Yup, I picked it up on (bass) guitar forums as Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Seems to apply to many hobbies. Not just the expensive ones either. My girlfriend is struggling to fight it with colored pencils, camping gear, board games, and the list goes on
Yesterday I noticed Baltic Dragon submitted his reworked Mirage 2000C Red Flag campaign and I thought out loud how nice it would be to play that one with rotary encoders for radio channel switching. She said “just buy the throttle”.
It’s on back-order estimated to take about 3 weeks. Given the recent price drop, I’m not expecting a huge Black Friday sale (last year they did a “stacking” discount which would only be 5% for one throttle).
Might as well spend the Christmas bonus now already at the start of the season and enjoy using the throttle a few more cold months
a bit late to reply but oh well…
I just wanted to put in a plug for PointCtrl. Yes it is a bit fiddly to set up initially, but after that it just works. That’s been my experience. And in any case MilesD (the maker) is Super willing to help out. He’s jumped online with me at what must be 3am his time to help me get sorted.
Over the years I have gone from mouse, to mouse buttons on Hotas, to a plethora of Win Wing panels, and now ditched the lot for PointCtrl. Just one panel for gear levers. I find PointCtrl awesome.
When you get your new throttle, map some buttons on there to mouse (use Joystick Gremlin). Head movement points the mouse in VR. Good for switches in the cockpit. Then real mouse just for menus.
Sorry to bump the thread again, but I must update my post. A friend showed me that with the Winwing Orion2 throttle (and probably any throttle that works right to left in the DCS axis tune window), if you check the “Slider” box you can then set the “Deadzone” to 20 to move the maximum throttle position to the detent.
It arrived!
No time today for proper install and test run, let alone figuring out what I am going to do with all those buttons… Great chance to not have everything on the stick anymore.
Im happy for you. I found a way to keep it much stiffer when using the two throttles locked as one. I glued two self-adhesive rubber friction feet onto themselves (so the fricion rubber stays out both sides) and just shimmied a little block in there. Easy to take off for bimotors and much less annoying flying the F-16. High tech engineering.
The throttle has been amazing. Refuelling the F-14A is a joy now and the various buttons are a lovely addition to my Mirage 2000C HOTAS profile.
But for the past week and a half, my Saitek pedals started acting up: when moving the rudder axis, the right wheel brake axis would spike all over the place.
Thus my toe brakes are essentially unusable. I opened up the pedals and cleaned the pots a bit but did not spot anything out of the ordinary. Except a major design flaw that had a triplet of thin cables get pushed around when applying left rudder. I am guessing the pushing is causing those cables to connect where they shouldn’t or vice versa.
After lamenting my fate for a few days and considering just getting another plastic cheapish (€100) pair of Thrustmaster pedals, I ordered the MFG pedals yesterday, with the damper.
Thus joining the I-was-not-planning-to-spend-this-much-this-winter-club.
Congrats Freak. I purchased mine the first week they were released and just recently had to pop open the bottom cover to increase the lever tension on the two throttles. Otherwise, no issues at all.
Count me in. Took me a long time to get them. Love them. Last night I was testing something and noticed how much extra pressure it took at the extreme ends of the throw. Now, not a real pilot here, but it sure seemed more ‘authentic’ as opposed to me old CH pedals, which had the same force throughout. They were good pedals but not in the same league. Note that I didn’t get the extra damper bits either.
Enjoy. With a quality kit like this it only hurts once
Getting real late now though and tomorrow is an office day so rather than muck up the software configuration in a hurry, I will continue tomorrow evening.
It’s been a pleasure to adjust everything already! Added damper, raised toe brake angle, adjusted spring force.
but looks good 
