Bob_Bushman

For me the answer is "all of them". And having to switch grips and re-calibrate everytime I switch is just not going to happen. So I don't care aircraft X doesn't have this there or Y has what where. Is an analog slew thumb stick a good idea? Yes very. Would that be a good place for it? I think yea.

Why limit to a 5-way hat on the t50 thumb rest. It would be the perfect spot, with some adjustment for a fully analog thumb stick for slew or whatever you want to use it as.

They are indeed sweet, the warthog grip is in my guess the better part of the warthog set. But I can mostly just guess, the biggest difference between the two grips is that the T-50 has the analog brake lever. It's also slightly larger, which is not a problem for me, but I use 10-10.5 size in gloves.. I can also say they really don't disappoint with the throttle as well. Especially lately, where I have been trying my hand at the p-51. The on grip scroll wheel is perfect for converging the guns on the fly. And a dial is perfect for the spread. The same scroll wheel is also the perfect axis for the nozzles on the Harrier, I no longer feel like I need a third arm to fly it :) Even as a helicopter collective it's even more precise than the warthog throttle, even though it has a shorter throw.

I don't care about replicating a grip. Make something with enough axes, buttons and with a focus on ergonomics and input flexibility. For the latter I mean buttons for the rest of the fingers, not just thumb and index. This is the point where I find the Delta constellation fails at the most. And if you do make Twist, give us a mechanical option to lock the twist. With the Delta, all the buttons are under and competing for your thumb. This actually makes the stick less suitable for games like Elite where multiple presses are more common than in sims like DCS, even though thats the kind of games it's designed for !? I have so far switched back to the t50 grip simply because it's layout is so much better, and I'm missing the main feature, the thumb stick, more in DCS as a slew than in Elite dangerous and for thrusters. But the coup de grace on it, no pinky button. Then again, I have already pre-ordered a VKB MCG PRO to complete my HOSAS so I'm pretty much set I guess.

There are also the thrustmaster TPR. But pricy. http://mobile.thrustmaster.com/node/8207#

Assembly was rather easy, 10 minute job at most. And like mentioned above I grabbed the tape measure and checked mine with the width adjustment the very widest section of the pedals are as mentioned above 47-48cm.

When the f-18 presents with <20 fps. But every other module 45-90 easy. It's not the hardware.

Like any new control instruments it takes time and a bit of effort. Rudder pedals work differently than anything else you are used to. unless of course you are an actual pilot then you know what's what ;) Give yourself 10-12 hours of actual use before making any judgement, over at least three separate sessions. That's about how much time I needed for starting out with my CH pedals. But once it 'gelled' with my mind, made a few adjustments to position the fluidity of control I gained was a point of no return. And the crosswinds are better in every regard than the CH. After ordering you should get a notification from Milan for an expected delivery date, he operates in batches, about a week or so before he has your order ready you get contacted again where you affirm your order, followed by payment details.

You could just unhook the spring itself completely if you like.

I think I ordered mine in April Was slotted for June batch or something, I might be wrong about this. Anyhoo. pedals arrived as expected and they where indeed a huge upgrade from my CH. I recommend getting the optional width adjustment not right away. They are actually so wide these pedals I was on the edge of comfort without the narrower fit. If you build a pit for instance you need these just so they fit. And with such great gear you really should ;)

quality sensor is a quality sensor. I wouldn't hang myself up too much on them being contactless or potentiometer based. A good pot is still good. A contactless hall sensor with a loose magnet is rubbish as well. At least the main axes on the t50 are contactless but it has six axes in total but with my unit I can't tell the difference unless I start digging into resolution ranges etc but that is also mostly from the bit depth on the chips rather than the sensors again.

Yup. I own one and it is a nice grip Ambidextrous as well so would work as a lefty or rather well as a center stick. I personally don't need the twist, got crosswinds. and I personally prefer the t50 mongoose grip and button layout. But it is a nice grip with a very nice analog thumb stick as well. Which honestly I found more useful in DCS as a slew than in Elite dangerous as thruster control.

Yeah, I signed up for a few things but never got an email about anything I know they have restocked the store twice since.

