By Lupin on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 03:09 pm:

You can try to calibrate the joystick again. Take out one battery. Make sure X, Y, and Twist are all centered. While holding down button 9 and 10, insert the battery back to the joystick. That should reset the centering point of the device. You may need to hit the connect button on the receiver again to reconnect the device.

By RumbleB on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 12:51 pm:

I would also like to point out how extremely disappointed / gutted I feel.

By RumbleB on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 12:43 pm:

Just got the stick brand new Logitech Freedom 2.4
Played for around 6 hours and it was working absolutely fine. Then suddenly everytime I was rolling left (moving handle left) it would apply maximum left rudder. This didn't happen when i rolled right however. I went to windows calibration and I saw the handletwist bar jump like crazy between 80-90% at the slightest left stick movement.

http://f5.putfile.com/5/12713235647.jpg

As you can see im only moving it slightly to the left, same thing happens all the way to the left.

When I move it to the right it doesn't effect the rudder/twist
http://f5.putfile.com/5/12713260572.jpg

If i dont move the handle and just twist it gives correct inputs both left and right.

What I've tried:
Uninstall stick, unplug, uninstall logitech software
Tried running with just drivers no logitech software, still the same behaviour.
Tried using clear calibration utility. Tried recalibrating (but on windows calibration the same thing happens)
Tried moving the reciever closer/further away, I have no other cordless devices. I've even tried changing batteries, no effect.
I've got Win XP pro SP2.

This is the strangest hardware problem I've ever had..