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Skybird · 07-12-06, 09:39 AM

I have a wheel, but use the Throttle for the many keyboard commands some sims like Nascar 2003 come with (displaying several diagnosticla screens during race, for example). I do not use the throttle axis. In FPS, I use mouse and instead of the keyboard, the throttle again. - Subman, do you know CH manager software? According to your reference to windows panel and such, you do not. It does for CH HOTAS, what Foxy does for Cougar, referring to the first Foxy there was when it came out. You can use the HOTAS as a standard Windows joystick, yes. But for creating command profiles, you use the Control Manager. That one is very flexible and easy-to-us. As I said, I don't know what you can NOT do with it, and very quickly so. To implement a complete set of commands for all buttons of the stick on one level is an issue of less than a minute. What can you do with Foxy, that CH Control Manager can't? Maybe there is something, and i just don't miss it. - If you want to complain about CH, flexibility and ergonomy it is NOT. Refer to the springs instead, that are a bit too soft maybe, for some people's taste. I myself am used to it. - And now tell me what you can do with cougar and foxy what you can'T with CH.

Obviously you have rotary switches. I am glad that I do not have them, I prefer to have adjustements being done in fixed intervals by buttons, so that is the only majpor difference that I see. CH has a ministick on throttle, two POVs (that can be used a non-POV as well), and more 4-way, 8-way and 1-way buttons than the cougar. It is also more expensive than the Cougar, unfortunately. I checked German market and saw it on offer for around 175 euros (up to 250), the fighterstick comes at around 130-180 euros, the throttle at around 120-140.

07-12-06, 09:39 AM	#8
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,626 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I have a wheel, but use the Throttle for the many keyboard commands some sims like Nascar 2003 come with (displaying several diagnosticla screens during race, for example). I do not use the throttle axis. In FPS, I use mouse and instead of the keyboard, the throttle again. - Subman, do you know CH manager software? According to your reference to windows panel and such, you do not. It does for CH HOTAS, what Foxy does for Cougar, referring to the first Foxy there was when it came out. You can use the HOTAS as a standard Windows joystick, yes. But for creating command profiles, you use the Control Manager. That one is very flexible and easy-to-us. As I said, I don't know what you can NOT do with it, and very quickly so. To implement a complete set of commands for all buttons of the stick on one level is an issue of less than a minute. What can you do with Foxy, that CH Control Manager can't? Maybe there is something, and i just don't miss it. - If you want to complain about CH, flexibility and ergonomy it is NOT. Refer to the springs instead, that are a bit too soft maybe, for some people's taste. I myself am used to it. - And now tell me what you can do with cougar and foxy what you can'T with CH. Obviously you have rotary switches. I am glad that I do not have them, I prefer to have adjustements being done in fixed intervals by buttons, so that is the only majpor difference that I see. CH has a ministick on throttle, two POVs (that can be used a non-POV as well), and more 4-way, 8-way and 1-way buttons than the cougar. It is also more expensive than the Cougar, unfortunately. I checked German market and saw it on offer for around 175 euros (up to 250), the fighterstick comes at around 130-180 euros, the throttle at around 120-140. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.