Great game, but I have a few questions...

[humptydumpty]

Throttle on the hotas x doesn't work now and a couple of the buttons register as throttle as well as their own inputs, and I can't fix it.

 

Yes I could use the keyboard, and possibly an xbox 360 gamepad, but it's just not the same.

 

Have to wait till xmas now to get a new hotas. Probably get a Saitek X45/X52 this time though.

 

 

If you want something cheaper for time being get the Logitech Attack 3 , should not cost you more than 20$ , but yes it has small throttle and it is not too comfortable to use.

[Raven_Morpheus]

If you want something cheaper for time being get the Logitech Attack 3 , should not cost you more than 20$ , but yes it has small throttle and it is not too comfortable to use.

 

 

Thanks. I've had a look and it looks reasonable. Thrustmaster do a joystick with mini-throttle that is shaped just like the T-Flight Hotas X's joystick, and it's a bit cheaper than the Logitech Attack 3 here in the UK.

 

 

Really wish I hadn't put the screw through the main cable in the T-flight Hotas X throttle base though, I had the detent all nicely smoothed off so that the throttle slides nice and smoothly, and all I had to do was put the potentiometer back in it's slot properly and screw the bottom of the throttle base back on!!

 

 

It's still usable though, the joystick part works fine. And I forgot it has a twist axis on the joystick that I can use as a rudder axis and use the rocker on the throttle handle as the throttle instead. All buttons appear to function OK on the throttle base so long as I have the wire in a certain position (some times button 9 is always on once pressed).

 

I've stripped back the rubber/plastic sleeving around the cable in the throttle base (and pulled the cable right through so it's outside of the throttle base for easy manipulation) and I can see I've clipped a couple of the wires but not broken them completely, hence the need for the cable to be in a specific position to avoid button 9 being always on, and I've completely broken a yellow wire, which obviously is attached to the potentiometer on the throttle handle and controls the Z axis because that's the axis that is non-functional.

 

IF I can bridge that wire I might be able to fix the Z axis so I can use the throttle lever. But I don't really like my chances of doing so because I'm useless at doing such things. I might be able to scavenge some wire from an old USB cable but I don't have a soldering iron.

 

 

Still, for the moment I can just about play this game (and others) using the twist axis on the stick and the rocker for throttle, although it's not quite as accurate.

 

At least I can fly until I have saved up for a replacement T Flight Hotas X or even better a Saitek X45/X52 (which I've been planning on upgrading to anyway)...

Edited September 29, 2013 by Raven_Morpheus