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VKB Gladiator NXT + thrustmaster FCS (Throttle and pedals)

Thrustmaster 16000 has nice precision, but has this horrible ballspring system which "locks" the stick in center position quite strongly. 
Small corrections (aka, aiming, landing, a2a refueling) are literally painful, because you need to do a lot of them and constantly overcome the "lock in" force.

Gladiator is the cheapest of the top line of joysticks, basically. It has linear spring force without weird center "lock in". It has twist rudder, a lot of hats, and thrust axis lever, so you could use it on it's own without pedals or throttle. Finish is nice, and the base is metal, heavy and stable.
Magnetic readers on all axis too, so no worries about potentiometers going bad, only 120 bucks for the stick.

[spoiler] I basically just upgraded from T16000 to Gladiator and I'm super glad[\spoiler][/spoiler]