TM HOTAS COUGAR........love the stick and everything i can do to tune adjust alter and program it.
i have modified it and programed it so that i could use it in conjunction with my Track IR on first person "mouse and keyboard only" type first person shooters.
one of the biggest benefits of it is the all metal casing and internal linkage and armature construction, even if all the dashpots, buttons and rotaries break i can replace them from any one of a thousand sources the metal case linkage and armature will last forever.
case in point, i was starting to develop some problems with the centering of the my X and Y axis from years of use. so just a few days ago i opened the bottom of the stick, took a pair of pliers and gently squeezed the riding rails of the armature closer together, put the screws back in the bottom, recalibrate in game and perfection once again.
now so as not to lead anyone to believe that this must be done often, this is the first time i have done this in the 4 years that i have owned it. i would additionally state that my stick has been dropped, frustration slapped and generally abused many times over those 4 years. it has seen a level of rough abuse that i can easily say that no plastic shelled stick could have survived more than a month or two of.
i wont go back to cheap plastic crap sticks like the X52 or CH products ever again.
