Mad Catz F.L.Y 5 Flight Stick reviews

For the price, its amazing. Of Course you “could” get a better product, but for a price increase… This sticks portability features are great and the way you can shape it into your hand is excellent. When I buy joysticks I always go Mad Catz and Cyborg is a sub brand of Mad Catz. All in all for the price AMAZING

After approx 1 week a wire connected to teh yaw pot in the base broke off – resulting in no yaw function – (Had to remove the base, strip wire back and made a temporary repair so I had rudder function)

The swing-out wings sections are also very flimsy and have a very weak lock-in-position capability.

The centre spring is also far too strong and there is a fair bit of pressure required to make small accurate movements or hold the stick off-center.

Not Recommended!

Well made, looks fantastic, easy to setup and use, and great price on sale from mighty ape!

Great small joystick gets the job done for the price range

You get what you pay for. A decent stick with multiple buttons. Looks great as well. Stick is also highly adjustable. Does it fly well- Reasonably.

However I had two issues with mine when I received it. There is a bit of a wobble on my stick and I am still trying to contact mightyape.co.nz to have it replaced because of it. Also the rudder/yaw twist function has an innate deadzone that you can't get rid of from what I can tell. IMO you should leave all deadzones off a joystick especially innate ones and leave it to the user to adjust their own deadzones for their preferences.

Mine lasted about 3 months (approx 270 hours) before it got stuck in a permanent roll. From about 2 months, it began intermittantly drifting to the right. Adjusting and calibrating has no affect. Also, right from new, the spring mechanism to keep the stick upright and centered seemed sticky and jerky to move, making small slow fine movements almost impossible. Don't buy this rubbish, the Logitech stick is a lot better, cheaper, and more reliable.

On paper this looks like the best stick in the price range and has all the features you could possibly want but unfortunately it wobbles front to back making it inaccurate and requires an extremely high amount of force to move against the spring. Could have been so good but not recommended.