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Hi everyone!Official news here.

 

First batch of the pre-order is now ready to ship out.but we are having a hard time to decide which cam should be out factory setting. we understand hard center cam are close to real thing but for desktop sim, the soft center cam seems to be more suitable. that was the reason that we had a vote from your guys, the result was in favor for hard centering cam.

 

The feed back from youtuber/streamers indicated the soft centercam seems to be better for desktop simulation, so no dead zone, no loose feel of the center, no prominet center detend. Soft cam seems to be more useful in dogfight, AAR and formation flight.

 

So we made a decision. All pre-order hotas will be shipping out with soft cam as default, and this time we will adjust cam and spring to make sure it "feels right" before it went out.And we will give the hard cam as free giveaways too. The free giveaway will end in future but ETA.

 

Due to this change, there will be a slight deley on the shipping.

 

We will try to complete the adjustment within a week.By the way, the order/pre-order after 15th,Sep should be deliver in later Nov, Second batch.and thank you for your patience and support from the very beginning.

 

We`re almost there !

 

Winwing HOTAS product page https://www.winwing.cn/en/JOYSTICK?language=en

 

Winwing HOTAS web store page https://shop.winwing.cn/shop_en

 

Winwing Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/winwing.cn/

 

Winwing Facebook community group page https://www.facebook.com/groups/HOTAS/

 

Winwing YouTube channel

 

 

 

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Some open box from streamers(Review will come later):

Redkite first impressions of Winwing HOTAS

 

 

Jabbers winwing throttle first look

 

 

Jabbers Winwing joystick first look

 

Magz TV Winwing HOTAS unboxing

 

 

Check-six Winwing HOTAS unboxing

 

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Thanks for Noobifier's beautiful pictures,We believe more introduce about detail will come later with his Review.

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Winwing, for $800 USD why are we getting both sets of cams with our order? Even if you charged extra for the cams it would save a lot of hassle for your customers. Nothing more frustrating than waiting 4 months for your product to find you have to order more cams to suit your liking.

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Chief, sounds like you might have missed where he said the hard cams will be included for free.

 

 

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What carrier is being used? DHL? FedEx?

 

You pick your carrier when you check out.

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Hey Winwing! According to Jabbers' video, you guys were planning to reduce the HOTAS price back down to $799 for a limited time. Is that still the plan? If so, when?

 

The plan I believe was to re-open the pre-order pricing for a 3 day window. My credit card is sitting waiting ...

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Hi everyone!Official news here.

 

First batch of the pre-order is now ready to ship out.but we are having a hard time to decide which cam should be out factory setting. we understand hard center cam are close to real thing but for desktop sim, the soft center cam seems to be more suitable. that was the reason that we had a vote from your guys, the result was in favor for hard centering cam.

 

The feed back from youtuber/streamers indicated the soft centercam seems to be better for desktop simulation, so no dead zone, no loose feel of the center, no prominet center detend. Soft cam seems to be more useful in dogfight, AAR and formation flight.

 

So we made a decision. All pre-order hotas will be shipping out with soft cam as default, and this time we will adjust cam and spring to make sure it "feels right" before it went out.And we will give the hard cam as free giveaways too. The free giveaway will end in future but ETA.

 

Due to this change, there will be a slight deley on the shipping.

 

We will try to complete the adjustment within a week.By the way, the order/pre-order after 15th,Sep should be deliver in later Nov, Second batch.and thank you for your patience and support from the very beginning.

 

We`re almost there !

 

Winwing HOTAS product page https://www.winwing.cn/en/JOYSTICK?language=en

 

Winwing HOTAS web store page https://shop.winwing.cn/shop_en

 

Winwing Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/winwing.cn/

 

Winwing Facebook community group page https://www.facebook.com/groups/HOTAS/

 

Winwing YouTube channel

 

 

 

************************************************************************

Some open box from streamers(Review will come later):

Redkite first impressions of Winwing HOTAS

 

 

Jabbers winwing throttle first look

 

 

Jabbers Winwing joystick first look

 

Magz TV Winwing HOTAS unboxing

 

 

Check-six Winwing HOTAS unboxing

 

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This notification was posted 1 week ago on the WinWing website! is there any way you can tell me when are you going to send me my set, I paid for it on September 2 ( BEFORE September 15 obviously), another week? 2 weeks from now? and how to get the tracking number?

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Hey Winwing! According to Jabbers' video, you guys were planning to reduce the HOTAS price back down to $799 for a limited time. Is that still the plan? If so, when?

 

Thanks for your time.

 

The plan for reopen preorder event is because they closed preorder early. And official news for that is much earlier than unboxing videos came.

They will have official news for reopen since full review uploaded. And there haven 4 streamers/YouTubers no videos updated yet. Just feel relax.the more advice give to winwing. More hidden problems can be fixed before shipping.good for every one.

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Anyone mounting these to 80/20 cockpits? I'm thinking about mounting options for the throttle, but it will be tricky using extrusions.

 

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3866116

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That's great. what do you think about this -

 

That horizontal extrusion will be attached to the top of a vertical riser. Would it be smart to add an additional horizontal extrusion off the vertical riser but lower down, to create a shelf for the throttle to set on? This would remove some stress from the bracket.

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In my design, there is a vertical pole that this horizontal rail will be on top of. It all should align nicely, so the leverage of the throttle's weight should be mostly compensated by leaning against the vertical pole, not letting it tilt forward. This part is just a small piece of a full system 40 pit design similar to an Obutto.

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Wow! so quickly, did you see our last 3D drawing in our download link?

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(Include F18 Joystick/Throttle/Grip/Panels)

FACEBOOK GROUP:https://www.facebook.com/groups/HOTAS/

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Wow! so quickly, did you see our last 3D drawing in our download link?

 

No, please link me there, I'd like to validate the design if you have 3D files!

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Ok, now fixed dimensions of the bracked against the downloadable 3D models and re-uploaded a fixed STL. Dimensions should be spot on now. Work in progress marker removed as well.

 

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3866116

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And the updated stick base mounting plate, dimensions verified against WinWing's 3D files again: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3866170

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