On 8/20/2020 at 11:35 PM, pmanhart said:

https://vkbcontrollers.com/?product_cat=vkb-joysticks-and-rudders

I have a VKB with the MCG (modern combat grip) and couldn't be happier.

I saw the Gladiator NXT Premium, and I fell in love with it 🥰. However, coming from the X-52 I currently have, it's hard for me to go back to an integrated throttle, despite getting fed up with the friction I get in my current stick.

Edited September 14, 20205 yr by Luis Hernandez

It depends for me. Unfortunately, my hardware is pretty beaten so it's difficult to say. For more modern/fly by wire aircraft I prefer the stick. It just feels right when flying, I think it's probably because I fly my Airbus with the stick so much. Anything not fly by wire, I'd take a yoke. Trimming with a joystick feels weird in my opinion, and I really enjoy "working" the yoke, I feel like it gives me more control. However, the stick's convenience is brilliant. I know this is a flightsim, but a monster yoke on my desk means a lot of back straining to get to the keyboard 😄. Also, my stick is a better quality imho. But I'm kinda split right now.

12 hours ago, Luis Hernandez said:

I saw the Gladiator NXT Premium, and I fell in love with it 🥰. However, coming from the X-52 I currently have, it's hard for me to go back to an integrated throttle, despite getting fed up with the friction I get in my current stick.

I use a Logitech (formerly Saitek) USB Throttle with my Gladiator MCG. I hope to replace it with a Virpil or Warthog throttle eventually. I don’t actually have the base throttle mapped to anything at the moment, but map it to spoilers in combat sims as it’s something I don’t frequently use.

It really is hard to beat the precision and smoothness of the gimbal systems used in VKB and Virpil joysticks.

Edited September 15, 20205 yr by pmanhart

I have never used a yoke. My PC flight simulation experience over nearly three decades has been almost exclusively with the CH Flightstick and CH Flightstick Pro joysticks.

I prefer yoke over stick too since that is what we have been using from the start.

I prefer to fly with either as long as I can reach the beer!

1 hour ago, cyclone1 said:

I prefer to fly with either as long as I can reach the beer!

Ah yes - I'd forgotten that option! 🤣

For me it would probably depend on the plane however I don't have a yoke as yet so I don't get a choice. When I was flying IRL it was Cessnas so I'll probably get a yoke eventually for that extra bit of "realism" but my fun flying was in a Decathlon so the joystick works there. I've done aeros in a C150 Aerobat and the Deke of course so I have a definite preference for the joystick for that sort of thing.

I've also flown a Tiger Moth and I can't really imagine a yoke in one of those.  😄

 

 

I fly with autopilot! 😁

Even though I obtained my PPL in a Cessna with a yoke, I do prefer the joystick in the sim. I tend to feel more in tune with how the aircraft is responding with subtle movements of the stick on its axis. 

I use whatever the plane I'm flying calls for. I have a stick(Warthog) yoke (CH until the Fulcrum arrives) and three thottles. quadrant (CH) TPM (Saitek) and the Warthog throttle.

Mix 'n' match as appropriate.

For pc sims I'd say stick, but a game type stick doesn't move or feel at all like a real airplane stick. I miss the longer arm of a real stick, and how it moves. That motion really gives a more precise control feel than a game stick. Yokes are great for really precise instrument flying though, much better than a stick for me. I'd like to try the Warthog stick sometime, that one looks interesting.