I was periodically looking at the virpil website for over a year and a half before buying, as well as probably viewing every YouTube video and user opinion I could scrounge. And then it was a "it's money, you can't take it with you so why Not?" and hit buy at 2:35 AM after three double shots of whisky.

I pledged at a whim, I'm not really even expecting a replacement for my rift even, so far from what I gather it seems to be better than I expected. And pledging during the kickstarter it was only about $450. I already have lighthouses and wands sitting in a box with the vive so figured I might as well get some use out of those :P And even though I certainly didn't think it was going to be done by January 2018 I figured they would have something by spring\summer. Now, like you say it's cutting it awfully close to other more established contenders to release their second gen sets. But if they had released a 200 degree set 6-7 months ago they would have been able to cash in on the wave of disappointment that was the vive pro. Yeah Pimax is still a big "wait and see" in my opinion.

Yeah DCS grabs all possible devices and bind them to pitch, roll and yaw as soon as it finds them. So if you plugin a new throttle or something it's immediately bound to pitch, roll and yaw etc etc.

I would go check out a local scrapper. Find a front passenger seat out of VW caravelle or something. That mount looks way to high for a comfortable position imo. Do not go for a bucket or racing seat trucker or worker cars are much more comfortable and we won't have lateral g forces to contend with.

I think the warbrd has an included base plate but I have the older t50.

Nope, just got some longer m3 screws and drilled 3mm holes :P Goes right through the board, the plate and into the case. Not recommended I'm sure but, been working fine, and besides I got my stick setup light so there isn't any actual force involved. Think I spent about a total of $30 on it, and 90% of the wood is re purposed from my old setup.

Not a lot of FPS per say. But I got a huge reduction in load times when I moved to my SSD, and load stutter during play is heavily reduced.

I don't see a problem with a tiny space. All the cockpits are tiny anyways :) It's a feature, not a problem!

And DCS as with most VR titles does not use more than one GPU anyways so rather a moot thing to worry. I noticed myself a rather staggering boost in performance upgrading from an i7 4790k to my i7 8700k. Not in DCS but in pretty much all other VR titles. Yes, DCS isn't multithreaded, but VR is, so the tracking and software side of your VR plattform gets a benefit over single core performance with a newer multithreaded CPU. And DCS is an oddity in this regard, pretty much every other game takes adavantage of more than eight threads. And as soon as DCS goes to vulkan so will it. I don't know when that will be, three months or three years from now, there is no question single core performance is a secondary these days. I honestly find it quite funny the amount of threads I am seeing other places about "I am running a seven year old i7, why is VR bad? And why won't it support windows 7?" threads.

They are just flush against a wall. They have a pair of prongs that create a few inches distance, no issue with cables etc. Since I'm using an office chair though, for now, I tied two hooks to my armrests with some rope. That I attach to the cat's eye hooks on the mounts. Here's a quick pic of my setup back when I was running the delta grip, but after I got the throttle.

In a nutshell yes. But strictly speaking all controllers these days are digital. Buttons are on-off states. An analog axis, has a range of states, for an 8 bit joystick for instance it is a range from 0-255. Say you have a throttle input just a standard 8bit one would be able to increment and control it at less than 0.5 percent adjustment. Now it's becoming more and more affordable to use 12bit chips and these range from 0-4096 . A button for rudder would then be either 0 or 100%. And often for rudders you don't need full. But 10-20% and it could change often so having an analog input for this is great. Personally I wouldn't sacrifice my rudder pedals for anything, my wrist is busy enough with pitch and roll. Most games would give you some help though when using buttons. As in rudder it could increase the output by X percent as you held the button. And reaching 100% would mean holding the button for some time.

I oddly enough find the delta grip better for jets than I do for elite dangerous. Elite dangerous combat tends to make you push a lot of buttons at the same time and the delta stick moves pretty much all buttons under your thumb. And I found the thumb stick more useful for slew than thruster control. So yeah. I prefer the delta constellation for DCS, and mongoose for elite dangerous. Honestly not by much so I in general just prefer the mongoose, the pinky button, foldable trigger and 2-way on the side is great for both and I was missing those. Then again I also don't need twist. Both seem like very good quality grips. I could be very happy with just the delta, but since I own both I choose the mongoose for personal preferences. I find myself curious about the MCG pro...