I,ve had mine over a week now and I think its awesome, in a plane you can get away without having rudder pedals but I believe they are are a must for a chopper. The product itself is really well made and i,m sure will last a very long time.The throttle starts off stiff as hell but loosens up after a while to be very nice, all hat switches and sticks and buttons are easy to get at and if there is a complaint it is that some are easy to touch by accident but where this happens you just program that switch with a delay on it and problem solved,as I have said on another post I can,t see myself useing any other stick now, in fact I have just sold my X52 which I thought was great until I got the x65f I think it,s not so much the stick you have to get used to it,s just that it takes a bit of time to find the settings suit you to start offwith once you get those right you just go for it.And I sold the X52 to help pay for the pedals so this stick better last because I can,t afford anything else for a very very long time.