Saitek X52 Flight Control System and Saitek Cyborg Evo Joystick can be said to be the most successful flight joystick products and dominate the most market of  high-end and mainstream game controllers, we can say they are most classic joystick products. EVO series has launched some years, but still no product can challenge to the status of the mainstream king. Saitek launch Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick to commemorate the 10th anniversary of products. Whether it can continue Cyborg EVO series of classic status? Let’s wait and see.

Overview On Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick
I’m feel very surprised when I see Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick so small package. Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick adopts base and shaft separate design, and the base also can be folding design for it can be stored for not occupying too much space.

Only fix the shaft and chassis metal and add fixtures to its rotation, you can very easily together two parts, it is very strong and no loosening, just as a whole. The chassis after the rail support also very stable.

The exterior details of shaft part

Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick inherits the tradition of the Cyborg series form of industrial design, the details of dealing give you feel really fine. There is no critical areas from appearance. It is can be said a successful example of industrial design.

High-end adjusting device is located at the bottom of Saitek Cyborg X shaft.

Part of Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick shaft uses symmetrical design, the same right to left and right hand. The surface of Saitek Cyborg X using post-processing texture, appearance and hand-type lines fit very good, very comfortable to grasp them. There is a buttonin the lower part of the Saitek Cyborg X side, hold down can make regulation on streteching, to appropriate usage of different users.

Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick’s top of comtrol section has four buttons, a wheel and a coolie hat, there is a trigger in the front, the control channel you can use is greater than the previous generation of the EVO. Four buttons feel good in hand. There is an obvious sense of stage for scroll wheel, the resistance is large and operation feel very clear. Coolie hat is too small, and the scope of activities may be smaller than EVO and feeling worse than EVO. Trigger make you feel very good, you can feel powerful and crisp when you press. I believe that you will be pleasure when you striking aircrafts.

The feel of trigger is very good.
The control section of Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick top can be direct regulated during 0-35 degrees. You must operate with a plastic rod which is attached in regulator. An overall perspective of shaft can be adjusted at the bottom, also need to draw the plastic rod into the top fixtures,it will take you some effort.

Exterior details of base
The upper of base has five buttons, two in the front, a total of seven. You can set most of common functions define in the joystick for extent from the keyboard.

Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick using dual-throttle design which is similar to AV8R, can control different engines thrust when driving multi-engine aircrafts such as F15 or 747. You can also lock devices in side button as a whole use if no need to control in games. Throttle and the main buttons are in the left of Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick, people who use right hand to control shaft and  left hand to operate throttle may like it.

Driver Setting
I test Cyborg X Joystick at Windows Vista X64, and Windows 7 X64 Beta, and it can be directly identified with no installation of drivers, but in order to obtain more good driver support and additional features, I still installed the vendor-driven.

Professional Game Testing: Digital Combat Simulator, Black Shark
I choose “Digital Combat Simulator” which is game platform and a new generation developped by Russian game development company Eagle Dynamics. It has greatly improved in game screen, operate, and mathematical models compare to Lock On. You can drive Ka-50 Black Shark gunships battle with the terrorists and the Georgian army.

Players can set various parts of functions in setting interface and can be further setting base on your favorite, DCS for Cyborg X’s default settings are more reasonable.

It has a real-tine response of the screen when using Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick to operate Ka-50 game. Using throttle to control suspense lift while the Z-axis joystick controls can also be steering very convenient, operation Cyborg X on the DCS is very precise and each point will be reflected in the game. Hover, turn, side-up and fly control are very nice, coolie hat adjust viewing angle is also very easy. Because of the bottons of Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick are so many that play can set main function at joystick. DCS is complex, it is impossible that let hand far away from shaft but can greatly simplify the operation.

Coolie hat can be used to adjust viewing angle.

Use trigger firing your rockets and anti-tank missiles at your enemy’s head.

Entertainment game testing: HAWX
HAWX is a fun air combat game in modern themes. Players can drive typhoon fighter sucn as F35, F22 and other types of fighter jets and attack aircraft. Although HAWX can be operated with a better vector controller, but you’d better prepare a joystick to obtain more realistic gaming experience. Cyborg X is a good choice. You will be a fighter pilot if using Cyborg X Joystick and far away the keyboard. You can also complete some impossible or inconvenient movements using joystick, such as use Z-axis to adjust tail and change the direction of flight. But HAWX current demo version has some issues in coolie hat change the perspective of support, and can not  adjust dead-zone. I hope it could be improved in the final version.

It is no problem that use backward F16 wrangle with the Su-47 if you have Cyborg X.You can also choose view tail.

Summary
Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick with excellent industrial design and hand shape, and performance is also very good. I believe that it will be adjourned the EVO’s brilliant. Saitek Cyborg X Flight Joystick has a cost-effective, really worth recommending.

Benefits:
Excellent performance
Outstanding industrial exterior design
Good feel
Detachable folding design

Disadvantages:
You must adjust comparision of angle.