Saitek Cyborg FLY 9 Wireless Flightstick - REVIEW

[bobbysocks]

i second that...or as a PAID consultant or tester!

[hurricane]

Originally Posted by bobbysocks

i second that...or as a PAID consultant or tester!

thats all we need angelo testing flight sticks online.i can here it now.my stick is knackered,oh bloody hell iv'e been got.i hate this bloody map ican't see a thing.or if the mic is screwed up aaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy?

[SEE]

Not many to test for Xbox, I would be redundant after 10 minutes....

Fortunately, the days of knackered 'out of the box' flight sticks doing my head in has long past and, yep!, I hate those horrid, murky grey, can't see sweet F/A furball maps where it all happens at 25 ft above the deck...........I really hate them!

[Kirki]

Thanks for the advice, I will speak to Madcats and see if they will go for it. Funnily enough after sending an email to Madcats and telling them this is my second stick they offered to collect it and fix it free of charge, which is how it should be really.

[SEE]

The Cyborg X (for PC) has exactly the same rudder set up but the wires never fall off. The only difference is that there is no battery housing to interfere with the movement of the wires attached to the rudder pot. They offered to pick mine up when it failed three days after purchase and sent me a new one. They said that they wanted to keep it and evaluate why it failed - they obviousley didn't come with a solution!

All the best with the repair/replacement.

[bobbysocks]

Originally Posted by SEE

The Cyborg X (for PC) has exactly the same rudder set up but the wires never fall off. The only difference is that there is no battery housing to interfere with the movement of the wires attached to the rudder pot. They offered to pick mine up when it failed three days after purchase and sent me a new one. They said that they wanted to keep it and evaluate why it failed - they obviousley didn't come with a solution!

All the best with the repair/replacement.

so you think if i cut out the battery box and put an adapter to the correct voltage it might work??? other than that i am sticking with my ace combat and dumping the fly9 on ebay,......when they send it back. so far i have had to relearn to fly on 3 different sticks...its like being a cadet! i wish kit carson was still running clobber college. HEY i just got an idea!

[SEE]

If you are happy with the Ace Edge then sell the FLY 9 as, quite frankly, it's an expensive stick to have as a 'back-up'. I wouldn't remove the battery housing but try re-routing the wires to the potentiometer from the opposite direction. Remove the glue on one side of the potentiometer and run the wires along the edge of the potentiometer now free of glue and, holding the wires next to the side of the potentiometer just drop a small amount of hot melt glue to hold them in place. You might need to lengthen the pot wires - waggle the yoke around and check that the wires have enough slack to move freely.

You may find that removing the battery housing will affect any future sale but if you are intent on keeping it (and fed up with changing batteries) then I guess you could carefully hack the housing away. Problem is that 3V adaptors are not very common. I removed the housing on mine but only because I installed an AV8R PCB (which is USB powered) and the battery compartment was not needed.

[hurricane]

Originally Posted by hurricane

thats all we need angelo testing flight sticks online.i can here it now.my stick is knackered,oh bloody hell iv'e been got.i hate this bloody map ican't see a thing.or if the mic is screwed up aaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy?

most of the time its me saying nice shot angelo what stick you using?damn angelo you got me again!shit! go shoot someone else!!

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by hurricane

most of the time its me saying nice shot angelo what stick you using?damn angelo you got me again!shit! go shoot someone else!!

If it makes you happy Bucket, I will shoot at you more so Angelo doesn't get the chance 'cos you'll be already dead.