Review on 🚀 Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS Space Sim Duo: A High-Performance Windows Controller for Simulated Space Exploration by Justin Vasquez

My first impression was very wrong. This is not a well-equipped mid-range HOTAS. It is a tragic symphony of misconstruction and deception. The throttle wasn't dead instantly, but it didn't last long either. I was under my desk, setting up cable management points, and managed to knock it off my well. my mistake. But wait a second. I've dropped my phone from the same height off the same table probably 10 times with no damage. What could be so fragile about this thing that it died so easily? i opened it There's a circuit board smaller than my cell phone. What I don't see is that anything is torn or in any kind of mess. I don't have an inspection microscope handy, but I do have a 10x jeweler's loop. Even with this I had time to find the problem. There is a tiny inductor. It's basically a coil of ultra-fine wire wrapped around a tiny piece of what looks like black plastic, and it's soldered to a tiny pad on one side only. quickly punched and secured with a soldering iron. it's not going to happen. Let's see how useful it was before it stopped working. just a bit awkward. and that's where the good news ends. The mouse hat under index finger position works fine. although it looks fragile. The on/off switch on station 2 appears to have a decent forward/reverse pull function for the throttle. Why it worked so inconsistently in real use must remain a mystery. The two buttons on stations 3 and 4 work quite well. The 2D manipulator covers all of this and isn't as clunky and clunky as it sounds. and the little finger at the end actually seemed tight. As long as you don't completely remove your hand to do something on the keyboard, it's not a problem. Everything has good tactile detection surfaces so it only takes a few minutes to sort your hand back into the blindfolded position. Aside from being made from a lightweight piece of cheap plastic, the throttle worked very well. while everything worked. And now the joystick. A trigger switch. works well. It looks like a two-stage trigger, but it doesn't have a two-stage function. A hat with 8 positions. Of all the features of both parts, this one is the least wrong. It works, works well, and its position and orientation relative to human hand ergonomics is quite comfortable. A secondary trigger. so badly placed that you can expect random triggering when using an 8-position hat. Two extra buttons on the thumb station that work. 12 buttons on the base that shouldn't even be there. They cannot be used without taking your hands off the controls. This makes them completely unusable. The number of teats a boar has also influences the number of boars in a litter. It's not a wild boar. That's a chicken. There is also a slider. Not only is it poorly positioned, but it also doesn't work properly. It's plastic scrap that was later glued to a useless spot. But what about the basic functions of the joystick? Yaw, Pitch, Roll. I tested it in a dogfight with a mechanical NPC. I pulled the stick and heard a click. It didn't fall apart in my hand or stop working, but it made a sound that suggested fragility. I don't buy fragile things. can even be fragile. I had a 4 year guarantee when I bought it. I wasn't worried. I don't want this to be fixed. I don't want this thing to go back the way it should be on its best day.