
Now there’s a huge number of possibilities for even greater interaction between your controller and the simulation. Using the SDK, you can also program the LEDs to react to conditions in your game such as flashing red during a stall or changing colour when pressed. See what’s been created already on our forum.Ĭhose between night-friendly red, green or amber illumination for the different LED buttons on the controller. Shipping with support for Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X, there’s also a Software Development Kit (SDK) included which allows budding programmers to create interactions with their own favourite games. Now you can display important in-game information such as the Radio Stack and interact with your games directly. The MFD screen, first introduced on the X52 Flight Controller, is now interactive. Suction cup for the joystick and throttle bases.The most fully integrated Stick and throttle flight controller: built to meet the demands of the best virtual pilots in the world! In my opinion there is no difference with the X52 Pro except for the full black dress, the Chinese button/hat design and the slanted screen on the throttle base. I have a few years of experience with the X52 Pro and I picked up a "normal" X52 after a "mechanical breakage" of the Z-axis on my X52 Pro (I abused it in dogfighting too, poor guy).

Personally, I prefer the X52 to the hotas T1600 combo mainly for the number of buttons on the joystick grip. The throttle could have been a bit more extensive, it has no buttons on the base.

The X52's joystick is full of buttons on the grip in addition to the 6 buttons on the base. Its competitor, the T1600, is less expensive but suffers from design problems. Personally I will never recommend the T16000 hotas combo again.įor those who wish to acquire a hotas, it remains a good solution at a lower cost. The X52 is not the best on the market, but it is certainly not the worst.
