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Holy Cow! The TiR 5 truly is an amazing piece of flight sim hardware. I just got mine the mail yesterday, unwrapped it and plugged it in.
I was flying around the Albatros in one of the single missions and the next thing I knew it was 1am! Playing and flying with TiR opens up a whole other dimension to an already stellar flight model. The sense of flight in RoF was always the best I have experienced in PC gaming but now it is really off the charts!
It does take some setting up and getting use to. Until I learned to relax with this new input system it was giving me a kind of pain in my neck. Trying to control the fluid viewing exclusively with my head put some tension in my neck muscles. But then I learned to relax with it and get use to using not only my neck but my whole body and things really started to fall in place. Not only turning and twisting your neck but actually leaning your body forward, backward, and side to side will mimic corresponding movements in game.
The only time TiR actually is working is while your are flying in game, in first person view, sitting in the cockpit. Once you hit outside view the game controls like it always did. So if you want to take a break from the TiR you can. It doesn't work during cut scenes or in the menus, just when you're in game.
Overall I would say the TiR is the most significant piece of hardware to come along for flight sims since the joystick. If you can afford the outlay it really is "the only way to fly."
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