Seriously?? I am a bit surprised by this comment..... I guess I would have never thought upgrading in the stick dept would make that much of a noticable difference. In what ways would you say it improved your flying?
I was able to control throttle far better, plus having an upgraded stick gave me much MUCH better control with my aircraft with rudder pedals - Certain aircraft like P38J you have to watch your throttle more then anything because you can easily go from 420 to compression speed in 1 second flat.
I can push the envelope far better now with flying then previously.
I used an old twisty stick - you couldn't manage the throttle and stick and rudder at the same time, it was to much work for one hand, I gradually moved to TrackIR once I got used to the thrustmaster, although I prefer the hat switch the TrackIR does wonders keeping track of bogeys
as long as you get used to it - and it will take months - far easier to learn the new stick/throttle then gradually upgrade into Track IR.
I generally fly Track IR for main arena, but I still am not comfortable since buying it in March to use for Scenarios and FSO yet, my SA is quite fine with the hat switch, I would put it with the best in the game, TRackIR will improve the SA eventually, but right now I think it takes far to long getting adjusted to it.
My biggest problems is snap shots, and deflections - having to twink the trackIR enough so that I can snap back into regular view, then use my buttons on the joystick to seat myself for the shot - with the hat switch you simply let it go and it takes you to the default position, sometime that takes time really.
This is really debatable, some would probably say TrackIR improved them, I believe it will - however the stick was the major boost in my flying.
