G-LOC Media

    Review Policy & Disclosure

    The short version

    I only review flight sim hardware I’ve personally used. Nobody pays me for a review, nobody sees a review before it goes live, and a free product doesn’t buy a good verdict. More detail below.

    How products end up in my hands

    Every product I review arrives one of three ways:

    • Purchased - bought with my own money at retail price
    • Loaned - provided for review and returned afterwards
    • Supplied - provided by the brand or manufacturer at no cost
    I’ll tell you which one applies in every review, both in the video and in the written review on this site. Loaned gear goes back after the review. Supplied gear sometimes stays in my setup and sometimes goes back - either way, you’ll already know how it arrived, and keeping a product doesn’t change the verdict on it.

    Two things a supplied product never buys: a guaranteed review, and a guaranteed positive one. Brands send gear knowing that if it’s not good, I’ll say it’s not good.

    No paid reviews

    G-LOC Media does not accept payment for reviews. Not now, not ever. The moment money changes hands for an opinion, it stops being a review and becomes an ad. I don’t do that.

    Editorial independence

    No brand sees a review before it’s published. No brand gets to edit, approve, or veto anything I say. If a product has problems, those problems go in the review — that’s the entire point of this channel.

    How G-LOC Media makes money

    This channel and website earn revenue through:

    • The YouTube Partner Program - ads on videos
    • Affiliate links - if you buy through a link on this site or in a video description, I may earn a commission. It costs you nothing extra, and it never changes what I say about a product
    • Brand deals and sponsorships - clearly disclosed in any video or article where they apply
    • Sponsorships and reviews are kept separate. A sponsored segment will always be clearly marked, and a sponsor never gets input into review content.

    My day job

    I work full-time at Next Level Racing. G-LOC Media has no connection to NLR - it’s owned and run solely by me, on my own time, with my own money. Because of that relationship, I don’t review Next Level Racing products. Full stop. You might spot NLR gear in the background of a video from time to time because it’s part of my personal rig, but you won’t see me review it, rate it, or give a verdict on it here. If you ask about NLR gear in my setup, I may point you to a standard Amazon link the same as I would for any other retail product - but NLR has no involvement in this channel, no input into my content, and I have no direct affiliate relationship with NLR. When NLR gear appears on camera, I’ll disclose the employment relationship in that video.

    Brands using my content

    Brands may occasionally license portions of my content for their own advertising or marketing. A few ground rules on that:
    • Licensing is a separate commercial arrangement made after a review is published - never before, and never as a condition of coverage
    • No review is ever produced with advertising use in mind, and I don’t soften a verdict to make footage more usable for marketing
    • I retain approval over how clips are used, so my opinions can’t be cut out of context to imply an endorsement I didn’t give
    • If a brand is using my footage in their advertising, that fact doesn’t change anything about how I cover their products going forward

    Mistakes and updates

    I test thoroughly, but I get things wrong sometimes. If I do, tell me - the comments are open for exactly that reason. If a genuine error makes it into a video, that video will either be reshot or corrected with a pinned comment, and the written review on this site will be updated to match. Reviews reflect the product as tested; if firmware or software updates meaningfully change a product later, I’ll note it where I can.
    One last thing

    I’m not a real-world pilot, and I’ve never claimed to be. Everything on this channel comes from the perspective of a serious sim hardware enthusiast. If you fly the real thing and I’ve got something wrong, I genuinely want to hear about it.