Fully ambidextrous and modular joystick, with 4 swappable joystick head button modules that let you choose between 4 different configurations (right or left seat of an airliner, narrow or wide center stick configuration for small aircraft).
Ergonomic replica of the Airbus sidestick (A320 type), with built-in throttle axis and thrust reverser mechanism.
21 action buttons on Xbox and on PC : 18 buttons on the base (including View, Menu, Share x2 and Xbox Guide) and 4 on the handle,8-direction point of view hat switch,PC only: 1 virtual button on the throttle (bottom 20% of the axis).
4 independent axes, with twist rudder (controlled by rotating the joystick handle).
3.5 mm stereo headset microphone jack for realistic online flight sessions.Mechanical blocker to disable the rotation of the stick if the player is equipped with a rudder.
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Alessandra C. –
Eccezionale, sembra di avere un quadro comandi in salotto.
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Chaz Draycott –
First off – those wondering PC compatibility because it’s got “Xbox” on it – don’t worry. Buy it. You just have to live with the Xbox button labels. Other than that, no differences to the “specific PC ones”.
This is a wonderful product that completely changes how easy it is to go through some of the most necessary components of a flight, without having to move your camera around in-game, while adding a tonne of immersion.
Admittedly, it’s a bit plasticy, and some of the buttons and switches on my example weren’t perfectly straight, but the ability to tighten and loosen some of the axis to add or remove weight is a lovely feature.
One of the coolest things is being able to adjust the flight stick to be left-handed, digitally and physically. Lovely attention to detail.
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TheJase –
I bought this to use with Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), having been using a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro flight stick before.
First impressions are that the flight stick is much higher quality than my previous one. Movement is much more precise and the axis are much better centred, with very little dead zone required. With the previous stick there was a small amount of play on the rudder twist axis and simply holding the grip caused a small amount of continual left rudder input that I had to consciously counteract, or set a 20% deadzone to cancel out. This didn’t happen at all with the Thrustmaster.
As the Thrustmaster is supplied with the throttle quandrant, I haven’t been using any of the buttons on the stick base, but their location on both sides of the stick might make it difficult to reach half of them with the other hand. However, putting them all on one side means the stick wouldn’t be suitable for ambidextrous use as it currently is.
The quadrant really adds a touch of realism to flight sim controls, but it’s not without a couple of design issues.
First of all, on the main thrust levers, the five detents are equally spaced along the range of movement, like 0-25-50-75-100%, but this is not the case on the real Airbus A320 thrust levers which looks to be spaced more like 0-30-70-85-100%. On the real levers, the A/THR section between the second and third detents is larger and presumably allows for finer control of the thrust. On the Thrustmaster quadrant, because this section is smaller, any adjustments are much more sensitive and it makes precise low level thrust control very difficult. The problem is compounded by FS2020 using a odd sensitivity curve on those axis to ensure that the detent positions correspond to the correct power levels. My attempts to adjust the curves just resulted in the game not detecting CL, FLX or TOGA power levels when the levers were at those detents. Because of this, trying to spin up the engines very slightly to start taxiing is quite difficult and usually results in going far too fast along the taxiway.
A second issue is that the Auto Brake control bears little resemblance to the real A320 control. On this product, it is a rotary knob with six positions: DISARM, BTV, LO, 2, 3, HI, but the A320 just uses three push buttons: LO, MED, MAX. The five knob positions BTV to Hi correspond to controller buttons 22-26 being pressed, and the DISARM position is the state with no button pressed. This makes it impossible to configure the DISARM function in FS2020 as you would need to configure it as all five buttons 22-26 being released, but you can only specify up to two buttons for each control. I haven’t made any use of auto brake on my A320 flights yet, so I don’t know how big of a problem this is.
One other very minor issue is that the friction on the thrust levers was slightly too loose to begin with, so they would slowly slip back towards Idle from low thrust. This was easily rectified by tightening the friction screw at the back of the unit.
Overall I’m pretty pleased with the stick and quadrant. They certainly help with the immersion of flight sims and I’ve had fun reproducing real A320 flights that I’ve been a passenger on in the past, but from the pilot point of view. They’ve also highlighted the difference in precision and quality when compared with lower price sticks. I’m tempted to buy the pedals, and extra thrust quadrant section for four engine control next.
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ALEX M. –
I love this product and brings me much joy when on MFS2020 but there are a few things which could be better. The detents could be a bit more clicky, should be a bit bigger and most of all would’ve been amazing if it would be back-lit. Overall a good product.
