The Viper Mission is what a lot of people have been waiting for. It arrived and I don’t think that the unit is really up to the price tag. Most of the unit is built solidly out of metal so it has a great feel about it. As others have said it is let down by a plastic landing gear stick that you have to lift (which is good) to make the switch work. It just doesn’t feel right. The other switches are very good and can become very useful, not just flying sims but other sims such as space sims. The rotary encoder switch with push button for example. With the game controller it is easy to see each button and axis working. Unfortunately the unit I had showed that the VB1 axis (slider) was not working correctly so this unit was returned. Here the advice is try all of the switches, axis and buttons using the game controller and make sure they all work correctly. Having said this, all the LEDs are programmable either by TARGET GUI or TARGET Script which you download. I prefer the script as a C programmer. With this I believe no other throttle or joystick manufacturer gives you so much control over all of the switches, buttons or axis. This is a big YES for Thrustmaster. TARGET GUI and TARGET Script especially is the things that keep me with Thrustmaster. This is because you can get those LEDs to flash when you want, You can get the switches and buttons to Double up the jobs they do. You can get the coloured LEDs to shine (The wheel LEDs have Off, green, red, yellow, blue, cyan, magenta and white colours). Most have green, red or off. So overall the unit is very good, in fact excellent quality except for the one landing gear switch as mentioned. Its just one switch! The price I think is a bit high for one part of the sim because you will still need a joystick. As has been said the Thrustmaster Warthog throttle and Joystick is a good deal which is what I use at the moment but the viper mission is a very good implication of the f16 throttle and I think better than the competition.