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Message started by boeing247 on Jul 3rd, 2011 at 4:48am

Title: Re: Joysticks v. Yokes
Post by CoolP on Jul 3rd, 2011 at 5:01pm
Oops, just saw that thread. So my message to Mark could also be placed here.

I'm going on joysticks after trying a yoke once and first all missing the force feedback option there. I saw some FF becoming available later but the prices there are far away from what I'm about to spend.
But I think they were aiming at some homebuilders market, or even commercial ones.

That G940 from Logitech is a nice set, not free of flaws but all of them can be handled. And if you use FF with that additional software from FSForce it will give you at least some feel for your aircraft. Trim, ground impact, sluggish full flap feelings, damping .. it's all there and all adjustable for your bird. FSX has FF implemented too, but misses some options there. So e. g. feeling that you are getting closer to stall speed isn't available there.
As said, ain't no affordable FF yoke around, so you are mainly stuck to joysticks which isn't a downside in my eyes though.

One just has to be aware that the construction of a joystick will always make it more sensible than a yoke because of the smaller distances of axis movement available there. So while you turn your yoke some few degrees by moving your hands around the axis quite some centimetres, that joystick doesn't grab the steering axis at some distance but more spot on (unless you grab that thing at the top end), resulting in far less distance there.
Doesn't need any special setup in FSX though, but e. g. going "full left" to "full right" with a joystick happens really fast while the yoke will give you a more damped experience.
This may be more realistic when flying some (big) birds and far away from that when going on stick steered ones (which isn't an Airbus only thing, but e. g. normal on some GA birds too).

So it depends a bit. FF alone gives me a clear joystick preference here.

If it helps, the 2 throttle setups like on the G940 can be rendered more useful with the registered FSUIPC, allowing some left engines (1,2) /right engines (3,4) setup then. I'm running all 4 engine birds like this.

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