F18C Stick flickering and takes staggered input from the HOTAS stick, when hand controllers are enabled in VR

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This happened just after the upgrade to 2.8. When hand controllers are enabled in VR, the stick is flickering, and takes very intermediate and staggered input from my HOTAS stick. It is not possible to fly the plane using the HOTAS. When I disable hand controllers, the flickering stops and I can use my HOTAS stick just fine. This means that I have to change the way I am operating the cockpit from using the hand controllers, to using the mouse. This is a less realistic way of flying in VR, and also really annoying. 

My HOTAS is Thrustmaster Warthog stick base with a F18C Thrustmaster Stick. My VR is the VIVE PRO set