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CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB

CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB

List Price: $149.00
Your Price: $94.89
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Nice, but overpriced.
Review: This yoke works great with Microsoft Flight Simulator and other flight simulators. Installation is painless'just plug in the USB connector and install the driver. The buttons and switches on the yoke are automatically mapped to various functions in MS flight simulator (no configuration necessary), such as changing the view. Without pressing a key, you can change the view from inside the aircraft cabin to a 3D chase view, or looking up at you aircraft from the tower, which a flick of your thumb.

This yoke even has a small plastic wheel that even acts like a trim wheel.

However, it feels like what it is-- a... plastic yoke. The thickness of my desk wasn't thick enough, so I had to use a book or two to get the clamps to firmly grip my desk and even then it wasn't totally stable. Also, unlike a real airplane yoke, you can pull back (or push forward) and it won't totally return to neutral. This may be a problem with the software, but I was disappointed. I had high expectations because of the high price that simply weren't met.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Not bad, but...
Review: Very nice yoke indeed. I fly Cessnas, so I do have a small complaint. The trim wheel is on the left of the yoke, in the cessna it's on the right. I'd prefer they at least put the trim wheel in the right place and possibly create some actual push/pull throttle and mixture controls.

The action on this yoke is fairly well. Much better experience than using a joystick, especially better than a joystick with built in rudder that always twists when you go left/right.

Well done!


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