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• By on Friday, October 07, 2022
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• Review: Excellent Product

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I would buy this product again

• By NAVARRO from Pensacola FL USA on Monday, April 22, 2019
• Pros: Works Great
• Review: The best

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It's fine, could be better.

• By A Customer from New England on Wednesday, March 07, 2018
• Pros: Solid piece of hardware.
• Review: I've owned this product for more than a year. It seems sturdy and does what I need it to do. I think it's a good value. That said, there are issues that keep it from being a five-star product, all related to software. First, at least on the Mac, it too often is not recognized by XPlanes on startup necessitating a restart of the application. This is a big hassle. Second, managing the pulse rate of the the rotating switches is difficult and, in my setup, does not persist (so I have to reset the pulse rate each time I use it... or live with the default which is very clumsy). My guess is that these problems track back to the freeware drivers Xsaitekpanels 2.71, not sure. Resolving these problems would take my rating to 4.5 stars.

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Great tool with some issues

• By Adam from Montana on Saturday, April 30, 2016
• Pros: Good support from MadCats and adds reality to sim
• Review: I got this for Flight Simulator 2004 on a windows seven PC. I am using the SPAD v0.5 drivers. There are some issues that people have listed on other reviews that I would like to talk about.
  1)The radio selector knobs are a little stiff but I like that, it makes it harder to skip the radio I want.
  2) The frequency selection knobs are really cheap and it dose skip digits. However with the SPAD drivers and turning the knobs slowly that doesn't happen as much. I might end up doing something about it later but for now it is not much of a problem.
  I had problems getting the drivers to run on my computer. Turns out you need to "run as administrator " for things to work. I recommend SPAD because the Saitek drivers seemed harder to get to work with Flight Simulator 2004 because it is old.
  99% of the functions worked on my add on aircraft. I have several from different companies like Coranado, Aerosoft and Abacus to name a few. The only issue was the Aerosoft Piper Cheyenne, I could not set the transponder, everything else worked.
  I am using this to practice for my real world IFR flights.
  
  

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Radio and Multi panel fix

• By A Customer on Saturday, March 26, 2016
• Pros: Fixes Radio Frequency Issues
• Review: There's a mod by www.motivemods.com which replaces the OEM encoders eliminating the skipping of frequencies completely on the radio and multi panel.
  
  Here's a review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1StSpRnhHOY
  
  The product can be found here: http://www.motivemods.com/Flight-Sim-s/888.htm

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A different must on your stack.

• By Bruce paz from Eureka CA USA on Thursday, October 08, 2015
• Pros: Easy to use.
• Review: Awesome gear a must need to learn VOF navigation, still learning but thats whats all about.

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Not happy. Kind of works if you use 3rd party drivers

• By Mosart from Parkland, FL on Wednesday, April 15, 2015
• Pros: Looks good.
• Review: Native drivers skips two numbers for every knob "click". This is quite an issue when you have to concentrate on other aspects of flying, and can't quite set the desired frequency. SPAD fixes this issue, but does not work well with Prepar3d under Windows 8.1
  
  Manufacturer help was next to useless. Very responsive with generic replies. They won't even read your messages, just copy and paste something out of a list of standard replies and send it it you.