Velocity One Flight Stick: For the Casual Flight Simmer, or NOT?

[@MrBlobfish2000]

To be honest, people that make these quality video's deserve MUCH more views and subs. I am guessing that they put hard work into making these video's. Keep up the great work!

[@g-locmedia]

Thanks so much mate. I love flight Sim and have a passion for making videos so it is something I enjoy.

[@DMan-ud6bt]

As a VR user, I wish it had a larger track pad instead of the display on it. I'd be making any stick-specific adjustments in its software before starting up the sim in VR, and I'd get a TON of use out of an integrated trackpad in sim. Blindly grabbing for my mouse is one of two gripes I have with my current setup.

[@g-locmedia]

I can appreciate that. Thanks for sharing.

[@KenMac-ui2vb]

Hire this man.

[@mcul3474]

This review was perfect. Ordered it based on your thoughts. Seems to be right up my alley.

[@g-locmedia]

Glad it was helpful

[@Pretender_Gamer]

And? Do u like it ? Im thinking to get this one as well

[@117johnpar]

The spring modification is an absolute must. So much more minor precision at center, and it doesnt pull the base around (as much). I cut mine literally in half. Put the flat end facing up and the bare point facing down toward the plate. Still holds dead center, but its so incredibly easy to make minor inputs. If you dont like snipping a spring, you could just buy a shorter, or softer spring of equivalent diameter.

[@g-locmedia]

Thanks for sharing. Great advice/input for anyone that owns one of these.

[@dan6131]

Epic stick, looks better than my warthog. Nice to see you flying left handed as most civil aircraft are intended to be flown. 👍✅

[@g-locmedia]

Not the same build quality as the warthog but it’s a great entry level stick

[@777Thibs]

"Without annihilating their bank account..." *looks at his Virpil collection* I can quit any time I want to...

[@g-locmedia]

I think this review is more geared towards those just getting in to simulation. At this stage people can be put off by the vast array of flight sim products and the expense. This review highlights that all you need to start is a stick like this.

[@vincentvandersluijs2247]

Great vid, I just bought MSFS20 last week on XBOX, so I am a newbie. Today I bought this stick just to get into the flying, cant wait. If the base is to light, I will add stick-on wheel balance weight inside the casing. Its a cheap and effective way of adding invisible weight.

[@g-locmedia]

Congrats on getting into flight Sim. It's a slippery slope lol.

[@alanward9521]

I would highly recommend this for flying any GA style aircraft which natively would use a stick. The central detent from my actual flying experience feels good as most of the time you are only moving the stick a few degrees in each direction. Works well for gliders too. This would be a brilliant option as a first flight controller as it covers everything. A joystick mount is a must to use the stick but other than that, it's very good.

[@g-locmedia]

Thanks for the insight and for sharing. Always great for people to see opinions from others.

[@jatin3355]

personally id recommend the VKB gladiator for this price range

[@g-locmedia]

How long have you had the VKB?

[@MoleUK1]

Yep, went from a T16000 to VKB Gladiator to VKB Gunfighter (using the grip from the Glad), no regrets. The Glad was absurdly good value, but it was also cheaper than the later EVO revision.

[@g-locmedia]

i think the biggest thing for me would be it would be hard to use left and right handed@@MoleUK1

[@MoleUK1]

@@g-locmedia To swap between left/right? Yea. You can get it in the left or right variety though, not sure how much buying a left/right grip to swap in is. Not a bad idea to have two for HOSAS either.

[@g-locmedia]

@@MoleUK1 yea. Hey, thanks for the insight in the VKB. Always great to hear different opinions

[@PlayStationKid3]

Watching as i want to buy some entry level stick but i also want to hold off and just go VKB despite those additional shipping costs 😅

[@mikebal7777]

Will be interesting to contrast this low cost stick with the new $400 HOTAS setup coming out next month

[@g-locmedia]

Yes it certainly would be. I’m hoping to get my hands on a review unit.

