SPEEDLINK PHANTOM HAWK Flightstick with Hand Rest for Right-handed Use, Black

I know that everybody complains about its drifting-center problem, and they are right: it happens all the time. But if you don't install the driver you can calibrate it with Windows, and after that works fine. I've used it for two months and every time I calibrate it before playing and works fine. I pay like $13 for it, so for the price I don't care about calibrating it every time. I use it for Falcon BMS and other sims and works fine with all of them.Buy it if the price is $19 or less. If the price goes to $60 again don't do it! Buy something from Thrustmaster instead.

A nice cheaper flightstick. There are a couple issues, like two of the buttons being mapped to the same key, but all in all it exceeded my expectations.

Great for a shift knob, maybe good for gaming.

Back in the day 40 dollars got you a pretty solid joystick. But the joystick market has gone down.This caught my attention because of the two toggle hats and the pinky key which my T16000m lacks. Those features are very convenient for DCS.I was skeptical of what I read but I took a chance. Plugged right in with out the software, DCS and Arma 3 recognize the joystick and works just fine.BUTThe cons: The placement of the hats is little awkward but do-able.My biggest issue is the centering. (which people have complained about) The rudder twist tends to stick to the left and the man X-Y axis don't center perfectly.I'm willing to increase the dead zones higher because it offers more functionality then my T16000.

Ordered from Neophron as new but when I got it I could clearly tell it was used. The box looked like it was thrown around after sitting on a shelf for 7 years and the plastic on the stick was so old it was Sticky. Don't be fooled by the high average rating, for some reason some people keep giving this flight stick a high review when they're using it as gear shifters for their cars.

The media could not be loaded. I wanted to like this flightstick so badly - it is one of the few that isn't north of $100 with two directional switches. It also has some soft touch finishes and a cool LED lighting around the 8 way HAT and the weapon release buttons on the top. The suction cups are also a nice plus for me - they stuck very securely to a lap desk I was using. The button feel is also pretty good, twist rudder is also nice for those of us who just like a casual gaming experience...But..the deadzones on this thing, at least the copy I had, are so bad it's unusable. At least a full 1/3 of the stick's range of motion "locks" on the X and Y axis when rotating the stick through it's outer radius, making it impossible to control your craft in any kind of reliable way. It ends up being a mess of just straight up/down or straight to the sides with almost no diagonals. Trying a more subtle angle of rotation makes the problem even worse. See the video on this review for an idea of how much it sticks to the X/Y axis, at the start it is all the way to the edge of its range of motion being smoothly rotated, and then about 1/2 way where it really becomes a total mess.As one other review also mentions, there are actually 13 buttons on this controller, but for some odd reason the pinky button and one of the buttons on the base are both mapped to button 2.I am so sad this flight stick didn't work out - right now the market is really thin on mid priced sticks with decent features and a good button layout, and this stick has those....but the sensors are so bad and the deadzones so huge that this stick is sadly completely unusable as a flight controller. I am hopeful that the unit I got is just defective (I have already started a return), but I won't be giving it another try.

Wasn't for me. Felt like a solid product but was not what I expected.

Was obsolete when bought. Arrived as a repack. Drivers for win10 do not work. Even downloading from the company site. The manufacturer has shut their american site and i had to use their site for Germany