I went online with my throwback stick setup... Got tooled. WMLute repeatedly sneeked up on me in plain sight and got me a dozen times without me even seeing him coming.
The prob is I didn't bring my good stick setup with me and the stick I have, although a decent new CH flightstick pro, only has a 4-way hat and no pinkie button. I'm having to totally re-learn the game visual lookout techniques I last used about 5 years ago when I won my good stick at the con dueling tourny winging with Drex. I spent over an hour calibrating the stick (it spikes near center in roll so I have a large deadband... ugh) and remapping keys, buttons, and views, so although it's usable it's still not intuitive yet. I'll have to re-do the cockpit view positions on most of the planes to compensate for no quartering views, and I still need to work on remapping keys because with my good stick/throttle, it didn't matter what keys did what because I programmed them all into the stick and throttle buttons. Having the trim and flap keys on opposite sides of the keyboard just doesn't help in a flat scissors...
I don't like ANY of the sticks currently on the market so I'll just suffer through with what I have for the next year. At least I brought my rudder pedals...