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Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2023I like the construction, everything feels robust and it is a big step-up in build from my creaky old T-flight HOTAS (that was more than good enough to get me to Elite combat status). The interconnecting cable is long which gives me more freedom for controller placement with larger keyboards. It is more erogonomic , easier to reach buttons. It has a display which I use to check the correct configuration is loaded. Almost all buttons can have their colour configured (either red, amber, green) and global brightness can be adjusted.
Windows 11 installs driver automatically , and its in the properties that you adjust dead zones, set button colours.
It has a few gotchas that prevent me giving it 5 stars, things that for the price I did not expect to see:
1. If I power-up my PC with it plugged in, the X52 does not startup correctly - the button LEDs light-up but the display is blank and teh driver isnt loaded. I must unplug then plug it back in when Windows is up.
2. If it is plugged in it will sometimes conflict with mouse operations on the windows desktop. This is probably solvable but I havent found the solution yet,.
3. The configuration app is not very user friendly and poorly documented - there are some good post on reddit that help. I cant see how to load a button configuration automatically, I must select my elite settings from the docked app.
4. The thrust control is notched at around 25% and 75%, this gets in the way of smooth operation. I read of people modifying it. I would have preferred a middle dedent for zero-thrust like my old HOTAS.
5. The default button configuration uses some buttons for profile selection (a feature no one seesm to use), this is confusing and conflicts with Elite configurations. You must use the X52 Pro app to change the mode of operation.
6. Make sure you download the X52 Pro button app and not the X52 app and have a web-browser handy!
