FS2020: VIRPIL WarBRD-D HOTAS Bundle Review - Are These Controls Truly The Best Out There? 

I love my Virpil gear. I have been building up a set over the last year, just finishing my Delta-grip omni throttle.

I’ve had Virpil stuff for the last few years, great stuff for the most part, but I hope to be moving to a VPForce Rhino FFB by the end of the year.

I Got a two stick setup so I can use it for most flight and space games and the configuring really does take a while. I can't say I was ready for that when I got it but I do appreciate what you can do with it once you learn it all. I still don't quite know what my final setup will be. Currently I made the left stick a throttle, by removing the centering spring for the pitch and turning on the dampeners on the CM3 Base. It was really easy to do :D Still I think I might wanna put it all back and change it to be up and down instead of throttle as it has been recommended for space sims, throttle could just as easily be put on a scroll wheel or something ells. Or I might mess about with foot pedals. I'd say the hardest thing is knowing what does what and setting it up consistently in most or all games. I really wish I could rename the inputs tho, so when I bind a key it will say "joystick trigger 1" instead of just "Button 4" but it might be a limitation of windows really. Gear is solid as a rock, gonna let my kids inherit them one day. So I'm not in a hurry to learn it all as it gets a bit daunting. I do recommend simpler flightsims or arcade games to start of with. Games with more game in them, and less controls, as you learn how to do everything. Brew Barons is a treat, with just the right complexity to start off with for me. I think Everspace 2 is another good one :D I tried setting it up for Warthunder but just the amount of controls made my head hurt. I don't even think my keyboard has enough buttons for that one should I wanna bind everything lol. Still tho, bind what you need, not what you can! Experiment, experience and enhance :D See you in the skys!

I have been looking at this for Star Citizen, since my preference would be HOTAS even though most people tells me to really go HOSAS. With the right Stick you get the usual up, left, down and right as well as the yaw (replacing mouse and Q and E keys). When it comes to W and S you get to use the throttle, but the only missing are A and D which is the Strafe Right and Left. Do you have a solution for this?

What i would like to know please is, can you use the hotas throttle in your right hand? I have the same warbird base but with a left-hand stick so getting a throttle hotas to work with the right-hand is a problem. It would be great if its easy with the right-hand.

I have Virpil Stick and Winwing Throttle and I can say they are at least on par if not Winwing better because the stick is Mongoose and it's plasticky and poorly executet so I had to "upgrade it" to bring it to the thickness of the Alpha grips... however the buttons on Virpil stick can't be redeemed and they are bad as heck. I can say they are on par because the WarBRD base is rock solid and the "idea" behind the stick grip was good but poorly executed and the Alpha is way better (I know because "I touched one from a friend" :D :D :D

after lots of trial and error- Virpil😃

Hi Huddison, so this is a definite winner over flight deck?

I bought the exact juystick but i cant get the buttons to work on that program lol. Lucky its for helecopters so i only wanted to set up trim buttons. Im a noob for good hardware tho. My collective is perfect

I purchased the same equipment but it is back order. Waiting impatiently. The programming should be a breeze with SPAD.Next.

Any discount code?

Lol. Your title. You funny funny man.

i want something like this for xbox.....

I am just about to get rid of my 4 month of Virpil throttle and Prime Joystick because it is not a patch on the WinWing Throttle and F15E Joysticks I now use all the time. The programming software for Virpil is just ridiculous.

James your spoilt now