i got both T Flight "Stick" and the "Hotas", so i got some extra buttons, i use freetrack to look around the cockpit to use the switches and buttons, as you may have noticed there arent that many buttons on the real stick and collective in real life, i limited the use of my joysticks/throttle buttons to the same functions available in the real stick/collective, keeping the realism.
for a flight simulator forum people know little about sticks
TM has dozen different joysticks and hotas systems, cougar is just one of them.