I did it......but i feel so dirty!!

[S D]

Well i've taken the plunge and pre-ordered the TM HOTAS Warthog.

 

Damn you Eagle Dynamics........

 

:lol::lol:

[MadDogMcQ]

Hahaha, me too! God knows how I'm gonna sneak it into the house unnoticed.

[S D]

Hmmmm yeah. Well i'll worry about that next week, for now i've gotta go and do the guilty slide into bed.

[Echonomix]

Just hide it under your shirt or something. I've yet to order mine, but I have found the funds!

[vrv]

Easy. Sneak it in while she's asleep but make sure to intercept the truck bringing it, while making GAU-8 noises out loud of course, and keep it in the back of the car.

[Zenra]

Hahaha, me too! God knows how I'm gonna sneak it into the house unnoticed.

 

Please let me know how that works out for you - I've been trying to figure out a plan for doing the same. Some ideas so far:

 

- buy wife a plane ticket to visit er friend in Denver, order and have delivered while she is away

- buy wife something even more expensive and take delivery of TM WH HOTAS at the same time while she is distracted

- rent an apartment someplace else to take deliver; heck, might as well just set up my whole simming system there - she'll think I am having an affair with all the time I am spending, then be relieved and forgiving when it's reveiled I am "only" flying A-10 instead

 

Any way I look at it, DCS A-10C is going to be an expensive release for me...

[Steel Jaw]

I am most unlikely to find the funds for this. WTF does it have to so GD expensive??

 

Really, who can afford this damned thing???

[diveplane]

Well i've taken the plunge and pre-ordered the TM HOTAS Warthog.

 

Damn you Eagle Dynamics........

 

:lol::lol:

 

you dirty dog lol

[kylania]

I manhandled my budget to afford one too. I'm eating raman for two months!

[Steel Jaw]

I manhandled my budget to afford one too. I'm eating raman for two months!

 

feck me, you single guys...:D

[Zenra]

I am most unlikely to find the funds for this. WTF does it have to so GD expensive??

 

Really, who can afford this damned thing???

 

I agree, but ever since they made "WCS" back in the Falcon 3.0 days and all the way through to the Cougar I've learned that I can't hold out for long and just start figuring a way to pay for the next offering sooner than later...

[thereminqblank]

feck me, you single guys...:D

 

I know how you feel. Sigh....I just entered into a mortgage.

 

The Warthog is a mini-mortgage in itself!

[Slayer]

A hot meal and a warm bed to sleep in OR a shiny new WH...the choice is yours lol.

[Echonomix]

Just look at it this way. Don't worry about buying food since you'll be too busy flying the a-10 with the tm hotas to eat. financial crisis averted!

 

howzat?

[Outlaw24]

Is Amazon Uk the only vendor taking pre-orders?

[Ragtop]

I just about managed to find the funds, don't ask me how cause I'm still working on figuring it out, but it's been a boring month that's for sure! If it wasn't for DCS beta I'd have had nothing to do, and would probably have spent my funds! Luckily my next pay is the 26th, so it works out about right.

 

Next months pay goes on upgrading the PC!

[kylania]

My preorder isn't shipping till 11-02, so another payday between now and than, so it's all good! :)

 

Of course, now I have to get rudder pedals and MFCD panels... and a helmet and flight suit.. and a life. :P

[Ragtop]

I keep putting it out of my mind that I need rudder pedals right now, which is really going to bite me in the ass when it gets here and I've still got my X-twisty2 plugged in on the floor with a pole taped to it!

 

*Laughs, pauses, strokes chin and looks at X-52 with destructive eyes*

[Poor mans sniper]

*Laughs, pauses, strokes chin and looks at X-52 with destructive eyes*

NO!!!! :( How much for it? I need one BADLY.

[kylania]

NO!!!! :( How much for it? I need one BADLY.

 

I'll sell you mine for $408! :smilewink:

 

As for the rudder lack, I think I'm going to try the cheap option mentioned in the SimHQ feature:

 

1. Use the HOTAS Warthog with no pedals

 

This option allows the user to assign a rudder axis to the rotary on the throttle base if he or she wishes. Although using this rotary requires the left hand to be removed from the throttle, it is certainly the simplest and most inexpensive option. The throttles could also be unlocked and one of the two throttle levers could be assigned to the rudder axis.

[Spectre_USA]

A throttle for the rudder axis?

 

That sounds painful.

 

As to the price on the heavy metal Warthog, I agree with Mower, that is WAY

outta line, IMHO.

 

I'll just struggle along with my X-52 Pro, un-twistied, and pair of Saitek pedals.

 

The Warthog would rock, but I just put together a new system a few months

back and am still in the doghouse for it...

[Zenra]

I'll sell you mine for $408! :smilewink:

 

As for the rudder lack, I think I'm going to try the cheap option mentioned in the SimHQ feature:

 

I did this for DCS Black Shark, assigning the Cougar "Radar Range" knob to the yaw axis after my CH pedals started showing signs of being tired. Works OK for a heli, but I am concerned about how well this might work for a fixed wing aircraft. On the other hand, I've flown under only keyboard control plenty of times while traveling, so anything's possible...

[kylania]

Thinking back on how I fly, which is quite possibly as wrong as you can possibly fly, I rarely use rudder and when I do I end up "snapping back" anyway and missing whatever I was trying to do. Though, come to think of it I use it for Nose Wheel Steering... ack.

[Ragtop]

NO!!!! :( How much for it? I need one BADLY.

 

Haha! I'm afraid I've already got a friend with his TGP point tracking it :P

 

I couldn't do it to my 52 really, it was my first HOTAS and it's served me incredibly for a few years now, and it continues to do so.

 

 

I think I'll be using the trim in pain for a while, and waiting patiently for the Saitek Combat rudder pedals to arrive. Hopefully soon or I'll have to get the normal set to tide me over!

[David A Sell]

Where did you pre-order from? I can't seem to find any place thats taking em?