A big year for my v-flying career. First in spring I finally ditched mouse looking for an imperfect but good enough Freetrack rig, and then today I went from six problematic years of this...
To this... I wanted to buy an X-55 for a few months now, but totally didn't plan on buying one today. That is, until I saw a guy selling it for 130 pounds. Considering that the cheapest new X-55 in Croatia costs 175 pounds (and that's supposedly discounted from 190), that's a pretty damn good price for a practically new HOTAS, with warranty, and the extra shelves for the joystick and throttle that attach to a table that you can see in the pictures, which the previous owner crafted himself (won't be using them for a while though, they don't really go with my table). So I pretty much instantly called him, sat in my car and drove 50km to Zagreb to pick it up. First impressions: what the hell am I supposed to map to all these buttons, spinny things, toggle and hat switches.