Hi !
I'm pleased to discover this forum , and this handful of good news :D

I'm a member of the Tarmac Aces team .
We know that we made an expensive control stick.
But it can't be compared to anyone .

It's a central position control strick of 50 cm at the head of the handle.
It's sensors are 60 times more precise than the better potentiometer (without amplification ! )
It's mechanic is ball-bearing mounted , and assembled with the tenth of millimetre .
It's travel is historical .
It's force management system (mechanical) is a revolution : no return to centre , and it gives the feeling to operate all the linkage to the control surfaces . Light on slow operations, it hardens when you make fast operations.
And it's handle is the exact replica of a real handle . (the KG13 equipped most of the WWII german fighters ) More replicas of historic handles will be soon carried out .

We're working with french simmers on a new type of force feedback which will take into account the effect of the trim, so I expect SOW will support FFB ....

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C6_Trollbug, I wish you lots of success with your product, I was waiting for such a stick with ffb! I hope the price will drop at some point, so I can enjoy it too.

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I forgot one thing :

It's completely plug-and-play with any OS :Windows 2000, Me, XP, Vista, MacOSX : no driver is needed.

We will soon release a video to show the travel of the stick : it's really a different kind of controlling . :D

good fly !

Why not start a new thread for it so this one remain's Oleg related

p.s. nice stick

Any plans to include the Dewoitine D.520???

http://www.warland.info/IMG/jpg/d520_4.jpg

Formidable little fighter with nose-mounted 20mm Hispano (+ 4 MGs) - comparable to bf109E for potency/performance (apart from direct fuel-injection)...

Dear Trollbug.

Just one suggestion, but an important one I think. You REALLY need a native English speaker for writing the texts in your web page. It is practically unintelligible in places.

Don't take this in the wrong way. I wish your effort all the best, and improving the English will be crucial for sales, I believe.

To C6_Trollbug
 

I agree with Freycinet...and yet I cheated because I read the french part before looking at the english part! I could probably improve (at least a bit) the english texts on your site. Would you be interested or do you have someone able to do this on your team?

Amically,

JV

Can you give us a sales site...might want to look this over when my FFB stick gives up the ghost...

Re: New gear for BoB
 

It's easy to define expensive. It's a ratio between the amount of time you must spend to work for the funds : to the functionality/usefulness the thing does. It helps to compare the thing to similar things too, as they do the same or similar functionality.

As the ratio increases the thing becomes expensive.

Most people would have to work two weeks, or more, to buy that stick. Add that to the "work" done to play the game and it becomes harder and harder to justify.

-Raven

Agree, with both.

Could a mod move the last few posts to a new thread about that stick please? :roll: