This is one area where G3 left a bad taste in my mouth. Had I known that G3 required a registered
and serial numbered (proprietary) controller, I would not have purchased it.

Why?

My controller arrived defective. I couldn't use my own transmitter because the jack on the back
was dislodged/skewed, and I couldn't use the interlink controller itself, because the left gimbal
saddle wasn't snapped-in place internally, causing the centering pin to dislodge because of the
gross misalignment.

I was dead-in-the-water until I fixed it (I wasn't about to send it in for warranty repair/replacement,
because of the time factor), because no other USB interface will work, unless you're a hacker.

They can scream all they want about copy-protection, protecting intellectual property, yadda-
yadda-yadda. In my case, I was an inconvenienced and disgusted customer after paying
300 plus bucks for the sim and all add-ons, only to have their controller keep me from enjoying
it.

It wasn't shipping damage, it was an assembly issue, and others had this same problem.

Protecting intellectual property is noble and good, when customers are not negatively affected,
or inconvenienced.

I'm going to keep G3 because it's a really diverse sim, when you get used to its quirks, but the
proprietary controller issue, in my case, was a negative customer service aspect.

Charles