I thought I read that BF1942 does use the HOTAS.

I am suprised by the number of people I have talked to that did not know you have to map the joystick in the control options of the game to use it. A number of people were thinking that games that use the joystick just do so by default.

If you have not done it go into the options->controls->select the Air tab and start maping the joystick.

I could be wrong and the Hotas just does not work with it but I thought I read posts on other boards that people were using it.