On the negative side, it's pretty damn expensive, and it's lacking vibration function, which would really put the experience over the edge

Although it appears to be well-made physically, the lack of programmabilty makes it next to useless, and certainly not worthy of the HOTAS label

I also have my old sturdy MS FF2 , but the puny throttle control, and lack of buttons overrides the coolness of force feedback

You'll note a few people have mentioned the lack of buttons being a problem

It does, however, suffer from a severe lack of buttons, sliders, and hat switches

Right now, games seem to support the lack of the second switch by having the user press and hold the triangle button while operating the switch to change the behavior

The cheap feel and lack of buttons on the stick are a deal breaker.

The only problems I have with this stick is its lack of buttons which I had grown accustom too with the Saitek X52... however if you cant use your

my first one, so I have nothing to compare, but works great with Elite and MS flight Sim - as a

The throttle is smooth and solid with plenty of buttons to use which are located perfectly for index finger and thumb control, it also has a center zone that clicks in at zero throttle which I love as it keeps me from sliding into reverse in the heat of things

not annoyingly so and works just as good as

I really hate when sticks already come a little loose as they just worsen over time

I use the controller with the FS as-well-as with ATS games and for me, it's simply works great and at what I feel at a very fair price.