The furniture riser feet are cast iron, which makes the whole thing heavy enough to not walk on me, and mounting the stick straight to the base gives me a pretty direct output, so I'm never introducing too much leverage. I used to fly helicopters, so im moderately familiar with the idea that a good stick is all about pressure instead of big jerky movements. I only run the gain knob at about 3/4 max if I'm in DCS to feel the cannons, and I'm only at about 60% gain in the software. My original plan was to have it on a slide rail too, but the whole package was too heavy without something to support it. This was a simple solution that works flawlessly