“The past is the past. We’re here to talk about the future”.
Today, Nicki Repenning presented his new company, and vision for the future of his peripherals for PC, and XBox at the FSWeekend 2025 at Lelystad, NL.
The products are still in development, and may take a while to get to the production phase. Still I wanted to share what I learned today, because to my view a person with Nicky’s track record deserves a fresh start.
I do like the swappable front panels and buttons, that’s pretty cool!
From the original images though it doesn’t look like it has the mounting options on the top like the HC products do, which may be a bit of a deterrent as allot of us mount touch screens, radios, etc.. to the top utilizing those holes.
Any word on pricing for all the modular front panels? Wonder if you can specify one that comes with it and then order more if desired, or if all of them come with the same default panel and then you have to buy specific ones if you want them.
Ah man flight sim expo stage videos are always so cringe 100% of the time. Compelling products on the road map from both of these entities. I’ve built out my Bravo with enough third party stuff to where I’m reluctant to replace it with something new, but nothing’s gotten me to consider it like the new Meridian GMT unit shown today.
Kinda wild to see Nikki on stage after Honeycomb went earlier, same conference, same day, I dunno that just tickled the flight sim drama geek in me
All the “Alphas” are staring to look the same now, between companies, which is funny. Nikki’s just all-in on the emergency brake lever. Hell yeah.
And I feel like both companies debuted a “Sierra” but one’s an old Honeycomb yoke and the Meridian one is something different? I don’t wanna muddy the thread with comparisons to Honeycomb of old but the confusion in the marketplace is hard to ignore with this whole thing but I’m overall excited by all the new stuff, wish em both luck.
Honeycomb’s Sierra is a vernier-style TPM throttle quadrant, Meridian’s Sierra is their yoke system. Shouldn’t be confusing for consumers in the slightest, and I definitely don’t smell (more) litigation in the future.
Seeing Honeycomb and Meridian in the same conference with a product with exactly the same name (Sierra) and completely different spec crossed the line from weird to funny.
I finally got the hidden topic of this FSweekend: “promises” featuring Honeycomb, Meridian, FSS, X-Crafts and Mathjis Kock!
Honeycomb and ex partner Nikki Repenning have both announced new products.
Repenning’s new company is MeridianGMT and has a website illustrating their products.
Honeycomb has new peripherals also.
Interesting days
