Not a single thing worked right with this thing out of the box. It recommended a 24" monitor and had a Dell in the picture. I have a Dell 24" monitor and it wouldn’t even come close to fitting until I modified the flimsy bungee hold downs by egging them out to slide them as far as possible to fit around the monitor and still only barely managed to get it to fit by taking screws out of the glareshield that was hitting the monitor. So now the glareshield has big gaps on the top and sides. I can’t count how many times the bungees popped off those little tabs since they don’t hold it down at all. Somehow I didn’t lose an eye though.
I hoped that 3 hour fiasco was the end of my problems until I actually plugged the thing in and found that every single rotary encoder is completely useless in MSFS even using Mobiflight unless you want to spend 3 hours to turn it 90 degrees. It doesn’t register as an Arduino but as a standard game controller, so these encoders seem to be useless. Not only that I asked if the ignition switch had a spring return 3 separate times at least 2 weeks before I got it and never got a response. Not only does it not have a spring return from start, it feels very cheap and the key comes out in every position and is extremely hard to put back in. It came scratched up below the compass as well. The packing was minimal at best, and that’s being generous. This isn’t $553 of worth of quality to say the least.
It looks good, but I’m going to have to completely rewire it to make it usable it seems. My old homemade mag switch with spring return and switch panel worked great, so did my little panel with rotary encoders for obs/hdg and radio. So I have no idea how everything that could be done wrong on this, was in fact done wrong… So just a heads up for anybody that want to buy it and slap it on a monitor and do some flying, it’s not going to happen!