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Thrustmaster Unveils New AVA, Modular and Scalable Base for Flight Simulation Joysticks

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Thrustmaster is thrilled to unveil its new modular and scalable base for flight simulation joysticks. AVA (Advanced Versatile Aviation) has been carefully designed to perfectly meet your needs and preferences, offering you a multitude of tailor-made configurations that are great for all types of aviation. Create your ideal configuration from the many adjustment possibilities offered by the AVA base's various interchangeable elements: the axis curve, the resistance, the travel and the damping. AVA's design was specially created for quick modification of all its elements, allowing for customization between flights, and on-the-fly adjustments.

In addition, a real ecosystem is taking shape around the AVA base - with the introduction of a metal plate designed for desktop use, an offset adapter that lets you adjust the position of the grip to 15° or 30° in the joystick's central position, as well as the announcement of future add-ons and accessories. You'll also want to discover the comprehensive bundle featuring the AVA base, metal plate and offset adapter, which includes Thrustmaster's world-famous F/A-18C Hornet grip. Excellent for military, civil, space or helicopter piloting, the AVA base will adapt to your requirements and transport you into a world of simulation that's more realistic than ever before.



TAKING THE WARTHOG TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Discover the AVA base - a revolutionary leap forward for owners of the iconic HOTAS Warthog. Take a step up from the fixed configuration of the HOTAS magnetic base, to an infinity of settings for the joystick's axes with the new modular AVA base. Carefully designed to meet your needs and preferences, AVA allows for a wide range of customization options.

A WORLD OF FLIGHT CONFIGURATIONS
Thanks to its all-metal mechanism, you can easily modify the four functional elements of your flight simulation joysticks: the axis curve, via two sets of cams; the resistance, via three sets of springs; the travel, via three different deflection mask sizes; and the damping, via a damper.

The AVA base's design has been created to make it quicker and easier to modify the settings of the internal elements. Make the final adjustments without disassembling the base, thanks to "on-the-fly" accessibility allowing you to adjust the stick's resistance.

VERSATILITY IN THE SKIES
The AVA base's versatility makes it compatible with all types of aviation, offering a limitless variety of configurations to suit all profiles. Whether you're a fighter aircraft pilot looking for firm joystick tensioning, an airliner captain, an intergalactic fleet admiral or a helicopter pilot maneuvering with subtlety and precision, AVA will meet all of your requirements.

SUPERIOR PILOTING PERFORMANCE
Enjoy optimal precision and center point behavior thanks to the combination of two cutting-edge technologies. First off, by way of integration of two AXY (Accurate X&Y) sensors, allowing for precise and independent adjustment of the center point, progressiveness and resistance.

Secondly, the AVA base incorporates proprietary H.E.A.R.T magnetic technology, ensuring surgical precision (16-bit resolution, with 65,635 values) in all your flights.

THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT SIMULATION
Explore the range of possible configurations of the scalable AVA base, thanks to its vast ecosystem of current and future accessories (additional grips, extensions, cams, springs, dampers, cyclical brake…).

THE AVA F/A-18 SUPER HORNET BUNDLE
Take to the skies right away with the AVA F/A-18 Super Hornet bundle. If you don't already own any Thrustmaster grips, this bundle is a great way to get your hands on the entire AVA ecosystem currently available.

The AVA F/A-18 Super Hornet version includes the AVA base, along with a metal support plate for desktop use, an offset adapter that lets you adjust the position of the grip to 15° or 30°, and an accurate 1:1-scale replica of the F/A-18C Hornet flight stick featuring a panel of 19 action buttons and developed under official Boeing license.

The metal plate and the offset adapter are also available for sale separately.

Commercial information
The AVA base is available at a suggested retail price of £249,99 / $299.99 / €279.99 in the following regions: Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America.

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Only how many years late to the party? Better late than never, I guess.

USB-C is a nice touch and $300 is surprisingly tame for TM. I guess everybody else in the market finally forced their hand.
 
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Yep and another $500 to make it into a stick.
 
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This will sell well, despite coming late and is not cheap.

Thrustmaster is much larger company than the likes of Virpil, VKB, Winwing, they can sell on Amazon and have actual stock in local shops, their competitors have ocasionally very problematic customer support, linked to the fact that none of those comoanies operate in Western countries... People were willing to use Thrustmaster outdated plastic bases that failed often just because they didn't want to buy Chinese, Belorussian, Russian equipment.
 

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Yep and another $500 to make it into a stick.
Yup, It's not cheap. It's a nice system, they spared little expense on it's construction. Lots of billet and ball bearings. Just looking at this thing, I can see a nice aftermarket blooming around it. Thrustmaster has always stood for quality.

 

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Yup, It's not cheap. It's a nice system, they spared little expense on it's construction. Lots of billet and ball bearings. Just looking at this thing, I can see a nice aftermarket blooming around it. Thrustmaster has always stood for quality.

Well my TM1600 system is still going strong but that was $149 for the Flight stick and Throttle. Before that was the HOTAS for some sweet Darkstar One Action. The thing though is that for me some companies are trying to gentrify the industry, Affluent people are not the only ones into PC.
 
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