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Yeah so my ghosting was so bad that I could open the Logitech software and go to the programming section and simply move the throttle and watch as a variety of other buttons / switches would light up orange. It would only be flickers but that is enough to ruin your gameplay. Once I realized that my unit didnt show the same issues as the video after disassembling the unit I figured I would start trying to find what is causing the problem by unplugging one cable at a time hoping to find something. I took it to the point where pretty much only the right throttle was actively plugged in .... still buttons on the right throttle would light up... such as both rotary buttons... that slider switch, sometimes the little 4 way silver hats would engage. Was really getting frustrated. Actually chucked the unit in the garbage once and said screw this crap I'm gonna buy that Vrpil throttle (sp?).... Came to my senses got the unit out of trash and put the damn thing all back together. A friend of mine was adamant that putting it on the USB that came off the headers of the mb that ran to front of case solved HIS issues (also an X56 owner) ... wished I had talked to him earlier in day. It fixed everything. While I had it apart the throttle moved very easily so let me tell ya I beat the crap out of moving it around and could not get it to ghost anymore. Worked on either header USB3 or USB2 (i have two of each on front of case.) Put it all back together. Played 4 hours of Elite without a single ghost press. Not once did I get a random afterburner while trying to land LOL!!!!

Joystick is on a shelf not connected at all during this testing, just FYI. Opened it up took everything apart. Did not see any signs of anything mentioned above such as cracking cables etc. The wires were very flexible in mine so I think later models did get some new wiring. While testing moved throttle and watched the ghosting happen in Logitech software... sometimes so bad all the switches towards front would glow. Found the harness inside right throttle assembly was twisted on itself about 6 times to shorten it... thinking maybe it was too tight...untwisted and put it back together. Nope still ghosting. Started removing items from the unit one at a time. Left throttle. Still happened, both RTRY3 and RTRY4, still happened. I stand corrected that there is some type of USB issue here. I did all this testing on a USB3.0 powered hub going to MB connector. Tried EVERY damn port on MB. I know this was mentioned above but I honestly did not buy into this as a fix.... connecting the throttle straight to one of the mb headers that runs to front of case.... NO GHOSTING whatsoever. WTH. NONE. I moved the throttle like a mad man nothin, no ghosting. I suggest trying your unit straight to one of those USB headers. I tried both USB3.0, and both USB 2.0 on front of case. ALL WORKED no ghosting. Thinking too good to be true I put Joystick on USB3.0 hub. All working no ghosting. @Mower "Damn Straight."

Saw this thread and registered in hopes to help out. Everyone is chasing a "Red Herring" because this is a blatant manufacturing QA/Engineering DEFECT. I've been an owner of x56 since 2017 and encountered this back then and yes the powered USB 3.0 hub, and attaching throttle to the hub and keeping the stick separated from that on another usb chain/channel "helped" but did not fully eliminate the issue. There are no permanent fixes aside from opening it up and doing some work. The issue stems from when the throttle moves some wires in the harness gets crimped regularly. This harness gets flexed continuously as you move the throttle. References for permanent solution it is ugly folks. I plan on doing this myself. But I guess referenced in below thread is a company that will do the work for you if you are shy about replacing all the wiring. Unfortunately there is no email to the company just a company name. Hope this helps! I am going to try out option 2 below and take some of the ideas from the first link. Remember even though the video is for an X55, do some searching on that, the ghosting issue persisted back then. X56 didnt change, Logitech bought Saitek. Not really sure if they did anything on the manuf. end since my unit with all the problems was purchased from Logitech directly. Going to crack it open today and see if I see the cracking wires as shown ... expecting I will see issues. Thread for fix: https://www.reddit.com/r/hotas/comments/5kp6pv/saitek_x55_x56_pro_rhina_permanent_fix/ Defect shown on video in action: