Alternate Joystick Controllers

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Windwarrior

I have read on this site that the joysticks supplied with the KOP are not the best. How are they deficient?

Can anyone give me an alternative suggest? The manufacturer and/or site where they can be purchased?

Thanks in advance.

Why not just customize the handles of the Kit of Parts joysticks? Last year, our team made custom HDPE handles for the CH Flightsticks using our lathe. After unscrewing the handle on the stock joysticks, you can take it off. Then fabricate a custom (preferably ambidextrous) handle of your own, and put than onto the stub of the old joystick handle. Viola, a new ambidextrous joystick!

As I documented in one of my earliar posts about joysticks, many of the KOP joysticks problems can be solved mechanically. The right-handed handle issue, and the "touchiness" of them (as in going past center) can be solved by taking off the stock handle, and putting on a newer, shorter handle. The new and custom shorter handles enable the KOP joysticks to become stiffer, not go past center, and now they are ambidextrous!

Custom handles on the CH Flightstick joysticks:






Handle-less KOP Joystick awaiting new handles: