[nearmiss]

My CH Fighterstick has a heft and feel of a quality product. It is like flying a Boeing 727 after flying prop planes. There is just a smoothness about it that reminds you of flying quality aircraft.

Yeah, I know it has that bump kinda thing on the diagonal crossover, but you don't notice when you're using it.

I now have a hotas that is pretty awesome. Finally, got enough $ together to own.. Fighterstick, Prothrottle,propedals and an MFP.

My old stick, MSFT FF2, has been acclaimed over an over as the best stick. It cannot be compared to the Fighterstick. FS has no twist rudder handle or ForceFeedback. I don't miss the Forcefeedback a bit, because the stick has an excellent feel once you get it configured well.

I think it might be worth noting. The single sticks and hyped hotas things available now are probably a reasonable approach to virtual flying. IF you fly the hud, or basically aren't really into virtual flying that much... just shooting at stuff.

I read and re-read all the information and reviews on hotas arrangements over the years, and piece by piece I finally got it all. I don't even regret my decisions and that's good because my six month old Razer keyboard from MSFT now has about 10 unreadable letters on the keyboard. The stupid keys are white and painted with black to leave out the letters on the white keys for the lights to shine through. It is less than a year old.

Thank you very much, but with the quality of Chproducts I don't even regret my purchases. Then of course I don't have all the tricked out lights and little screeny things to rejuventate me either.