Hi,
If you look a little further down the threads about RF Basic, you will find a thread started by myself a little about a year ago concerning troubles with the controller I got at the time I bought RFB.
The controller was found to be defective (problem with the operation of the RH stick), it was still covered by the warranty, and Support service was irreproachable and honored the warranty by sending me a new one.
Now, after one year of very intensive use, this "new" controller is starting to develop severe problems in the LH stick (mode 2) - any time I touch the stick I get erratic, spasmodic and rather violent reactions on the rudder. Forget making corrections at low level or on approach, be they throttle or rudder, because if you do the "plane" is as good as doomed.
Now, I am not going to bugger Support after one year of perfect working. I just assume the controller has lived its useful life - which, as far as I consider it, has been pretty short.
What I would like to know is - what can be assumed to be the reliable lifespan of a sim controller?
Because, much as I enjoy RF Basic, I am not willing to buy a new controller every year, and I am even less ready to spend several hundred euros on a more expensive one like one of the more recent versions if it is going to burn in a couple of years. Playing with the sim is fun, but only if you don't have to worry about reliability and bucks!
Thanks for any comments
G.
If you look a little further down the threads about RF Basic, you will find a thread started by myself a little about a year ago concerning troubles with the controller I got at the time I bought RFB.
The controller was found to be defective (problem with the operation of the RH stick), it was still covered by the warranty, and Support service was irreproachable and honored the warranty by sending me a new one.
Now, after one year of very intensive use, this "new" controller is starting to develop severe problems in the LH stick (mode 2) - any time I touch the stick I get erratic, spasmodic and rather violent reactions on the rudder. Forget making corrections at low level or on approach, be they throttle or rudder, because if you do the "plane" is as good as doomed.
Now, I am not going to bugger Support after one year of perfect working. I just assume the controller has lived its useful life - which, as far as I consider it, has been pretty short.
What I would like to know is - what can be assumed to be the reliable lifespan of a sim controller?
Because, much as I enjoy RF Basic, I am not willing to buy a new controller every year, and I am even less ready to spend several hundred euros on a more expensive one like one of the more recent versions if it is going to burn in a couple of years. Playing with the sim is fun, but only if you don't have to worry about reliability and bucks!
Thanks for any comments
G.