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Francisco –
Al principio me desilucióne por la sensibilidad mal calibrada creer que así se quedaría sin solución, después de ver varios tutoriales y dejarme en lo mismo, le intente por mi cuenta le empeze a mover hasta que logré solucionarlo y configurarlo para diferentes aeronaves Boeing y Airbus, hay que hacer nuevo perfil para cada clase de aeronave y reprogramar los botones así como sensibilidad de cada palanca… marca bien desde relenti hasta atoga grado a grado, solo puedo decir que exelente producto
Alessandra C. –
Eccezionale, sembra di avere un quadro comandi in salotto.
Chaz Draycott –
First off – those wondering PC compatibility because it’s got “Xbox” on it – don’t worry. Buy it. You just have to live with the Xbox button labels. Other than that, no differences to the “specific PC ones”.
This is a wonderful product that completely changes how easy it is to go through some of the most necessary components of a flight, without having to move your camera around in-game, while adding a tonne of immersion.
Admittedly, it’s a bit plasticy, and some of the buttons and switches on my example weren’t perfectly straight, but the ability to tighten and loosen some of the axis to add or remove weight is a lovely feature.
One of the coolest things is being able to adjust the flight stick to be left-handed, digitally and physically. Lovely attention to detail.
TheJase –
I bought this to use with Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), having been using a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro flight stick before.
First impressions are that the flight stick is much higher quality than my previous one. Movement is much more precise and the axis are much better centred, with very little dead zone required. With the previous stick there was a small amount of play on the rudder twist axis and simply holding the grip caused a small amount of continual left rudder input that I had to consciously counteract, or set a 20% deadzone to cancel out. This didn’t happen at all with the Thrustmaster.
As the Thrustmaster is supplied with the throttle quandrant, I haven’t been using any of the buttons on the stick base, but their location on both sides of the stick might make it difficult to reach half of them with the other hand. However, putting them all on one side means the stick wouldn’t be suitable for ambidextrous use as it currently is.
The quadrant really adds a touch of realism to flight sim controls, but it’s not without a couple of design issues.
First of all, on the main thrust levers, the five detents are equally spaced along the range of movement, like 0-25-50-75-100%, but this is not the case on the real Airbus A320 thrust levers which looks to be spaced more like 0-30-70-85-100%. On the real levers, the A/THR section between the second and third detents is larger and presumably allows for finer control of the thrust. On the Thrustmaster quadrant, because this section is smaller, any adjustments are much more sensitive and it makes precise low level thrust control very difficult. The problem is compounded by FS2020 using a odd sensitivity curve on those axis to ensure that the detent positions correspond to the correct power levels. My attempts to adjust the curves just resulted in the game not detecting CL, FLX or TOGA power levels when the levers were at those detents. Because of this, trying to spin up the engines very slightly to start taxiing is quite difficult and usually results in going far too fast along the taxiway.
A second issue is that the Auto Brake control bears little resemblance to the real A320 control. On this product, it is a rotary knob with six positions: DISARM, BTV, LO, 2, 3, HI, but the A320 just uses three push buttons: LO, MED, MAX. The five knob positions BTV to Hi correspond to controller buttons 22-26 being pressed, and the DISARM position is the state with no button pressed. This makes it impossible to configure the DISARM function in FS2020 as you would need to configure it as all five buttons 22-26 being released, but you can only specify up to two buttons for each control. I haven’t made any use of auto brake on my A320 flights yet, so I don’t know how big of a problem this is.
One other very minor issue is that the friction on the thrust levers was slightly too loose to begin with, so they would slowly slip back towards Idle from low thrust. This was easily rectified by tightening the friction screw at the back of the unit.
Overall I’m pretty pleased with the stick and quadrant. They certainly help with the immersion of flight sims and I’ve had fun reproducing real A320 flights that I’ve been a passenger on in the past, but from the pilot point of view. They’ve also highlighted the difference in precision and quality when compared with lower price sticks. I’m tempted to buy the pedals, and extra thrust quadrant section for four engine control next.
ALEX M. –
I love this product and brings me much joy when on MFS2020 but there are a few things which could be better. The detents could be a bit more clicky, should be a bit bigger and most of all would’ve been amazing if it would be back-lit. Overall a good product.
Francisco –
Al principio me desilucióne por la sensibilidad mal calibrada creer que así se quedaría sin solución, después de ver varios tutoriales y dejarme en lo mismo, le intente por mi cuenta le empeze a mover hasta que logré solucionarlo y configurarlo para diferentes aeronaves Boeing y Airbus, hay que hacer nuevo perfil para cada clase de aeronave y reprogramar los botones así como sensibilidad de cada palanca… marca bien desde relenti hasta atoga grado a grado, solo puedo decir que exelente producto