sadly this “Vintage” throttle unit is just a tech demo… not planned to be released.
AeroGator , DCS Forum
Blockquote : Just to clarify something, it is a mock render, which has never seriously been planned for production. One of “maybe some day” projects that every good designer has in numbers.
(sorry Sokol it might be a good joke to post it, but it’d better be kept till 1 April).
Please do not see it as an official announcement or any sort of promise.
the Throttle grips will be changeable 
Man, that thing just screams Sturmovik to me!
I think that the dent system may have been a key component in the decision to go with a slider … unless they were just faithfully representing the Eastern designs. Likely the simpler explanation is correct 
True master mode is to play with an array of 10 unmarked keyboards with each key being mapped to a separate function in no logical pattern or ordering.
In other news, I think the fact that we’re debating the lack of an analog TDC hat in a specific location (it has a thumb-stick, right?) and the merits of sliding vs. pivoting throttles is a sign that this is a welcome icebreaker into a pretty stale market.
I completely agree!
But it might be worth mentioning…
…that you and I are the only two guys left using CH Throttles and never stopped sliding for power in the first place!
As per the TDC, isn’t the radar cursor control on the Viper throttle operated by the thumb? Might not be that awkard after all…
Edit: But it looks like that hat might not be a slew control but rather a 4/8 way hat.
Yeah but I can’t tell 'em apart! VKB here, SOB there, FNG the other place. It’s a confusing alphabet soup of Cyrillic translating badly to Roman. Plus, in the stick market I am never clear if the thing is supposed to fit on a Warthog base or is a device all its own. (I was similarly confused with VR and dove in anyway. Maybe I will eventually here as well.)
Found the Mi-8 controller…(pull for power…)
That’s valid. On the other hand my utility for purchase is that it must simulate this:
and this:
Better than my current warthog set to get me over the fence. Here’s to hoping that hat on the front is at least a four way + push.
Well, I fell in! I got the VKB Gunfighter pro on order. I also ordered the adaptor so I can try that base with the Warthog. I got 2 WT throttles so another throttle will be hard to justify… Cant wait to get it here…
What plane is that based on?
I have been waiting a looong time for this. VKB is finally ready to share some additional details about their new throttle.
For more information, please go here: VKB TECS: MODULARITY FULL AHEAD - VKB-SIM
But a couple of interesting points:
Copied 1 image from their site to give a look at the throttle. The base is a temp/development base as they are waiting on patents for the ‘electric detents’.
Hm… Well, the point of a detent is to stop the motion or give you tactile feedback of the position. I don’t understand this point of theirs. You’re either below detent, at detent or above. If you need to move subtly about the detent, the purpose of the detent seems wasted…?
I mean, if the AB kicks in at 80%, I want the AB detent just below that, so I can advance the throttle until the detent stops it, without lighting the AB. I don’t want to advance the throttle to the detent and subtly beyond the detent…
Besides, detents in real aircraft are usually mechanical.
So I guess that I don’t quite see what they are getting at here.
The other point, of detents having deadzones, is valid. At least when using ball plunger detents like I did. But when using rollers and notches, as VPC does, this is really negligible.
But it would be cool if the electronic detents would allow for different detents in different aircraft.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what they come up with.
I wonder if they will have finger lifts, or maybe buttons that must be held, to move into or out if, detent. That would be nice…
Or even a series of them, so you can feel the stages of afterburner in the jets that do that (many of them IIRC)
Since the VPC software can generate a button press based on axis position and because you can create a profile for different aircraft, in essence, it does this now, right?
