Quote Originally Posted by Whacker
Heh... I splurged awhile back and dropped the $ for the Cougar HOTAS. I gotta say, it's by far the BEST joystick I've ever had in my entire existence. Solid cold metal, each unit weighs a few pounds easily, and the construction quality is amazing. The software that comes with it is a bit quirky, but insanely powerful. The only thing I'm missing are rudder pedals, but I've been trying to butter up the boss and see if she'll let me get some.

I am green with envy. I heard the Cougars aren't the best for prop sims, but for jet sims they have no equal. I'd love to try Falcon 4 with a Cougar system. Wow!

What are you flying?

Quote Originally Posted by Husar
I also have a Cyborg Evo, but what I don't like about it, is that for some reason I have to recalibrate it every time I restart Windows.
I'd like to get an X-52 Pro, but that's a bit expensive and lately I don't fly that often anymore, so...
When you say recalibrate, do you mean redo all your settings, because that definitely shouldn't happen. I have to select my flight profile whenever I turn on my computer, but that's no big deal and I'd have to do it anyway because I have several flight profiles for different sims. Did you install the Saitek drivers?

For my part, although the X52 is nice, I think using two Saitek Evos is a better choice. The flightsticks are ambidextrous and with two of them you have enough buttons and switches to ignore the keyboard and keep your eyes on the screen. Also, two Evos together cost about 25% of the price of an X52 system.

I'm using an Evo as my left hand throttle and I think it's great.