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Don't lose your confidance in APEKS. While this regulator may have some issues that need to be worked out (I'm not sure and the only people you are hearing from are likely a smalle percentage that bought the flight) I have found my XTX50 is rock-solid in waters in the mid 30s. I personally had a free-flow on a Scuba Pro M25/350? I think that was the combo. We dive cold deep in MN and the LDS turned me onto APEKS. It said something that most of their instructors were using them. I just told them I didn't want anymore freeflows. I was going to buy the XTX200 but they said I really didn't even need that. He mentioned he had dove the XTX200 in Antarctica. My experience has been great. Probably 60 dives on the XTX50 this year and no sign of a freeflow.
Agree the XTX is a great reg, unfortunately the Flight is not an XTX. Good luck to those with Flight issues FWIW the AL Mikron is also very small and has proven to be very reliable. I was once upon a time considering the Flight but my old LDS strongly suggested the Mikron over the Flight he too complained about it being rather "touchy".