Saitek X52 Pro Flight System Controller (Renewed)

Its absolutely brilliant. Works very well on star citizen havent tested on anything else yet but it has a ton of functions and if you download the drivers and such from Logitech sight you can set up endless profiles and macro keys and all that good stuff. You can also customize the lights and that can be extreamly helpful for some beginers to flight sims and flight sticks, for example you can easily get flustered in a dog fight a d hitting the wrong key could mean winning or losing if you collor code your keys though you can avoid that much better. Like green for defense like flares and strafes and red for attack like missiles drone launching and such and blue for scans and such. As far as setting up it can be a bit overwhelming for beginers it took me a couple hours playing around with it to hit that "oh so sweet" spot for me and i went from helpless fodder to instrument of death and destruction just like that lol.Only down sides id say is1. The plug in type. It is one plug in for both stick and throttle so it goes like this. Stick plug into throttle than throttle plugs into PC. So you can be a bit limited in that aspect if you're trying to build a flight seat or such. You'd have that cord always there infront of you so youd need to extend it or unplug it to stand up. This shouldent be an issue for 99% of buys though unless youre that one try way to hard guy building an f-16 cockpit in his basment lol.2. The sticks base pad could have used a bit more bulk its a tad to light so you can find the stick moving on you when you get over hyped on something lol. I fixed this by fixxing it to my custom built desk. Works beautifully now.3. I seen reviews commenting on the tensions not working on the throttle and it being "sticky" at 85-100% this is not the case though the tensioners do work but it cpuld have used a bit more. And the sticky spot people talking about is supposed to be there. Its like this, when you hit that spot its like a wall. If you set it up so when you hit that part youre at 100% throttle that extra push is used for hitting afterburners or boost. Actually works beautiful.

Bought this to upgrade for flight sims i play. Love the features and controls, however with all the program capabilities of this beast it can be a bit overwhelming at first. I'm not sure why but windows 10 does not allow my to be able to calibrate it. All in all this a fantastic unit and love it.

So, first allow me to say that the x52pro was bought under renewed condition. The packaging was well done and all the cables and accessories were within the box. The shipper certainly did a fine job.However my stick has a horrible sticking problem, making it almost impossible to preform fine adjustments of a lot of flights and landing situations.I never returned it because it was a problem that I thought I could fix myself with some type of plastic safe lubricant. However I was wrong and have given up on the stick.Once again, I don't blame the seller. This is certainly a known issue with the x52 line of Hoyas controllers. I would certainly not suggest getting this hot as. Find something a little better and don't risk the problems