Saitek X-52 joystick (look even if you hav'nt got it)
 

Has any body got the X-52 joystick, if so can you give me some info on it before i buy.....


http://www.hardwarebolt.hu/termekek/...p-1-middle.jpg

If you're into military flying, shoot them up type games it's ok.

If you are into flying commercial stuff it's not - ummm realistic enough.

However, if you have the time and the cash and are into military stuff, the best stick and throttle in the world can be found here....

http://www.thrustmaster.com/eng/d_prd.php?p=T65&fam=6

It is made entirely from metal, including the switches!

But I use this one here from Speed Link because I am broke!
http://www.gc-plus.de/img/large/sl-6631_2.jpg

Yep - got one a year+ ago - excellent.

For LockOn/Falcon/X3 and the like - it's great. It's also pretty good for an airbus ;)

It's completely configurable - you can set up profiles which allow up to assign keystrokes to any of the switches/buttons/hats/axis, and it has 3 modes, each of which can be "Shifted" for additional configurations - so given it's got about 30 buttons, you can assign around 180 commands to it.

It also has a clock and stopwatch built into the throttle unit, shows you what any particular key is assigned to, and you can load profiles into the stick on the fly (you navigate directories and profile files using that display also).

Precision is excellent, and it's very comfortable and well built. Never had a problem with mine at all.

I flew FS with it for a year plus. Obviously not as realistic but it doesn't make a lot of odds to be honest.

I've subsequently bought a yoke and rudder pedals,and they're not the leap forward I was expecting. The trim controls on the yoke are inadequate and the pedals are far too sensitive, you've got to whack the deadzone way way up. Compared with the real thing, they're the same shape but no great jump up over the X52 (which is also far more configurable).

All in all, two thumbs way way up.

219 quid for a joystick!
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Hello,

Geez..I have one!!..and I have only this to tell ....SABENA..!!:uhoh:
Such A Bad Experience Never Again ..... :mad:
He take dust on the shelfs....
If you go for it...think about spend the same money for update it with customs parallel market spare parts!!

The X52 is a exellent hotas..use it from his release...2 or 3 hours by day...in WW2 flightsims props....and still like new....

Regards.

Yeah, exactly - at about £80 quid, the X-52 has more availiable buttons, the LCD screen, throttle unit, and fantastic programming software.

A few people I know have the thrustmaster - it's nothing special.

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They use the same metal that dinky put in their cars, only a lower grade................ you could spent that again just getting a decent stick out of it.... Cannot comment on the X52 as have its predecesor the X45.... 4 years old and still going strong.....

Cougar is being used on the desk as a dust collection device, having been unplugged shortly after buying it...

Nah, that's peanuts. Look at my Heli set-up :}
http://www.rcsimulations.com/copyprice.htm
And yes, I am totally barking :ok:

im obviously living in a different world, than other peeps.
ive bought cars for less than those prices.

one of those heli control systems, is about the same price as a ppl package in florida!
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