Okay, so my old dog of a computer is on its last legs, and I am moving my copy of RF Deluxe to my wife's computer. No money for G2 at this point, as we're both in grad school. I bought a gameport/USB adapter at RadioShack (no gameport on the wife's computer) and installed the sim and fired it up. The signal in from the elevator was real noisy, and I figured it was something in the USB adapter. Well, I put the controller back on my old computer and it still had the noise (no USB adapter). I haven't used RealFlight in a while, so don't know when this problem really started.

I opened up the controller and checked voltages on each of the potentiometers, and everything looks okay. I guess that means its something in the cable? A short somewhere? When I'm looking at the RealFlight calibration screen, it jumps around from 0% to 50% or 100% signal, without moving the stick.

I guess my question is, has anyone else had trouble with noise/shorts in their controllers? Any suggestions?

Thanks

Boy did you post at the right time . the controllers are assembled with anough clearance on shafts on the pots. Wippers are damaged when you move controls. My RF never has worked rite since I got it . So today I took it appart , took pots appart and put lite weight spring on back side to hold pressure on wipper platte. Works better know than it ever hass. Clean holes in gimbles so that pot shafts slide infree.
This is not for some on that does not know what they are doing could ruin controler. This also affects the wall paper, and stoped the jitters. am going to order new pot since out off warrenty.
GOOD LUCK

What pot are you getting? They seem to be 100 K with about 60-80 degrees of travel. Do you have any part numbers?

The reading that you have are the same as I got but they will not hold in operation. The pots sample and mix the signal to operate controlsand graphics. Found the problem when I dissembled the gimble. The gimble was holding presure on the pots that wore the shafts anought to weaken tenshion on wipers.
Called GP support and the got a little smart with me and said that the controller was out dated and to buy a USB that they did not give out information to on parts to key pushers that don't even fly; Then gave me the net support EMail. GREAT GUY!!!!!!
PC messing up again get back later if I find more info.