Saitek Cyborg FLY 9 Wireless Flightstick - REVIEW - Page 4

bobbysocks · #31 05-23-2010, 06:54 AM

the echo seems to be coming from my mic... cant figure it out. that part of life worked well with the AV8R...( except in real crowded rooms...over 8 or 10 ). sean roberts001....messaged me to tell me i was echoing bad...so got to figure that one out. the night before i did 3 or 4 sim dogfights with beavercompany...and there wasnt a problem ( but there was only the 2 of us). maybe my connection?? i have dsl is all i can tell you. ALSO...now i seem to have this "freeze frame" i never had before. the screen freezes for a second....OR the AC dissapear...one minute they are in my sites the next...WAY far away. that might just be co-incidence or server issues....but thought i was skipping a groove there for a minute.
enjoyed playing a couple games with you...although i was screwing with things and couldnt buy a kill. i have good games and bad ones....but thats life. we need to start to set up some good friday/saturday night missions like the PS3 boys are. like do a battle of britian night...bombing of berlin...y29...jets vs 17 night ( strike). you want to work on this with me? we could make some pretty cool games. i will PM you my email address...

bobbysocks · #32 06-15-2010, 10:25 PM

my stick ended up doing the same thing SEE's did....locked the rudder to the one side. emailed madcatz and didnt hear back...so called them. i got a pretty helpful guy and told him my problem. he came right back with the reason. the potentiometer that controls the rudder is at the bottom of the stick where all the movement is...one of the 3 wires has come off. then..much to my suprise, he told me its an easy fix and asked if it was something i tought i could do? i told him i didnt want to VOID my warranty in case i have to send it in for another reason. according to him...as long as he gives me the ok and enters my info...there is no problem. he then took a stick apart while talkin to me on the phone and went step by step on how to fix it... hmmm ... will keep you updated on this one.

Crosshair14 · #33 06-15-2010, 10:43 PM

I dont like the stick I like PS3 controller better.

SEE · #34 06-16-2010, 06:21 PM

I took my FLY 9 apart to look at the internals and locate an intermittent problem with it. This time it was not the rudder pot but the elevator pot which had a wire that needed re-soldering. During manufacture hot melt glue is used to secure the wire to the solder connections (to prevent them from breaking away during movement of the flight stick yoke). The glue was the problem (which I wont go into here). Its been fine since and thankfully that rudder pot is very easy to get to but I was expecting to see a conventional pot rather than that pre-set miniature type held in place with glue. If mine packs up again I will transplant the AV8R wired elctronics in and hopefully get one reliable product from the two........

(...but, touch wood it's been fine so far and I do use it a lot!)

bobbysocks · #35 06-16-2010, 08:43 PM

well....did as the guy told me and works fine. like you said SEE the glue is the problem and shaving it away from the connector was a B!tc#. i didnt use glue when i replaced the wire i used silicone. think i may screw around with the old AV8R and pull the rudder pot out and fashion rudder pedals...that is if madcatz doesnt ofer to give me a new one...

but back in the air...just have to figure what is up with my mic...too much echo.

hurricane · #36 07-19-2010, 11:44 PM

i revived this post after reading about drivins problem with his flight stick.i know see "evangaluse" is out of town and didnt know if you ever read this.wonder why xbox il2 users never stickied flight stick tests like the ps3 guys did.

bobbysocks · #37 07-20-2010, 12:30 AM

mine crapped out again a couple days after i fixed it. sent it in but havent gotten it back yet. same deal....wire came off rudder pot.

Robotic Pope · #38 07-20-2010, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by hurricane

i revived this post after reading about drivins problem with his flight stick.i know see "evangaluse" is out of town and didnt know if you ever read this.wonder why xbox il2 users never stickied flight stick tests like the ps3 guys did.

Yeah, I think Angelo has given up with the fly 9 now. He said he was going to gut it and put in the inards of an AV8R with its wired conection to the 360.

AV8R = Bad quality plastics and design, but with ok wiring.

Fly 9 = Better design and plastics that are less likly to snap from use, but very unreliable wiring.

Drvn1 · #39 07-20-2010, 02:22 AM

Yeah, i am actually very dissapointed as this stick only lasted me 3 days.. I will most likely stick with the controller and trade this thing in on some turtle beach headsets

SEE · #40 07-20-2010, 02:05 PM

Very dissappointing to hear that all of these sticks have failed but even more concerned that all had identical problems. Mine recently became very unstable in flight, first with intermittent throttle and shortly after with the other flight controls. I like the stick itself but at the moment the only model worth geting in terms of reliability is the ACE EDGE. I have had to revert back to my PC SAITEK Cyborg 3D Gold (modified for Xbox) while I either find the cause of the problem with the FLY or modify it using the AV8R PCB (kindly donated by MadMaxfury) and revert back to the USB which was more reliable.