I love the kraut looks of the stick Sokol.Some ideas I have on joysticks that you may find useful.I find joysticks nowadays are made too big for desktop use.They try to replicate the real stick dimensions and it doesn't work well for a home PC.The perfect feeling stick for me was one of the first joysticks ever produced and that is the Thrustmaster Top Gun.
The reason I feel this way may be hard to explain but I will try.When you are using a desktop model the stick pivots too much forcing your wrist to bend and puts the hand in a bad position.When you are in a real plane and you pull back on the stick the stick doesn't tilt but moves backwards as the pivot point is much further away.You can then easily lift your hand to hit the top buttons because your wrist stays straight while you pull back with the elbow.A smaller stick with buttons closer together doesn't put your wrist at such an unnatural position as a life size stick so that is why I feel that for desktop models a small stick is best.
One other thing I feel is very important is the spring type used.I will use my two joysticks as an example.My
Saitek X55 feels horrible as that stick has a mechanism where once the spring compresses any movement in any other direction has no resistance whatsoever because the spring is compressed already.My T.16000m on the other hand feels great because when I pull back on the stick and then push left or right the mechanism has to still deflect the spring in that direction.Its so good that I am planning on attaching my
Saitek stick to my T.16000m base.