[@samirshah5411]

Got it for $50 from FB Marketplace from some guy who never used it, bought this for my 9 yo son for the upcoming MSFS 2024 game for XBox. Can’t wait to see my son’s reaction as his bday gift, also picked up the MSFS 2024 Limited Collector’s Edition game for him.

[@g-locmedia]

Proper bargain mate. Nice

[@bradtyson]

Also good for farm sim, stick controlled vehicles/equipment

[@pmcomputing2459]

I think 2 of these would be great for HOSAS in Star Citizen. The price is reasonable.

[@aljulien1978]

I just got into flight simulation a few days ago (I’m a little late to the party) and this seems like a great beginner stock for me to get comfortable on MSFS in preparation to going over to DCS. Great review

[@g-locmedia]

Thanks. DCS is great fun but also have a look at IL2. Great for warbirds.

[@aljulien1978]

IL2? I’ll look into now

[@doddsfamily6719]

can you make a video of how to connect to war thunder??? ive been having a lot of trouble.

[@abatall]

Saving up for this by doing chores, hopefully I can get better at flying with this too and maybe join vatsim

[@RJiiFin]

Damn it. Now I want a flight stick.

[@g-locmedia]

flight simming can be addictive. Did you get one?

[@RJiiFin]

@@g-locmedia I did actually, got the Velocity One stick. Happy so far, only thing missing is I can't get reversers to engage on airliners although I did bind the button on the throttle axis to "Hold for reversers" or what ever the key binding is called

[@g-locmedia]

@@RJiiFin do you disagree with anything in the video review after having bought and used it?

[@RJiiFin]

@@g-locmedia Not really, you were pretty spot on

[@owenshobbies]

this review is amazing thank you

[@g-locmedia]

Thank you. Glad it helped.

[@HorizonPerson]

Very very usefull and clear, i'll prob buy this

[@g-locmedia]

Thanks for the feedback on the video

[@gagedye2180]

amazon desk mount link doesnt work just a heads up

[@g-locmedia]

Thanks for letting me know mate

[@sfsrocketengineer2492]

The links in the description kept sending me to amazon's home page but not the product

[@g-locmedia]

Thanks for letting me know. I’ll have a look at that. Where are you based?

[@sfsrocketengineer2492]

@@g-locmedia Hong kong

[@JUMPINGDONUT_]

What should i get the tca sidestick or the velcity one. What one feels better to the hand, and is the throttle on the turtle sturdy?

[@g-locmedia]

@@JUMPINGDONUT_ do you mainly fly the airbus?

[@JUMPINGDONUT_]

@@g-locmedia im accually really new to everything im having a dilemma, Xbox controller or a joystick

[@danielmunro-bj6mc]

Have you seen the new turtle beach flight deck?

[@g-locmedia]

I saw an image of it. Looks quite interesting

[@jaromirandel543]

I've heard the centering mechanism is bad. It is exactly opposite of the high-tier stick like Virpil. The linearity is upside-down. Common stick has increasing centering force with increasing deflection and with very low centering force at detent. Turtle Beach has very strong detent and the with increasing deflection the force is reducing.

[@EvilApricot996]

Can you plug the throttle quadrant from the Velocity One yoke into the USB-C port?

[@pecobs]

Is it compatible with Ace Combat 7 on Nintendo Switch with adapter?

[@gaips]

Does it gave a 3.5mm port for headsets?

[@g-locmedia]

Yea you can put a headset in

[@clickbaker1]

Hey mate, that link for the mounting bracket doesn't seem to work for me. Any other info for it?

[@g-locmedia]

seems to have disappeared but this should work amzn.to/3W1MNJg

[@Thunderbird1337]

This stick has 2 big problems. One is the stiffness, which can be fixed (as others said). The other one is the very small movement angle of the stick. And that can't be fixed. Compared to my old Thrustmaster stick, the Velocity One has almost half the movement. This just feels bad if you are used to a good flight stick with a proper movement angle. It simply can't have the same precision if you need only half the stick movement for the same movement in the sim. I tried the Velocity One stick and returned it immediately. It has very nice features, but unfortunately that's all worthless if the stick fails completely in the most important points: Comfort/ feeling and precision. In my opinion a complete misconstruction.

