Xbox Aviators bring your aircraft to life | Next Level Racing HF8 Haptic Pad | Now you can feel it!

[@frankforbes8534]

Thanks for this detailed and well thought out installment. I think I will purchase if only to help with immersion over performance for my humble rallying set up on xbox

[@perpetualomega]

Thumbs up for buying it yourself and giving a honest review. I cannot take free product reviews seriously as if you give it a bad review they won't send you anymore products. I hope these videos give you your money back.

[@kennykanada]

I purchased it 2 weeks ago from your last video review on PC! Delivered next day from Amazon. At first I didn’t like it over my tactile transducers. After tweaking and making adjustments, I love it! Now I rarely turn on my transducers as the HF8 does it all, and silently! I was always hesitant turning on my shakers due to noise vibrations shaking my neighbours below etc…lol!

[@SimHangerFS]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Mikinct]

Cool, what adjustments did you make

[@kennykanada]

@@Mikinct Basic adjustments to my liking, in the UI software.

[@theflightsimmerupnorth5172]

I returned it, the effect was too subtle for my liking. Thank you anyways for the review. More power to your channel.

[@SimHangerFS]

Did you try the freeware SimShaker software with it? Awesome.

[@natedogg7376]

So when my wife walks in and I'm flying like a madman I can tell her I'm getting a massage... :) Love your channel Mark!

[@SimHangerFS]

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[@alanpitkin411]

Thanks to you video on how to set it up correctly I love it now it makes flying so much more realistic.

[@capttom144]

thank you for covering it up for Xbox..I might give it a try since it should also work with car racing sims..I wonder what it feels like watching a movie with this thingy.. 😁

[@aureliomarsili3902]

Really really complete review ... thanks !!!

[@19schuey]

Couple of drawbacks for me on this. I have a sim rig for my Series X which I have dual purposed with a Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS for MSFS, and full Fanatec setup for racing. Neither of those peripheral setups have audio jacks which means that I would have to plug into a controller. But when you don't touch the controller, it powers down so you'd lose the HF. Will be upgrading the Honeycomb flight Sigma Tau or Tango Foxtrot HOTAS when available, but so far no info on if they will have audio jacks. I could plug into TV, but if I upgrade the TV which is coming in a few months, no guarantee the new TV will have audio jack either. Other is the price at AUD400. If it was down 50-100, and I could USB connect it to Xbox, then I might consider.

[@mikecoffee100]

bout time X-Box gets some more respect

[@bobdonovan34]

Returned mine. The vibration is more of a distraction than immersion and feels kind of gimmicky and cheap. I also find my chair being tethered to my PC with a wire somewhat annoying. Thanks for the review though.

[@q8386]

Hmm, great vid Mark. I've an S Series, but I may upgrade to a PC once I can afford it. There are so many peripherals coming onto the market, I can't keep up with what is best. Can I assume that this version of the HF8 would also work on a PC? I know you did a vid on using it with a PC, so I guess my question is: if I bought this for use on my Xbox, then I upgraded to a PC, would this still work?

[@capttom144]

afaik yes, you should be able to plug it into the PC via the USB or use it elsewhere via the sound connection..

[@SimHangerFS]

Yes it will work with both. Audio cable with console and usb with PC

[@Posttraumaticgrowth]

Thank you🎉👍😘

[@alanharris2799]

Can’t really see this being a thing I’d purchase, maybe the experience is better while actually using it but struggling to get my head round it TBH and the cost is too high for me to be tempted to try it. The main thing we really need on Xbox is head tracking, that would be a game changer.

[@SimHangerFS]

Head tracking would be awesome. It’ll come…eventually.

[@CaptainKenobi]

Interesting video, thx Marc! Does it have some therapeutic vertue vibrating your muscles!? Joke aside, I feel it would be more fitted to race siming with the vibrations following the revs of the engine / driving over the kerbs, etc?

[@SimHangerFS]

It was principally designed for race, but works great in flightsim in my opinion.

[@CD-kc5op]

Thanks! So in the PC version is it using more than just audio to translate into the haptic feedback?

[@SimHangerFS]

Yes it is a digital interpretation of the output.

[@azahan]

Thanks for your review! Will the ATC's voice trigger vibrations? I'm guessing it would since the haptic feedback is based on overall audio.

[@SimHangerFS]

No it doesn’t, Voice telemetry is not covered.

[@darrenmills-hx7re]

thanks Mark another great video very tempted..... im on series X with Turtle Beach V1 and also have their flight stick.... i have the money to get this but also fancy the pedals, cant afford both right now and slowly building my sim setup , which would you think should be my next purchase ? TB pedals or the HF8 ? ill get both at some point but having £250 available right now what would be the best option........ ?

[@SimHangerFS]

Go for the pedals first, a rudder is essential in my opinion.

[@Mikinct]

Can this be connected to say my higher watt reciever for even more pronounced effects? Yes, you didn't mention the intensity setting used, was it on Max? I was thinking possibly having an "audio splitter"- sending louder audio to this device & lower aidio sent to headphones etc

[@SimHangerFS]

Intensity at 78%.

[@allanarnold3619]

pmdg Have so I hear released the 737 on the xbox console for msfs 2020 your thoughts on either spending money on a new pc or would an xbox series x be just as good as a high end pc

[@grifone_sim_rally]

hi, when using it with rally games are only the vibrations of the car transmitted or also the speech of the co-driver?

[@SimHangerFS]

I don’t know the answer to that

[@edy7220]

Thanks Mark, Do you have a link for downloading Simconnect for PC and msfs 2020? I’m still having setup issues after trying simconnect from the website with 2016 in it. Plus my HF8 app does not look like yours but it’s truncated for some reason. I can only click on the pad to verify it’s working so once I get the right Simconnect file I’m concerned I’ll still have an app issue. Thanks!

[@SimHangerFS]

Make your app full screen. For simconnect check MSFS official forum.

[@pm5970]

I have a problem when i plug in to my monitor jack the vibration is constant but when i plug to my controller only when i crash that vibrate like 2 secs. I dont feel the vibration when plug in to the controller. Im using tca airbus flight stick

[@SimHangerFS]

Sounds like your controller is not transmitting correctly. I had this issue and had to replace it.

[@roryhennessy6509]

For the life of me I cannot get this to work. Plugging into the xbox controller, nothing happens at all. If I actually touch the audio jack it vibrates, but seems to do nothing when plugged in. I tried plugging headphones in, nothing. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have a series X, running via my Samsung TV, and a polk soundbar

[@SimHangerFS]

It might be your controller settings or the actual audio port on the controller. Check this by playing some music with a good variable beat on your TV and plug the HF8 audio jack in. You can do this on a tablet as well. If you get a variable vibration….then it is your controller.

[@roryhennessy6509]

@SimHanger Flight Simulation thank you. No luck. Tried the three female audio parts on the TV. With two of them, it had a low, constant vibration regardless of whether anything was playing or not. With the other one, nothing. Similarly, plugging into the soundbar did nothing. I managed to install the software on my laptop to test on there. I can individually test each motor, but again, nothing when playing any sound. I've also tried it with the PS5 and it does nothing. It gets recognized as a headset, but no sound comes through the TV when it's plugged into the controller. I've emailed support and been ignored, so I wonder if it's just a faulty product.

[@SimHangerFS]

@@roryhennessy6509 sounds faulty to me.

[@SimHangerFS]

@@roryhennessy6509 oh, forgot to mention make sure the light on the controller is flashing (audio mode) and for testing turn the intensity up to amber or red light. Solid light is PC mode only.

[@roryhennessy6509]

@SimHanger Flight Simulation thanks again. Yep, tried all of that.