The best joystick are by far the CH products in my opinion but they come expensive as you need to buy throttle , rudder and stick separately , personally , i have an old Microsoft Force feedback 2 , very precise , good strength of the mecanisms insides (tough and rigid unlike Saitek X52 for instance which feels like your stick is moving into yoghurt , very loose and weak ) , i got it since 2002 and it still work perfectly , it's really a shame Microsoft stopped producing them , they were by far the best quality/price compromise (very good quality for reasonable price ) , maybe too much quality as it costed microsoft too much money , that's really a pity cause now the choice is very limited in term of quality products . Then there is the cougar stick etc.. but for IL-2 i don't think you need such expensive stick , and moreover a friend of mine had to replace some spare parts of his cougar after just 1 year of intensive use , so i'm kind of sceptical towards it