I love my X-52, I've had it from the time they first came out (They had to back order it) and have had no problems with it except for the shaft getting dirty and wanting to stick (real dusty farm land here) but a couple Qtips and some alcohol fixes that, and the silver paint is wearing off from the amount of use it gets.
The best thing about the programming software is the macro feture.. I have all the toggles set up for the /.salvo # commands all the way up to 12.... and just added /.ef to a button today for those quick belly landings with a con on your 6, the macro works in 1 second flat at the push of a button. Not to meantion the auto bomb sight callibration button. I also had a button set up at one time to type /Shut up Viper and the squad got a kick out of that

Also in the windows set up you can set the dead bands to make the stick as tight or loose as you want .
Over all I find it is a good stick but it takes some geting used to. If you need any help I'll do what I can.
