Somehow good news: the confirmation of the exclusivity of this first batch of joysticks from Paccus. If you visit their web:

http://www.paccus.com/

you can read just above the price "The first exclusive, numbered series of Hawks/Falcons will be ready for shipping by June 2011". Maybe that is the reason for such pricing policy.

The clouds over the horizon are moving away, by now. Hope they do not have to come back afterwards.

Engadin.

P.S. Some additional info regarding the special features of these exclusive series included in the FAQ section of the Paccus web: http://www.paccus.com/forcefeedbackjoystickfaq

Oh, and don't forget to add in the price of a set of Paccus hydraulic pedals to your budget :o

You know what that looks so European its not funny. I'd rather have something more fitting of the period this sim is set in if I could afford to over that crap n e day.

Tooo much dosh ..
Why don`t Microsoft get their head out their Rear and start selling the FFBII again or something similar but up to date .
I would gladly dump the stick section of my X52 Pro for a supported 2011 version of the most fun flight stick ever made.
It would be a case of FFBII011 Rules :)

€2,397 for just a stick..... They need a reality check and in addition a market research. hydraulics or no hydraulics, that thing ain't gonna sell well. I love the G940 apart from that it is obviously designed and botched together by low salary slaves in China.

I didn't watch them all but the ones I did were pilots that don't fly flight sims.

They're reacting to the FFB which I'm sure is quite excellent but unfortunately it's the rest of the stick that's quite anemic.

I mean seriously, what kind of lame button layout is that? If you are marketing the console segment than great, keep it simple and looking good through the cellophane packaging but for flight simmers who might actually cough up the money for it you'd think they could have done at least a little bit of market research.

I also notice that it doesn't seem like they kept the whole cheap looking plastic chrome but instead used a cheap looking plastic look.

+1

When I see a comparison to MSFF2, and by pilots that actually fly simulators (what did they test this on in the first place, FSX???) I will take it seriously.

Still - no matter how good it is, for that kind of money I can buy 2 PCs that will run CloD on max settings. And then some!

Look at this listing for a Cessna 172

http://www.controller.com/listingsde...WK/1201705.htm

Now... let me see I could only buy 5 of these joysticks, maybe 2 joysticks and 2 sets of pedals or I could buy a WHOLE AIRPLANE.

Hi seems that you are right :)
look at this
http://www.flugzeug24.com/de/motorfl...marco-j-5.html