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Rated 13/06/2024, variant Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
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I bought a joystick for Elite Dangerous and I don' t regret it. Great feeling to play. The joystick is very pleasant and beautifully crafted. It holds on a wooden table with a structure and without suction cups with its own weight. For me the pros outweigh the cons. I recommend it for every fan of any kind of flying.
Design
Processing
Can be attached via suction cups or without them
Entertainment
Ability to change button colors
Option to tighten the throttle to have more/less resistance
The main joystick has more play before the spring resists. So the joystick moves to each side ~1 cm.
The necessity of setting a deadzone for almost every " lever" that has some range of motion. Otherwise your plane will keep going down, etc.
I' ve had it for about a quarter of a year and I still haven' t figured out how to use the display except for the time, date and timer.
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Jiří, Most
Rated 23/01/2024, variant Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
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Apart from negatives 2, 3, 4 and 5, the other things are rather trivial. But overall, I can recommend the joystick. Suitable for both realistic and space flight simulators. But also for Arma 3, although the setup is a bit tedious in that game. And although the game can recognise this joystick. So gas is not automatically charged, shooting and bombing from the plane is completely stupidly charged. I still want to try this joystick in old classics like F-22 Lighting 3, Comanche Gold and Comanche 4.
Enough buttons
Despite the negative that the buttons do not change colour when switched on and off so the vast majority of buttons can be set with different colours, I miss the blue. But there is a choice of Red, Green and Amber(some shade of yellow).
I use all the buttons for both DCS World and Arma 3, and I don't miss the extra buttons.
A secured button under the cap that can function to either drop (fuel tanks or armament). Or on the focus of the target. This button is the only one that changes colour, the locked one is green and the unlocked one is red, personally I would prefer it the other way around.
On the control lever there is a possibility to quickly change the setting mode via a round metal button on the side of the lever. It's useful when you have a setting for fighters on Mode 1 and a setting for helicopters on Mode 2, for example. The settings can then be changed and created in Logitech's software.
It is possible to set up 3 basic modes for setup. And then three more when you press the "Thumb" button, then you can add three more profiles in Logitech's program.
You can't tell from the picture how big the throttle is, but in reality you rest your whole palm on it, so your wrist doesn't hurt and all the buttons are within reach of your thumb and forefinger. Same on the control stick.
If you don't have big hands, there is an option on the control lever to mechanically loosen the height of the "Little Finger" button.
All it takes is one USB port.
Compared to the Thrustmaster T.16000M, this joystick is solid at first glance.
Apart from negatives 2, 3, 4 and 5, the other things are rather trivial. But overall, I can recommend the joystick. Suitable for both realistic and space flight simulators.
Not all lights can be changed to different colours, and there is no option to set a button to glow a different colour when you turn something on in the game and a different colour when you turn it off.
The display is difficult to program to display the necessary information from the game, external scripts are needed.
Suction cups do not stick to the wooden table, a smooth rubber wide pad is needed across the table.
I don't recommend turning with the control stick as it has a small angle for DCS World planes, I recommend adding pedals.
It is possible to mechanically adjust the stiffness of the throttle lever, but it is no longer possible to adjust the stiffness of the control lever.
What freezes is the oversensitive mouse on the throttle, it's the little hat next to the Clutch button. It may suit some people. But this is just my personal feeling, I don't like this button on this joystick: D
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Miroslav, Votice
Rated 02/06/2023, variant Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
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A must for flight and space simulators. The joystick is very high quality and the price makes sense. Unfortunately, due to software and driver issues, I will not give full stars.
well crafted joystick
does not slip on the surface
large number of buttons
drivers and software
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Radim, Brno
Rated 22/10/2022, variant Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
I bought this joystick sometime around 2004. Until 2009 I flew it at least once every week, some months almost every day, in my favorite IL-2 Sturmovik simulator. My friends and I would race through the sky and shoot down enemies, or even just fly long distances between Japan and Australia. unforgettable experiences! Today I discovered this joystick in the back of my desk after more than a decade of disuse. It was completely dusty and the once shiny materials were covered in an unidentifiable sticky substance. I have found that this is how this material reacts to the long-term presence of dust. I took WD-40, a Swedish cloth and soon there was no sign of the sticky substance. Like new again! And the fact that this joystick still has active support for Saitek after all these years just shows what a bargain it is, even if it may seem expensive to some.
Really cool joystick. Even after so many years, it is still as good as new!
Quality materials
Battery life
Accuracy, precision
The price?
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Šimon, Kladno
Rated 22/12/2021, variant Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
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Very good for the price, great for messing around in DCSk
Metal/plastic
Nice to hold
Accurate
Many buttons
Rather not a negative, but my opinion that the mini display is unnecessary there
Otherwise, I have nothing against it.
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Lukáš, Liberec 6
Rated 22/10/2018, variant Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
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many functions
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Miroslav, Bratislava
Rated 04/10/2018, variant Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
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Workmanship, material, appearance.
Accuracy.
Mouse (trackpoint) on r. lever.
Possibility to change the colour and intensity of the backlighting of the buttons.
The included sw is sufficient, but could be improved.
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Dominik, Praha 4
Rated 23/04/2018, variant Saitek X52 Pro Flight Control System
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Lots of buttons
Lots of axes
Display with adjustable clock, stopwatch
The display can also be used to set, for example, autopilot, NAV 1 and 2, COMM 1 and 2, etc. in P3D or FSX
Joyistick is suitable for both transport flight simulators and especially for combat ones.
Setting the backlight of the RGY buttons (red, green, yellow) and adjusting the intensity of the display
2 springs that hold the joystick in a straight position
Unfortunately I received a Joystick that had 2 defects, a non-functioning T5 button and a fading backlight on the buttons and display that start to flicker when turning one of the potentiometers below the display. I've returned the joystick for repair, so I'm waiting to see what happens. I recommend always checking in the control panels that all buttons and axes are working; )
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