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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?

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...
...and saved me loadsa-money to boot...which is always nice!... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!

(I have always found the natural "directional control" of a "Joystick" to be similar to the "Joystick" in a Military aircraft).

Just my fourpennyworth... ...!

Paul...Mr. Tight-fist... ...!

I never liked yokes. They were only fitted to larger multi-engined aircraft in my day.

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.

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

Nice alrot!

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.... 8-)....IMHO having a yoke without pedals is really......pointless.