Thrustmaster TCA Sidestick Airbus Edition - Ergonomic Flight Stick with 12 Remappable Buttons and Thrust Reverser for PC

This is a really good joystick, it has a smooth and firm action in all 3 axes with a medium strength spring. I am using it with X-Plane 11 with the B737-800 and had no issues installing and configuring it. The only small downside as others have said is that the throttle slider came installed upside down on my unit, it was sticking out below the front of the unit at minimum throttle. Also the detent arm for reverse was not even touching the cut-outs intended for it so it had no feel at all. I fixed both these issues myself with little effort. You can lift off the black plastic throttle button by carefully and slowly rocking it up and down as you lift. Then remove the screw holding the plastic detent arm and lift it off. Cut a couple of thin strips of electrical tape and place directly underneath where the arm sits, as close to the screw as possible. Replace the arm, press it down on the tape and tighten the screw. The arm ends should now sit about 2mm higher than before. Add another layer of tape if needed. There is a very good guide on Reddit to do this, just google "Detent Fix for Thrustmaster Airbus Stick". I'm not going to knock off a star for this problem even though this should have been done correctly at the factory as it was a very easy fix and I otherwise love this joystick. Hope the above is helpful to someone.

As PC joysticks seemed to have been sold out everywhere for the last few months, for my daily fix of MS FS2020 I'd been making do with my 10 year old Speedlink Black Widow flight stick. It was clunky, with one of the springs broken and made an already complex simulation more tricky than it should have been. So, when I saw this Thrustmaster TCA joystick was finally back in stock, at a sensible price, I snapped it up straight away. It's simple plug-and-play and MS FS2020 detected it and mapped the controls immediately. There are 16 programmable buttons, which is sufficient for the majority of commonly used FS 2020 controls. The mapped default controls all feel very intuitive and the default degree of sensitivity for the main flight controls and throttle is spot-on and shouldn't require any tweaking. The difference between my old joystick and this was remarkable! Had the Warthog HOTAS been in stock, I would probably have bought that instead. Despite this being of plastic construction, it feels fairly robust and has certainly met my expectations. At a 6th of the price of the Warthog, it has saved me a fair chunk of money too. Excellent product that I can recommend most highly.

So what can you say about a joystick??? I was quite excited about trying this stick after my previous Thrustmaster T.Flight broke.....those potentiometers don't last forever. This stick however uses a totally different system for sensing movement which is so much better. As a heavy X-Plane user I was hoping the control of the A319/A321 would improve ever so slightly. Here's my opinion... -- Installation on Windows 10 -- Install the drivers as it makes switching between mode1/2throttle easier. Don't install the SMART software unless you really need it. -- Pitch/roll/yaw axis -- Much better than the potentiometer models There is plenty of travel in all directions Yaw can be locked if you have pedals -- Buttons -- Loads of buttons and all work well although you sometimes need to be very positive and press in the centre of the buttons located on the base. -- Left / Right handed switching -- This is easy to switch. Personally I prefer right handed mode. A small screwdriver is needed to swap the buttons. Remember to switch the button underneath the base to left or right -- Throttle -- Where do I start. Thrustmaster have tried to make this "clever" and failed miserably. There are 2 modes. Mode1 is a standard throttle so the bottom stop is idle and the top stop is full throttle. Mode2 is designed for aircraft with reversers and moves the idle position about 5mm forward of the bottom stop as well as adding an additional button to the bottom position. The idea is that you map "toggle reversers" to this extra button. So you reduce the throttle to idle passing over the threshold, then move the slider to the bottom on touchdown to trigger the reversers, then slide all the way forward for full throttle reverse......then to idle, then to the bottom to turn off the reversers....then back to idle. This seems like such a great idea but it's actually rubbish for one simple reason. Thrustmaster didn't engineer the physical idle detent point correctly so you can't actually feel the stop point. You can see in the picture the recess for the detent, and also the piece of plastic which is supposed to provide resistance at the idle point. It just doesn't work as it needs to be sprung. What ends up happening is you're constantly trying to work out if you're are at idle, or if you've set the reversers off. I went back to mode1 and assigned the reversers to a button and have no issues. The throttle range and sensitivity in mode1 is excellent. In summary, a great controller with a terrible (mode2) throttle implementation.

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İstanbul içi 13 saat gibi mükemmel bir sürede teslim edildi, kutusundan ithalatçı garantisi ve gamepass hediyesi ile çıkıyor. Buton ve joystick hissiyatı güzel, fiyatına göre tamamen plastik olması biraz üzücü ancak genel olarak sağlam ve kaliteli. Ben xbox’a takıp kullanmak için aldım, msfs2024 için hiçbir ayar yapma gereksinimi olmadan doğrudan çalışıyor. Kesinlikle tavsiye ederim. Throttle lever olarak çalışan kısım yetersiz daha keyfili bir kullanım için gaz kollarınıda almak şart…

Best stick with the rudder and throttle function comined together in rhe joy stick.