liked the look of this stick and price way down on what it started at~? whats wrong with it? Hummmmmm~?? slurpz, its relativly small compared to most sticks, we like that, it also looks like its out of the old commey republic era, 1940/50 ish, we likes that, the action of the stick is soft yet precise, rearranged the centres to zero dead zone in X12 and MSFS,,,,,,zzzzzzzzz, and adjusted the flight characteristics and perfect, for me any way, followed the instrustions and callibrated the stick 1st in windows? Why? then did it again in the sims, whilst in windows the axis callibration was weird, pinky button does not work, and the change action button works as in the lights come on but the action of the buttons refuse to be doubles up, which is fine with me as I use my throttle for most operations, the action of the main axis in MSFS and X12 are better than my thrustmasters I would say, I like the softer smoother action of the stick in flight which has helped enormasly with landing/crashs, the buttons are very good in action too, dont need the throttle yet that works fine as a reverse throttle, they can all be remapped to what ever you wish but the flaps on buttons not so good, another slideing control would be far better, all in all its at a good price, aids flying/ crashing well and I would recommend it, no doubling of the buttons though and no pinky button, as stated by others, pity the throttle does not look like this stick I would buy one otherwise, 9/10 slurpz…..

Back again, puzzled by strange calibration it looks like windows has altered the method of getting this, follow the booklets instructions into devices and printers then right click on the controller and select game controller settings at the top of the list, then select your raptor mach2 from the list then go into properties and top left to settings, from there you can callibrate the stick, the throttle still is missing from calibration and the pinky button still wont light up but once you get into your flight sim the throttle is there and works fine, no pinky though, ive seen a couple of people remark on this on the net also, and you cannot change the action of the buttons with the mode switch either, the mode button appears to work fine and the light goes from red to green and back but the buttons stay the same? possibly arm2 needs an update? not a problem for me, I am really impressed with the action of the stick, and its responce to senseativity changes in both MSFS 2020 and X plane 12, still recommended……..

The plot thickens, this stick appears to be either a copy of the early VKB Gladiator stick, it looks identical, or its the original stick which im tending towards, the tiny instruction booklet is as clear as mud but looking at vkb moaners of the time, on the net I came across mention of the shift button which I had failed to see in the fr-tec booklet, now I can see it, B16 = shift, if you press the fire button in windows test programe the red light for button 14 lights up, if you press the pinky button or as I know know it the shift button nothing appears to happen, but still holding the pinky button press the fire button and 15 lights up so pinky button is a modifier within the arm32 processor, which you should now be able to remap in MSFS, DGS, X12 etc etc, but!!!!! how to access the second bank of modified buttone? so far not finding that from the past, you will also see if you look that the Cobra V6 is visually identicle to both the raptor and the vkb, is it the same or a copy, again I believe they have just rebranded the logo name, no problem, its still a good stick, borderline great stick, I tried my thrustmaster airbus stick last night which I was using quite happly and it now feels all wrong, and thats a good stick too, cant find a maching throttle and dont like current offerings, think I will mod an air bus one??? Slurpz……..