The Thrustmaster T16000M is a fantastic joystick. Its very sturdy does not slide around at all on my desk. Incredibly smooth action and precise control. The buttons and slider do not have as much feedback as I would like and are positioned a little awkwardly but I don't think you'll find another joystick of such high quality for less. Works great in Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen.

Great product with smooth action, loads of programmable buttons and cool orange glow when stick is in use

Overall pleasantly surprised for the price, the joystick looks and feels quite robust. My only complaints are that the throttle slider is very small meaning its quite hard to be accurate and the joystick centering springs seem slightly too stiff meaning it takes quite a bit of force to move the...

Easy To Intall And Use; Precision Movement; Not for small hands

Read lots of reviews for various joysticks in order to play Elite: Dangerous, and this seemed to have what I needed for my budget. It's quite a large controller, larger than I was expecting but this by no means makes it unusable.

The general problem to get over the middle point is solved with a smooth transition. Good idea to light up at this point. The three buttons on the top seem a bit isolated. The button fields are well done. Very special to offer finally an easy change between right and left hand.

I have been using flight simulation for several years now and have got through many Joysticks, some alleged to be amongst the best. Well, all I can say is, this one is the best yet for me, perfect rudder control, and smooth flight, I am now able to use aircraft in the sim (fsx) that I found...

It's ok it seems it was for my son

The gimbal itself is amazing. The X and Y axis are very precise and have an incredibly tiny deadzone. However, the twist axis doesn't use a hall effect sensor and it started jittering within a few months. Now it doesn't yaw left and the throttle slider makes the yaw axis move.

I should have researched this before buying :( This is a solid bit of gear it feels good, centres well, has a good number of buttons and initially felt really well built. I was wrong. The key issue is that the z-axis (rudder) quickly became flaky AF after about 4 months. After some digging online found two fixes for this widely known issue. The first was to disassemble the hand grip and unwind the potentiometer cable. This is wrapped around the pot and the current appears to induce a weird magnetic effect on the pot. This worked for about 4 months. The other fix is to disassemble the potentiometer itself and clean with isopropyl alcohol. I haven’t done this yet but guess that my next step. Buyer beware. If you don’t have problems with the z-axis it’s a good joystick but I’ve had to go back to using my 20 year old Sidewinder Precision Pro.

Would i recommend it to others Depends what they're using it for. But probably not. It would be fine as an off hand stick when running in a dual stick flight/space/mech sim. Your off hand usually isn't as precise as your main hand and is often likely to use a bit more force.

It uses high precision hall effect sensors; Has a large movement area; In a joystick test program, this still will reach every corner of the square test area; It has plenty of buttons; Wasn't crazy-expensive; See Other: Good for off hand

-The spring on it is so rigid that it you lose your precision; If you're trying to do some fine aiming in a space fighter, you'll be fighting the spring; I actually had to take a video to show to my friends how rigid the spring was, i could hold the stick sideways in the air and shake it and the...