In all honesty, mate, there are not many top tier PvP Hotas users.. I can think of one... Commander Toruide.... but he also used KB and Mouse before going back to Hotas just for fun. The relative mouse makes FA off so much easier than Hotas FA off that it's basically criminal. Believe me I tried for four months to improve my rail aim in Hotas FA off. I switched from a full Thrustmaster 16000 setup to 16000 FCS throttle and mouse because as much as I tried, I could not use rails effectively....and rails are necessary to counter SCBs. Using relative mouse and rails is trivial compared to joystick. It may seem overwhelming to go to mouse and throttle, but after two weeks now I am much more comfortable. Use a mouse with a zillion buttons. Yaw is x axis, Pitch is y axis. Personally I put roll on mouse left and mouse right with fire, boost and pips on 12 side buttons. My throttle settings are nearly the same as they were when I was using a joystick. It's also really easy to make pip distributions with Auto Hotkey. I have 12 different buttons devoted to pip management and they are all on the throttle and mouse. Now I just have to learn to switch between them..... lol
Whatever you decide, good luck to you.
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Thank you for your detailed reply , very much appreciated. I have a spare gaming mouse lying about , I will give it a serious try over the next few days. I already carry macros that manage pips via a separate voice attack profile and have assigned key presses, I tend to only use it when I’m in VR ..I can now see why I’m having such accuracy issues . As a note I use the same Thrustmaster system as you , but played K+M for the first 6 months .
I’ve been using fixed rails and plasmas for about a year, I’m ok with FA on, but rarely land them when FA off, when dog fighting . More Practice sessions needed for sure.
Fly safe.
Whilst I’m here , my original post was moderated and I received a warning

and penalty points for using a two letter acronym, so to the anonymous moderator my apologies, but please explain what the word you changed my acronym to actually means

..does it mean the same as my acronym?