About 3 weeks before the North American release of the Thrustmaster Cougar, I was sitting behind my desk performing what had become a ritualistic cleaning of my F-22 Pro, and TQS. It immidiately occured to me, pending the arrival of my new Cougar, that it sure would be nice to never have to dust my stick again. I had spent a lot of money on a good HOTAS, so a few dollars didn't seem like much to protect it for life. Thus the idea was born to design a HOTAS Cover. Originally it had only been my intent to make a dozen or so and give them to my close friends. I shared the idea with a few pals on ICQ. It met with tremendous enthusiasm and they encouraged me to take it a little further and sell them. I wasn't exactly excited at the prospects of taking on a project of such proportions as I don't get much flying time as it is being occupied with a fulltime job and two young sons. My attitude quickly changed as I witnessed the prototypes evolve into what they are today.

After countless hours, lots of late nights, several prototypes, many trips around town to gather up supplies, including a new sewing machine for my wife, I'm eager to show you all my hand made HOTAS Cover!

Please buy a set to help me recoupe the cost of the sewing machine ;-)

                                                                                               -Ryan "Kosmo" Cowley
                                                                                              

HOTAS Covers have been a tremendous hit. Just take a look at some of the buzz.

Follow this LINK to the forums at Frugal's World where HOTAS Covers were first introduced.

"One see's very well that the woman of Kosmo can use a sewing machine." -Red Dog
Read more of Red Dog's review HERE (French)

Thanks to Terrapin for featuring our covers on his website www.f4freeware.net and for creating the humerous banner below.