Think twice before you buy the Flight Deck 

The title is missing a "y". 🙈 It was late... very late... Corrections: - I accidentally called the gear lever a flap lever in the beginning - Clarification: The "additional throttle" is an axis which can be assigned to flaps or anything else (coolers, prop pitch, ...)

This just confirms what I've been saying for a while already. Turtle Beach are the new Saitek of the sim space: amazing looks, good on paper, abysmal hardware and build quality that's not worth half the MSRP. Like it happened with Saitek though, I hope their emergence points the "pro" companies towards the direction current consumers are looking so we get even better stuff from them down the line.

Great review! I can 100% confirm all those mentioned things! I personaly had: - T-flight stick, T-Flight Hotas. No comment. Good for start thou. - Then i bought my first Saitek X52 Pro (it's Logitech X52 Pro now). This one served good but wear out quite soon and started to have more woble and freeplay on stick. - I tryed Saitek X56 Rhino for space combat. That one felt great with the weakest spring on the stick. But sadly the ergonomics are not great for my small hands. Sold that one too. - So i went to T16000 with throttle and even with pedals + one more stick to try HOSAS. In the end i decidet to sell it because of the gimble tension arround 0,0 and the overall build choices. - I went back to my second Logitech X52 Pro which i upgraded with magnets and lube and this one still serves well. Great ergonomy btw. Recently i bought this Turtle Beach Velocity flight deck. On the videos an reviews it look sooo good, but guess what. It's basicaly just shiny, more tech loaded and expensive T16000 with the same bad gimbal on stick. I literaly just send it back. From my point of view it's absolutely not worth the money. It feels like cheap base with tons of random good and bad addons. If there was only different gimble and more consistent quallity on all elements... It's so pitty, noone really tell's you abbout the gimbal and i saw so many reviews. I recomend to stay with the X52 Pro and save some money for VKB. At least that's what i'm doing right now. I really appreciate you honesty MYSH. Great work!

Nice review! Thanks for explaining in detail what some flaws were!

I looked at all the reviews for this product including yours, I decided to buy it because I wasn't thinking the situation with the wheels axes of the throttle was not so terrible. Damn if I was wrong!!! The product is a complete disappointment! It's interesting because it's basically a T-16000 on steroids, but all its interesting features don't work properly on major simulators. I think this video can even expand on how bad this product is, and I am one of those who wanted to concretely try it! DON'T DO IT don't be fooled by the split throttle! I should have paid more attention to your point, but I really didn't realize that half the stuff didn't work at all, thanks for your effort!

Another great review, hitting on all the important points. Love the new format as well!

Maybe it's a different kind of flight sim that I tend to do, but I can't imagine taking my eyes off the monitor to look at a display on the throttle or on the stick and that being a good decision.

Correct me if I am wrong but I swear my VKB nxt evo space combat edition has better placed buttons and seems to be better made.

Yup, just like I imagined. The "gamer" look and the touch screen were already a giveaway if you ask me.

To think you could buy a WinWing Orion 2 throttle and stick for just £35 more than this. I love their F-16 throttle, been serving me well.

I pulled the trigger and gave this one a go, Im waiting for it to arrive tomorrow and now im seeing all the negative feedback. If i have any QC issues i may return it. I was mostly drawn by the sheer amount of controls available. This is admitably my first HOTAS system so the idea behind it was to have something that can adapt to all the different games i want to try with it, MSFS, Star Citizen (mostly), warthunder and maybe some BF2042. The display and general looks attracted me as a new buyer. Unfortunately all the other products have been on the market for several years and ive seen their prices only go up. On forums i also see people very agressively trashing on products. Logitechs deck for example has its QC also coming up at every comment even after several years from its release. Also looking into the competition I was unable to find any announcements by another company developing anything similar. Especially in terms of some kind of haptic feedback. Are you guys waiting for any releases? In what price range are we expecting them?

I actually bought this Velocity HOTASS very cheap, hoping to get back into Space Sims. I think I have used every major brand out there before, including TM, Saitek, Logitech, Virpil and VKB. The most daunting thing for me was always, setting the HOTAS up in SC or ED. Unfortunately, no Sim dev cares about Turtlebeach, so there is no device support and I have to do all assignments manually. I have that thing for 2months now and still did not feel the mood to use it..haha. Something about it just doesnt sit right. I have also noticed that it has more physical buttons than you can assign. I mean you can click them, but they do not show up in Windows or Flight Hangar. Weird… also, the B1 button on the stick keeps falling off.

got x52 pro for 100 euros a few weeks ago almost new, works great, but I want to add weight there and if possible decrease the tension near edges of a gimbal. Bought some counterweights used to balance car wheels, will try to stick them into the base/throttle XD VKB is practically unavailable in Europe, they offer 'air delivery' which results in smth like 250 euros only for a stick, crazy

excellent review

i love your videos

Hi Mysh! I remember you made a video about bombing guide i requested in War Thunder, since then.. i give it a try to play in Air SB which the gamemode i prefer over RB (i suck) now, maybe u can make a video about how to Air SB (Objective to do, Mouse Keyboard Settings suggestion, How to not how to do, Tips etc.) can you?

he called one of the toggle switches a flap leaver, wrong, he said theres another throttle on the throttle, wrong that is the flap leaver, dont trust reviews that get simple things wrong, in other words, this guy has no idea what hes saying

Just got this first try only the right throttle works when split to to throttles when both connected none of the throttles work if any one could help wood be good but yer

Oh. This could have been good. Ah well 🤷

Ich habe es schon unter dem Community Post vorhergesagt

$699AUD in Australia...

You seem to be the only one not impressed so I guess I will have to take your comments with a grain of salt. I will agree its too expensive.

You’re comparing a console flight stick to a PC flight stick. Console players always pay a premium

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This is not good advice at all. Telling people to just throw thousands at a HOTAS system is insane. You obviously don't understand WHO this is for. The all-in-one approach of this system is very good for the price. A beginner isn't going to buy over-priced sticks and mounts for their first entry into sim flying.

It’s definitely worth taking the time to do in depth research and investing a bit more in these kind of peripherals. I got a pair of t16000m sticks a year or so ago and more recently the throttle and already have decided to spend the money to invest in the vkb gladiator premium for the right hand and Omni throttle for the left hand. The ball and cup gimbal in the thrustmaster worked fine for games like construction simulator but when using it to fly the center spring throws off fine control (though I did do the spring mod to the right stick). In the end I regretted not just saving up a little more and getting better gimbals from the start. This turtle beach flight deck seems like it’s the worst of all options going by reviews I’ve seen. $400 is expensive for such cheap construction, you’re paying for lights and fancy options (which don’t seem to work well) and sacrificing the most important part which is the gimbal. It’s a shame because I really like some of the design choices they made for this HOTAS. I love the indicators for the throttle positions, maybe not that important but it’s a neat touch in my opinion. If I do get another throttle it will probably the vkb stecs or something similar but I’ve decided it’s better to save and go for a better device for the long run instead of taking chances on the cheaper options