Customer Reviews
saitek st30 - By: Master G. C. Roy, 21 Sep 2008 
i bought this joystick over a week ago as i needed one for fsx! it works well with fsx althogh the buttons are only for different views. the throttle is fairly responsive & the joystick is fairly smooth. this joystick is great for the money although now i am looking to buy a saitek cyborg. if you are serious & wont to play a fsx game dont waste £10 & get a better one!!!!!!!
"Cheap and chearful..." - By: Mr. A. M. HOGG, 19 Aug 2008 Is this a super mega flight stick with a zillion options & roller coaster pneumatic drill feedback? No.
Is this a "value" joystick with a least a few potentiallly programmable functions, including a throttle option? Yes.
For under £10 this stick is very good value. My one works, & some weeks later is still working; as it should. I bought it to play a bargain X2: The Threat I picked up recently. Works fine.
Now if I could just figure out a way to play Privateer 2 on WinXP with this sort of stick, I'd be a happy bunnie!
Cheap. Chearful. Good Buy - By: J. Robinson-lilly, 14 Jul 2008 Good alll round
Good with Flight Simulator however you can feel the quality against price.
A very very good Joystick for the price!
must have for FS - By: Mr. T. J. Chapman, 25 Nov 2007 
Great product! I use this with FS2002 & have had no problems, cant ask for better for that price
A good value decent joystick - By: Peter Harrison, 19 Feb 2007 I wanted a cheap (under £[...]) joystick to use to practise my flying, reasoning that the yokes (CH Products basicallly monopolise them) were way too expensive (£[...]) for me. After alll, as long as it is sensitive to smalll differences in movement (as opposed to a keyboard) I reasoned, it would be just as useful.
I did find that it worked very well, & that I could do some useful practice - have you ever tried Flight Simulator with just a keyboard? I chose this joystick above other ones mainly because, in the specific price range, it was the only one I saw with a specific throttle control on the side. This was just as useful as I hoped it would be, indeed more so - very useful for precise adjustments during landings etc.
Something that I wasn't quite sure about from Amazon was whether it was USB or not - but indeed it is.
Extra stuff: - It has a thingy on the top, where the thumb would go, which I think you can move in 8 directions. It's useful for looking round the cockpit (lookout etc.). Also has three other thumb buttons, & a trigger button, alll of which work as well as you would expect.
The actual movement of the joystick itself is quite smooth, although you can feel slight irregularities between moving it left or down & left, hard to explain though! Certainly nothing impeding performance.
Another thing I was worried about before it arrived was the stability of the base, as I had had a joystick before which fell over when you pushed it & had non-working sucker pads on the bottom. Fortunately, instead of sucker pads, this just relies on a firm stable base, & it's quite difficult to pull it over by accident.
All in alll, very good, especiallly the throttle control!
