Console flight simulation has spent years asking pilots to fly serious aircraft on a gamepad. The VelocityOne H.O.T.A.S. is the answer to that. It is officially licensed for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and it pairs the VelocityOne Flightstick II with the VelocityOne Dual Throttle so both hands land on real controls the moment you sit down.

The two units carry 73 programmable inputs and 15 axes between them. The main stick axes use next-generation 16-bit Hall-effect sensors resolving over 65,000 input counts each, and the throttle levers use 10-bit Hall-effect sensing. Because Hall-effect sensing is non-contact, the centring and calibration you get out of the box are the centring and calibration you still have after a few hundred hours.

On Xbox the throttle connects through the stick as a pass-through, so the whole system presents to the console as one licensed device and works without a driver install. It also runs on Windows 10 and 11, which means the same hardware follows you if you build a PC rig later. The VelocityOne Universal Sim Mount and the VelocityOne Rudder Pedals extend it from there.