Yoke, Throttle and Pedals

This page contains sections about the Flight Controls for my Boeing 767 flight simulator: the CH Products Yoke, the GoFlight Throtttle and the CH Products ProPedals.

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Flightsim Yoke USB

A steering wheel for pitch and bank (elevator and ailerons) is something you must have. I'm very satisfied with the flight sim yoke of CH products. It works fine. There are of course more appealing products, but they cost a lot more.

The axis and functions are mostly assigned directly in FS9 and Level-D:

 

The axis are calibrated via FSUIPC, so in FS9 I define no null zone:

 

An exception is the Steering Tiller axis, that is not present in FS9 but a special FSUIPC Service and therefore has to be defined via the Axis Assignment tab in FSUIPC. This is how Pete Dowson describes this new facility:

One additional axis of note, not available elsewhere, is the Steering Tiller. This uses the FS Rudder control, but can be calibrated separately (e.g. to be more responsive I use the inverse S-shaped slope options). Then the two are used together as follows: When on the ground and at any ground speed less than 60 knots (default adjustable by the MaxSteerSpeed parameter in the INI file), the actual FS rudder action is controlled by a blend of the tiller and rudder axis inputs. At low speed it is predominantly tiller, and as speed increases the tiller becomes gradually less effective and the rudder input more so. Above the MaxSteerSpeed, or in the air, the tiller has no effect."

 

This is the Steering axis part in FSUIPC.INI:

 [Axes]
 0=2Z,256,D,36,0,0,0

 

Another exception is the Push To Talk Button, that controls the Voice Channel of Squawkbox3.
PTT is defined in the Buttons+Switches tab of FSUIPC (and not via FS9). When you hit the button, this window will show up: Joystick#0 and button #0:

This works also when SquawkBox is actually running at a PC other then the one running FSUIPC by using WideFS.

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GoFlight TQ6 Throttle

 

I have programmed the Throttles and the Thrust Reversers via the GoFlight software:

 

The Spoilers and Flaps are programmed via FS9:

 

and calibrated via FSUIPC, hence I define no null zone here:

 

Doing this via FSUIPC and not via GoGlight software was needed to get the flap settings right. Unfortunately this Throttle only supports 6 positions while the 767 has 7...

In FSUIPC.INI I have skipped position 15, like this:

 FlapStarts=-16384,-12716,-7200,-500,6952,13419
 FlapEnds=-14884,-11716,-6200,-200,7452,13419

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Pro Pedals USB

These pedals give you great rudder steering during difficult cross-wind landings. Note that steering during taxiing is doen via the Steering Tiller (in my cockpit a handle at the Yoke).

There are three axis. You can steer the rudder by moving one of the pedals forward (the other will go backwards). By pushing one of the pedals downwards with your toe, you can proportionally break, left or right or both.

The axis are assigned directly in FS9:

 

and calibrated via FSUIPC, hence in FS9 I define no null zone: