Curiosity Poll - How much did you spent for HOTAS (stick and thruttle)
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please keep voting… to make this “sound” … i need at least 100 votes
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I gave the total
One for 400€ and one for about 300€. I lost one brand new at 150€, all thrustmaster Cougar. -
99€ for my HOTAS Cougar
300€ or so for the WarthogCheers, Uwe
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For the one I’m using now, for all of the ones that led up to what I’m using now?
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With or without additional/replacement mods ?
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@Dee-Jay and @Agave_Blue
With Mod! but not all the HOTAS sets cumulative you bought in the past. Just the latest one you use right now - so to speak.
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I just entered the current price for my TM WH which is about £300 or around US$380. However, during that time, I’ve also purchased 3 TM Cougars which failed to impress me and failed to keep my boys interested in flying so I’ve sold them off to better homes.
I think a further interesting discussion would be:
“Are you happy with your current setup and not want to change anything more?” (Yes/No)
“What else do you want for your setup and how much more are you willing to spend?”The second question would be interesting because while a TM WH may “only” be £300, a force-sensing stick mod can easily be 450 Euros or £415 just for that one bit of hardware.
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I think a further interesting discussion would be:
“Are you happy with your current setup and not want to change anything more?” (Yes/No)
“What else do you want for your setup and how much more are you willing to spend?”Good points. Later maybe.
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Standard cougar which cost me £120 used, about 14 years ago. I bought a second used cougar with uber2nxt mod but am still planning to go fcc3 which will cost as much as the two cougars put together. Mental, aren’t we…
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I plead the 5th US Constitutional Amendment…
Lets say if my wife or squad mates ever knew just how much, id never hear the end of it. Suffice to say, a Force Controlled Cougar or Warthog, is like a favorite golf club. Worth every quid. Kind of like Pokemon… ya got to get them all…
Signed, the TM Bigot Maximus Prime
Ps, whats a “thruttle” Mr A.S.?
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It’s obviously the next-generation throttle!!
HOTAS - Hands on Stick and Thruttle!!
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It’s obviously the next-generation throttle!!
HOTAS - Hands on Stick and Thruttle!!
and i thought it means HOT AS :mrgreen::nosep:
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300 euro for ch throttle and stick , there are plenty of sticks and hardware but luck of serius sims except bms . i have set embargo to any dcs module so only bms for me by now
embargo word is same in english as in greek right ?:)
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@vfp:
300 euro for ch throttle and stick , there are plenty of sticks and hardware but luck of serius sims except bms . i have set embargo to any dcs module so only bms for me by now
embargo word is same in english as in greek right ?:)
Kinda but its all Greek to me anywho…
Seriously, embargo is typically used in a geopolitical economic sanction context. But what you are conveying still comes through. A better American English synonym replacement might be “set a limit” or “defer” or “abstain” or “hold off”.
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@vfp:
…. embargo word is same in english as in greek right ?:)
In context, I think ‘boycott’ would be the more precise English word. Although ‘embargo’ gets the point across.
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I honestly don’t remember. I bought my FLCS and TQS back in 1996, under our original currency before we got (screwed with) the Euro. I do remember that they were very expensive, each cost more than any other stick in the store. Later on I also added the SWF22 digital chips as well. I think I definitely paid more than a current day X56 but less than a Warthog.
Then again I doubt if you get 20+ years of service from any Saitek product?
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My current set is a second-hand TM HOTAS Cougar that cost me about $250 with a set of Elite pedals, a Falcon 4.0 binder edition with an extra spiral-bound manual from the boxed edition, and even a LOMAC binder manual…
…but the whole thing tripled in price after factoring in the FSSB R2 I got for it.
At least the Simpeds I upgraded to were just $25 or so, but they aren’t the fancy ones with toe brakes. Shouldn’t be too hard to mod those in, though, and they’re still the best rudder pedals I’ve ever used despite the lack of toebrakes. (DISCLAIMER: I’ve never tried the MFG Crosswind, Slaw Device pedals, or those really fancy F-16 replica pedals from RealSimulator and a few other manufacturers that would make the first two look like budget offerings. I just know the Simpeds are really smooth, spaced out nicely, and the defined center feeling is actually nice to have, albeit with unusually large edge deadzones… and they plug straight into the Cougar.)
Funnily enough, this isn’t my first force-modded Cougar. The first one had an FCC-1 mod instead, bought from Blaster454 back when Frugal’s was still a thing, sold to a mikewmac fellow on SimHQ when I needed the dosh.
I also had a TM Warthog and a VKB Fat Black Mamba in the past. Sold the Warthog piecemeal when I realized just how much better the Mamba stick base was, only keeping the grip that now resides on my FSSB R2 Cougar. Sold the Mamba because I realized that not having FFB cripples a conventional moving displacement stick for the things I would actually use such a stick for (WWI/WWII aircraft and helicopters).
Then there’s the CH Fighterstick + Pro Throttle + Pro Pedals setups and a Saitek X-52 Pro I got for dirt cheap once, all sold for various reasons as my tastes changed…
It’s safe to say that I’ve been through more HOTAS setups than most people in the sim community have ever touched, particularly the high-end stuff short of mil-spec. And even then, I can close the gap significantly as soon as I mod this surplus A-10A throttle to have the extra functions of the A-10C right grip, alongside adding a couple of Hall sensors and wiring everything to a USB controller board.