Logitech GX56 H.O.T.A.S Throttle and Joystick Flight Simulator Game Controller, 6 Dregrees of Freedom, 4 Spring Options, +189 Programmable Controls, RGB Lighting, 2x USB, PC - Black

I love this thing. It has such a nice feel to the grasp for both hands and the buttons are all perfectly placed. I've had no problem with mine and I've had it a year now. The hat's on stick feel great to the thumb touch too.If I had one gripe it's that the joystick is a little large, but maybe I just have small hands. And in fairness it does come with a section to keep your hand reat a bit higher which is good.The colours of the lights are a nice touch and can be changed too.Great HOTAS set up for professional gamers.

The media could not be loaded. PROS• Ergonomic feel• Many customisations, hundreds of programmable controls• Easy plug and play, might need to tweak keybinds/settings• 30 buttons, some with multiple functions including: two way switches, knobs, triggers, hats, joysticks and sliders.• Compatible with many games including MSFS, DCS, Star Citizen, War Thunder, etc.• Split throttle, allowing for intense combat mechanics.CONS• A bit expensive for budgets, but I recommend as it is worth it.• Throttle is a bit stiff, even at the weakest setting, sometimes it moves across my desk.• Supposed reports of ‘ghost inputs’, I haven’t had a problem with these yet, pretty decent otherwise.OVERALL REVIEWThe Logitech HOTAS X56 is a great hands-on piece of flight simulator hardware, with an excellent design and features for customisation. It has customisable RGB and is a great medium budget option for sim users.RATING - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I've been a fan of the X-series HOTAS setups since my first experience with the X35 that plugged into a gameport and the keyboard socket. I'd worked my way up to an X52 when Madcatz bought Saitek and everything leaped gleefully aboard the handbasket to you-know-where. The software ossified and the build quality tanked. My pre-Madcatz X52 was pretty much on its last legs and I was seriously considering other brands when Logitech stepped up and took the product line in hand. I gave 'em a bit of burn-in time while barely keeping my X52 working but it was eventually time to get off the dime and replace it.The X56 fits my (admittedly larger-than-average) hands as well as the X52 ever did. Its build quality is at least on a par with its predecessor that enabled me to keep playing through the years when I wouldn't have touched a new Saitek-branded-but-Madcatz-built unit with a bargepole. Its ergonomics suit ME almost perfectly (more about the "almost" below) but I would recommend that anyone contemplating buying one get their actual hands on one at least once before forking over the dough, so that they know how it might fit them. If this actually fits your hands you'll be in a good place with it.The two units are power-hungry. There's no getting away from that. Plug them into a powered hub and your experience will be smoother. Good USB3.0 hubs with ample power to spare are affordable enough that there's no reason to NOT use one, so this doesn't even qualify as a nitpick against the X56.However, there are some aspects that do qualify as nitpicks.On the stick:- The spring on the twist(yaw) axis is a little too stiff for my taste. Coupled with the ergonomics of the stick layout, this can potentially lead to your fingers (middle and ring particularly) cramping up after a prolonged flight session.- Button A should stand a bit prouder than it does. As it sits right now, it is hard to activate that button without nudging at least one of the three hatswitches.- The witch-hat and castle (H1 and H2) could do with a little more space between them or a differential in height to prevent catching the high points of the castle while using the witch-hat.On the throttle:- The scroll control on the left of the throttle needs to either be a 360-degree relative control, like every other scroll wheel in the universe, or not be a scroll control. Relative controls like scroll should never have a min and max position.In the software:- If you're going to let us assign curves to any axis, let us do it for ALL of them, including the rotaries and thumbsticks, not just the major ones.These are all really minor gripes, but together they are what cost this product its fifth star from me.

Very good value for a mid range HOTAS system. Only downside is that it is NOT compatible with ANY Xbox console.

Without question the worst mid/high end purchase I've ever made for my PC. The ghost inputs from the throttle appear to have around 5 different fixes from what I can see online, from silly (having to plug one component into a case USB port and another in the back of the motherboard) to downright ridiculous, (Having to set the LED's to a specific shade of red. I wish I was joking but that's the one that cleared them up for me.) to the absolutely obscene (People having to actually solder connections properly themselves.) This HOTAS is NOT supported by Ghub for some reason, and the replacement software they come with looks almost identical to Ghub's layout with the glaring exception of any calibration options, while the manual procedure for calibration does not work. The LED's themselves are mismatched in colour, the lights on the throttle being almost what you set them to look like whilst the stick lights are a much much lighter colour, barely resembling what you selected. When you twist the joystick to the right in lieu of a rudder controller, it does not return to the centre, returning instead to just right of centre instead, meaning if you are using them for a precise game such as DCS, you cannot trust your input to actually be where it should be if you release it. Before buying this HOTAS, do yourself a favour and look up "x-56 ghosting" or "x-56 calibration and look at the swathes of people complaining about all the methods they've tried and how so many people are horribly dissapointed with their purchase, just like me. Utterly unnacceptable for this price tag and from a company who's entire catalogue is making PC peripherals. A crying shame because the actual units feel like good quality, high precision equipment being horribly let down by awful QA and corner cutting. I simply could not tell you how this has 60%+ 5 star reviews. I guess they got lucky with their purchase.