Logitech Flight System G940

kaiza

#1 – 10:21 AM June 2, 2009

Time to dig up the old Descent floppies...

Bucket

#2 – 10:51 AM June 2, 2009

I currently have a Saitek X45, and while cool looking, it's rather cheaply made. I've had to replace a bunch of the buttons and make repairs with epoxy and CA glue.

When it finally dies I was going to replace it with CH Products gear, but this looks like a good alternative.

I really like the mounting lugs - I might finally build that cockpit I've been threatening to do for a while now.

brianary

#3 – 10:59 AM June 2, 2009

Nothing will ever compare to the Panther XL.

bbonyx

#4 – 11:02 AM June 2, 2009

I take issue with the " almost 30-year old MS Flight Sim" (paraphrased) statement in the article. Some of us remember who really started it... SubLogic. Many hours logged on an original 5150 8088 CGA with that.

MS just did what they always do: bought it from someone else.

It was released in 81, but MS didn't take notice until 88, and even then it was just to put their name on the existing product. MS didn't truly take the reigns until Bruce Artwick left SL and they released their first in-house version in 92.

Christ I hate MS.

/Not an apple fanboy either

therevengor

#5 – 12:41 PM June 2, 2009

Didn't Falcon 3.0 have net play?

Who's down?

AirPillo

#6 – 1:41 PM June 2, 2009

It is really hard to find decent peripherals for use with flight sims.

You used to see joysticks everywhere that were modeled after actual aircraft hardware and a good brand had ones that were solidly built with a lot of metal or thick durable plastic.

Now the best you can do without looking really hard is some piece of shit by Saitek that's half composed of plastic that will break if you simply grip it too hard. Saitek makes neat peripherals with some cool features and design choices, but their QC is absolutely horrible and if you manage to buy something that isn't "broken" in some ways right out of the box, you have to be gentle with it or you may wear it down very quickly through use.

Logitech makes decent peripherals but their offerings in decent joysticks, until I see this, hadn't apparently changed one iota since 1995 and there simply is no excuse for a joystick with a footprint of nearly 1 cubic foot that weighs 3 pounds (and, mind you, still made of all plastic) in the year 2009... and nobody seemed to carry any throttle levers or rudder pedals made by Logitech anyway.

It's good to see someone is actually willing to use their whole ass when designing products for this niche once again.

Phaedrus

#7 – 8:02 AM June 4, 2009

i had a saitek at one point (high end, fancy buttons, THE SHINY, etc). i destroyed it playing Jane's F-15 less than 2 days after purchase. not wanting to blow more cash i didnt have on a stick, i went out and bought a logitech wingman extreme.

this was almost 9 years ago. it's been through mechwarrior 3 and 4, years of falcon 4.0 online and off (gogo black knights), Jane's F-18, the last 2 versions of CFS.. and more. i like the stick sims, and i play them hard. (it's been thrown, bashed, yanked around, yelled at and generally mistreated horribly)

logitech makes an astounding product. while im sure this is not as bomb proof as a CH flighstick, id ask yourself how big a bomb you plan to plant on your desktop.. because my cheapo wingman would soak most of it and keep roasting targets.

Marlet

#8 – 1:14 PM September 3, 2009

that system is really cool but are they sure it can stand the acually movements a real plane holds? Not sure there is a control system that has yet simulated a proper piolet
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