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[Bearskin]

My Warthog stick base has finally packed in after 10 years, no buttons are registering but in the windows test, button 1 lights up all the time then if I touch the wires all the buttons light up. I never liked the stiction anyway so instead of getting another Warthog base I have decided to get a virpil Warbrd and use my Warthog stick. My question is, does anyone know from past experience how long Virpil products are usually on back order, if it is going to be months then I might have to go for winwing.

Edited December 5, 2023 by Bearskin

[speed-of-heat]

How long is a piece of string... Sorry

[Guest]

14 hours ago, Bearskin said:

My Warthog stick base has finally packed in after 10 years, no buttons are registering but in the windows test, button 1 lights up all the time then if I touch the wires all the buttons light up. I never liked the stiction anyway so instead of getting another Warthog base I have decided to get a virpil Warbrd and use my Warthog stick. My question is, does anyone know from past experience how long Virpil products are usually on back order, if it is going to be months then I might have to go for winwing.

It used to be months at some point before the gear your purchased was shipped  but now it's a couple of weeks depending on what's in your order. You need to contact their support and they will let you know how much it will approximately take to ship the package.

[Bearskin]

Thanks for the replies, I have had a look around different forums and it seems like if its on back order, you order what you want, then they build it, when they have the parts. Just bad timing on my part that the warthog decides to pack in just before the Christmas rush and just after the black Friday sales.  Oh well, driving sims and FPS for a while. 

I will give support a try and see what they say

Thanks again.

Edited December 6, 2023 by Bearskin

[Bearskin]

Ordered a WarBrd last Friday and today I checked and they have just come back in stock, fingers crossed for the 48 hour process, might have it by Monday.  

Edited December 14, 2023 by Bearskin

[Vakari]

They have a community thread where people regularly update their status or whine about their impatience

https://forum.virpil.com/index.php?/topic/1946-new-ordering-process-live-community-discussion/

[Bearskin]

The WarBRD-D base arrived last Thursday, so just under 2 weeks from ordering, what a difference from the stiction of the TM base. I haven't changed the cams or springs from the Aviasim soft centre cams and standard springs (pre fitted). I had a mess around with the clutch but put it back to lightest. I am well impressed, I never liked flying the Huey because the stiction in the hog base made it very difficult to land, I just could not get the miniscule movement happening, was always fighting the stick, and crash landed maybe 6 out of 10 times, also forget about landing on a ship or near an injured soldier, but now with the WarBRD-D base I am landing the Huey on a dime. 

The spitfire too is amazing with this base, it used to take me ages to strafe a convoy, because of the stiction I could never line up the Plane in time, no matter how far away I started my run, I was always having to fight the stiction. I tried it yesterday with the new base and I took out half the convoy on my first pass, straight down the line. 

I am thinking the cosmo soft centre might suit me even better but that is for an other day. 

RIP Don, very sad news.