[@g-locmedia]

What was the Thrustmaster stick you had?

[@Thunderbird1337]

@@g-locmedia It's the T.16000M, still using it.

[@lorincnemeth979]

I found that its not really supported by warthunder on pc is it?

[@g-locmedia]

It doest auto configure like MSFS but you can easily configure it on your own and it works well.

[@JonasSUPERJJ]

If i could get one for 50$ used. Is it worth it? I dont even have any flight sim yet but im looking to get into it.

[@g-locmedia]

Yea it is

[@MrHaaspaul]

Xbox simmers don’t have much choice !! Nobody is giving us the controller choices pc users get. If we got better choices some of us would be more than just casual !

[@g-locmedia]

Unfortunately I don't see this changing much. I see X-BOX as a gateway for some simmers that will eventually move to PC for a deeper experience as the sheer volume of peripherals available for PC is astounding. A lot of this is because of x-box licensing issues.

[@djirate052380]

Bro, consoles suck so bad. I've gamed since Caleco Vision/Magnavox era. Pong days! I've had every console except dreamcast. After all these years of being a console gamer on old machines to the newer ones (specifically PS1 through PS5 when PS was released) I realized and got sick of being held back. Yes a PC will cost a bit more always but the fact that you can upgrade as you go through the years makes the cost much more effective. Not only getting a full 100% gaming experience with all the bells and whistles that consoles never have and never will offer. Mod support is off the chain. I just, a little over a month ago, gave my PS5 to my younger brother (28yrs old) and got a PC. I used to own PCs but never for gaming, just programming and graphic design. But this time I went all out and spent way too much money. I will be using the PC for game design/3d rendering and animations so I had to go big or go home but I will also be able to run any game at the best specs possible as well. You don't have to have the best of the best to game though unless your budget affords it I guess. The point is. Save for a relatively decent gaming PC and you'll never go back to consoles lmbo.

[@MrHaaspaul]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@djirate052380Since I don’t know much about PC’s for gaming can you recommend a PC that would be a decent one by name brand and model at a affordable price for just Microsoft Flight Sim…….since I already have an Apple Computer for everyday use ? Thanks a lot.

[@Kj_Gamer2614]

⁠@@djirate052380the real point is that many people cannot afford even a bad PC, while a console can play the same games, at a fraction of the price

[@PushinToxic]

Honestly I feel that but then you gotta understand a lot of people don’t wanna buy stuff like that because it’s almost the price of a console just a bigger market for it in pc I feel like just like the steering wheel just most games that are worth playing with these are not on console like DCS

[@DXTRR_Official]

Good vid ❤

[@g-locmedia]

Appreciate it

[@michaellavertu9614]

how to watch game so close like that xD the tv is too close for my eyes loll

[@g-locmedia]

It actually doesn't bother me at all but everyone's different.

[@gibmeister5854]

As a dcs player I would never recommend this or there future flight deck model… the screens take up too much space it’s not got enough buttons or switches and a STECS and gladiator would be much better

[@g-locmedia]

A bit more on expensive side those two together. Thanks for sharing though. Always great for people to see other opinions

[@The_Real_Indiana_Joe]

I use it with DCS, IL2 BOS and CLoD and MSFS I don't have any problems with it. But I do most prop planes so...

[@Factsfun-kg4xc]

again at that price the Winwing Ursa is a much better stick.

[@g-locmedia]

Trying to get my hands on one have you tried both?

[@Factsfun-kg4xc]

​@@g-locmedia Unfortunately, no. However, the internals of the Ursa are an exact copy of the VKB NXT, making it a no-brainer at the price of $120-almost half the price of the VKB. It's far superior to anything Turtle Beach has to offer. I have preordered a set of Ursas to compare with my VKB and Virpil. I will probably give them away on our Star Citizen ORG Discord afterward.