#flight simming

Wired: getting enough money to pay off my debts, my friends debts, and buy everyone a place they feel comfortable in

I'm pretty into flight simming and one of my favorite planes is the FlyJSim 727. Now this is, to be clear, a paid DLC by an independent developer team of a whopping 2 people. It was made for X-plane 11, which is an older version of the sim.

Of course, now the sim is on version 12, which changed a large part of the backend and now this plane isn't compatible with the new version.

I lurk in the FlyJSim discord waiting for updates. It's been a few years, and the guy in charge has like, some health problems he's dealing with. And every week, without fail, someone comes in and throws a huge god damn temper tantrum about "why isn't this compatible with XP12!?" and every time they get the dev team's social media rep very patiently that the guy has, you know cancer (or something like that, they haven't shared details)

It's rare it goes beyond that but I have seen people demand money back (for an item that still works for the software they bought it for) and at least once saw someone claim that the guy was faking his illness to...get out of doing a new version of the plane?

I'm looking to get a HOSAS setup for space sims and big stompy robot games. If you play a lot of flight sims and such, do you have any suggestions on entry level flight sticks/HOTAS/HOSAS setups that won't break the bank?

I think a lot about a lot of the Vietnam or middle eastern aces who talk about... the joy of being in an aircraft you fly, instead of one where you're just one in a set of computer inputs, and at the risk of sounding like a hipster- despite the gulf of experience between a sim and reality, I feel like you get that tiniest glimpse of that feeling in an older aircraft.