. Now, however, the motion is fluidly across the entire arm and very comfortable. The extra length means that I can perform much finer motions accurately since more physical deflection is required to match the amount of movement without the extension. Additionally, the extra weight and the length moves the center of gravity on the stick upwards away from the fulcrum, meaning that the factory default somewhat stiff centering spring is now much softer, to the point of accurate, deft control using only fingertips. Overall, the whole stick motion feels smoother and more comfortable. And now after I write all of this I realize that this is all written in the first post... Consider it a confirmation of those claims. I would very much highly recommend this extension to anyone with a Warthog. It is a revelatory experience and will change the way that you play for the better. Thank you again, Adam, for your fantastic customer experience. It really felt like you had my back and were right there with me through the whole experience. Thank you for your fantastic product, and thank you for providing this service to the community.

I want a Hawk. Thank you everyone who keeps running these sorts of community contests. It's great to see the spirit of giving so strong.

Map Size Comparison I'm sure others like this exist now (or will soon), but I was curious myself and decided to quickly whip this together using the new image and Google Earth. It's not 100% perfect (some of the mountain peaks in the north are off a little - could be the map itself and not the scaling), but using the lakes and the rough positions of Creech AFB, this is pretty close. I hope this is enlightening for other inquisitive minds. Edit: All of these years lurking and finally a first post. Huh.