CH Products Fighterstick USB
- USB programmable joystick
- 3 axis and 24 buttons (three push buttons, one mode switch button, three 4 way hat switches and one 8 way point of view hat)
- Total of 132 programmable functions with the new Control Manager software (included)
- Realistic F-16 handle
- Compatible with Windows 98, 2000, Me, and XP or Mac OS 8.6 and above
Product Description
Awarded the #1 Joystick in Multimedia World’s Readers’ Choice Awards, the FlightStick looks and feels just like a real jet stick, built with potentiometers rated to 2 million cycles, sturdy base and fire buttons rated to 10 million shots; when you grab on, you’ll feel the difference of CH’s quality craftsmanship and durability…. More >>
Programming the game controller, the Y-Axis wasn’t responding as it pointed out in the huge Programing Manual. Sent it back for refund.
Rating: 1 / 5
For the price, stick feels very cheap… buttons have no range of motion but
are merely short clicks if moved in any given direction.
No software included for macs….. I think this product should have been
no more than 25 bucks…..
Will probably return. I’m sure there are sticks out there with better responsiveness
and a much more realistic feel……
Rating: 2 / 5
I started with this sticks lesser sibling, 3 buttons and a hat on the stick, you,ve seen it. I don’t know what happened to it somewhere between 95and 97 but let me jut say< CH is the King of flight controls
Rating: 5 / 5
If you cannot afford the Cougar, this is the next best HOTAS. I really have to make a correction to a posted review earlier by CeeTee. CeeTee stated that the stick was not realistic, because the F-16 has the stick between the legs. If you leanred this from playing LOMAC, then you might want to try something a little more realistic. The Viper has always had a fly-by-wire side stick design. When the first prototype was designed in 1974, it had the sidestick design. Back at that time, the Viper was nicknamed, the computer jet. Just thought I would staighten this out so someone doesn’t get the wrong information.
Rating: 5 / 5
This controller has some really good…assignable options like …multiple hat switches and buttons and a mode selector…
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But you can reach up to the controls only if ur body size was 6.5 feet minimum and u have hands to match…These are huuuuge…..its not possible to keep ur thumb in the angle for the lower hat switch and then just flick up to the pov hat switch…
you will literally have to raise ur elbow and whole arm to reach it.
and I am not a small person Im 6 foot.
The most disappointing aspect was the trim control wheels.
They are infact not controllers that you can just assign trim axises to…
but a kind of caliberation mechanism for the stick itself…
so when u use the elevator trim axis it modifies your joystick axis ever so slightly to have a upward or downward tendency….this really sucks in game as its very non intuitive and I found them very very difficult to control…kind of sad assuming I bought these transported all the way to India only because of the trim wheels
But having said that I must also say the joystick axis are very sensitive and nice….and having a seperate pivot for pitch and roll allows for very precise input..
and they’re built like beasts as well…very very tough…
wish they would make one in a slightly smaller size as well…:(
Rating: 3 / 5