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CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB ( 200-615 )

CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB ( 200-615 )

Command the skies with the king of flight simulator controls, the Flight Sim Yoke USB. This one of a kind yoke offers features that will allow you to fly with the realism you've come to expect from CH Products. The Flight Sim Yoke USB provides 5 axes of control including, pitch, roll, throttle lever, propeller lever, and mixture lever. It also features 20 button functions, including 2-way gear switch, 2-way flaps switch, 8-way hat switch, two 2-way rocker switches, and 4 push buttons. Pilots around the world applaud the comfortably placed prop, throttle and mixture levers. It's the closest thing you'll get to sitting in your own cockpit.
Manufacturer: CH Products


Price: $99.00


CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB ( 200-615 )
User Reviews
Yoke to uso in flight simulation
rating: 5

Is a very good product. I'm very satisfied. The flight simulation is more real now.


CH Products Yoke
rating: 5

Great product! I use it on a Mac machine and am quite happy with it. Takes a bit to get used to it if you've used only a joy stick before but now I wouldn't trade it back. The only little chink is that the clamps are very tight to open. No big deal. All in all, a good item!


Not what I was looking for...
rating: 2

I have owned both a Microsoft Force Feedback and Force Feedback 2 joystick. Both of which I love for the accuracy in which they faithfully translate my input to what I deem realistic movement of the flight controls. This is to be expected by a digital joystick which all Force Feedback controllers are.

I purchased the Flight Sim Yoke USB and Pedals because I realized when I decided to start actual flying lessons, my familiarity with the flight controls of a Cessna 172 wasn't instinctual. This was not an issue until I was performing cross-wind landings and had to "think" about what I needed to do with my feet and hands to hit the touchdown marker aligned with the runway to "take out the crab".

For the price of a single flight lesson, I purchased the CH Products yoke and pedals in order to practice my flight control inputs to the point they would become instinctual. However since these devices are analog, they do not respond as well as the digital devices I was accustomed to. I found myself having to increase the "dead-zones" as the yoke would not necessarily return to neutral and therefore I had to make more accentuated movements simply to control the plane. This became a much less realistic experience than expected and thus a bit of a disappointment.

In the end, I have gone back to using my Force Feedback 2 as it is a much more pleasurable experience and I will wait (and hope) that someone introduces a digital flight yoke and pedals so that realism and accuracy are both accomplished. I would even pay 50%-75% more to have this feature as in the end it would have value as well as ROI when compared to the cost of actual flight time.



Good product that is tougher than it looks
rating: 5

For the price, this is quite a nice little yoke. It is made of plastic, and does not feel super stable, but it has taken quite a bit of punishment so far from me and has proved to be quite tough--much tougher than I had first anticipated. Unlike many of the other reviewers, the built in table clamps have worked just fine for me, though I do have a very thick desk. I am quite pleased with it and would recommend it as a good, cost effective sim yoke. It's not the nicest one out there, but for price, it is great.


Decent for the price...
rating: 3

The good: Easy to use, easy to set up. It was out of the box and "in the air" in less than 10 minutes. Clamps in tight and doesn't come loose, which would really stink while trying to flare after a long flight. Ouch!

The Not-So-Good: The inner springs make noise as you turn giving it a cheap feel. I found the yoke doesn't rest back to the same spot every time, either. My $20 joystick use to "normalize" better than the CH Yoke.

All in all, it's the best deal out there. I'm wondering if I shouldn't have spent the extra few bucks on the Saitek, though.




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