I play on PC, and there is no support for HOTAS flight sticks. I was able to get it working with a program that takes joystick inputs and maps them to keyboard or mouse movements, but it didn’t feel very good and it wasn’t fun.
Really do hope that HG implements support for it, though! With VR coming and being able to see ship controls that look just like a HOTAS, I’m hopeful they’ll add it…