This was my experience but it may vary depending on the testing center. I took my TBAS last month and the joystick at the testing center looked like it came straight out of a f16….It was far better than I expected in terms of the actual quality of the joystick. However, I didn’t feel the quality of the joystick helped at all because of how the TBAS itself just plays. For me, the movements of the stick didn’t correlate or sync well to how the movements displayed on the screen. It’s an old program and it plays like one. It’s my opinion but I found the TBAS Test Prep program to be super helpful. Using that program along with a cheap joystick bought from amazon I’m confident would serve anyone well as it did for me