Joined on 12/16/01
Cheap construction
Pros: Hey, they're pedals! Time to yaw.
Cons: Cheap construction- Saitek has dosedived in quality since Madcatz took over. The toe brakes have really cheap, weak springs- I'm lucky to have about 60% of the axis working after deadzoning. Plus the toe brakes activate about 20% when using the rudder, regardless of what you're doing. The software is miserable. Poor UX, poor UI, sloppy programming capabilities, consistent crashes when editing shiftstate.
Overall Review: In general they work- just be prepared for sloppy axis and having to tweak deadzones. It's a shame that they can't quite master the very tricky "spring technology".
Extremely short range
Pros: Small form factor, would make an excellent HTPC keyboard
Cons: Doesn't work much beyond 24" from the dongle. Even with the USB receiver mounted on the front of the PC, I have to stand right next to it for it to work, and even then I still get dropped keys and jittery mouse tracking.
Cheaply made
Pros: I'm not exactly sure there is any.
Cons: Very cheaply made. The thin rubber band that runs around the edge houses the PCB- nothing else. The top and bottom plates are cheap plastic, and actually bow outwards when a drive is installed. It's like a 2.5" enclosure rolly-polly, only it has a lot of my data in it. Returning this one immediately. Amazingly shoddy.
Overall Review: Manual pages were printed out of order as well. Weird.