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Nov 21^st, 2011 at 12:16am

wahubna Offline
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If my wife's car is ok and stays okay, she offered to get me the CH Eclipse Yoke for Christmas. My question is, what yokes do you guys prefer? I need rudder functionality but I have not found a way to have pedals that wont bring the yoke+rudder cost over $200. The Eclipse Yoke has nifty little pedals on the yoke that you use your thumbs to work for the rudder. Its different, but a yoke beats the crap out of a stick in my book!

Any other ideas for good yokes? Or if you have used the Eclipse would you recommend it?

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Reply #1 - Nov 21^st, 2011 at 4:03am

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I know it doesn't help, but in 15+ years of M$ flight simming, I have never felt the overwhelming urge to spend VAST sums of money on matching Flight Yokes and Pedals.
I must admit that all my various, low-cost, twist Joysticks, have adequately fulfilled the purpose for which they were designed...
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Reply #2 - Nov 21^st, 2011 at 4:33am

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I never liked yokes. They were only fitted to larger multi-engined aircraft in my day. I find the joystick far more natural.

I suppose it all depends on which type of aircraft you want to fly. I spend a lot of time around small airfields & noticed a trend back towards the good old joystick in modern light aircraft.

PS. The sidestick used on many Airbus types is very similar to a gaming joystick. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Airbus_A380_cockpit.jpg

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Reply #3 - Nov 21^st, 2011 at 7:21am

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I found it much easier to control most GA and commercial aircraft with a yoke. Basically if I see a yoke or anything that is reminiscent of a yoke in the VC I prefer a yoke. I find the default Cessna, Mooney, Lear, and King Air (among all the rest) to be far to touchy. In our UAV lab here at Western we have a yoke and pedal setup, its so much better flying anything that is not high performance or a helicopter.

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Reply #4 - Nov 22^nd, 2011 at 2:42pm

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to me at last the rudders pedals are essential , I used to use my own homemade small cockpit with thrusters pedals and yoke , I took it of a long time ago because I need more space in my PC , I bought a Joystick with two sliders Throttle and rudder BUT I can't get used to keep both hands in the same place in approach ..I need my pedals
I will adapt the pedals and the throttle to the joystick and put the Joystick in the left side of the keyboard like Airbus airplanes

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Reply #5 - Nov 26^th, 2011 at 2:52pm

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Nice alrot!

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Reply #6 - Dec 6^th, 2011 at 2:15pm

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I assume you already have a joystick..?
My suggestion would be to hold off on the yoke and get some pedals (saitek or CH they are both good) then save up for the yoke.... Cool

....IMHO having a yoke without pedals is really......pointless.

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