| If you are a real flight simulator software enthusiast, | | | | throttle. Flying with a joystick works well, but if you |
| you want to make the flying experience as realistic as | | | | want to really experience what it is like to fly a plane |
| possible. How do we do that? Well, these days there | | | | with a realistic control, the next step is a flight simulator |
| are a bunch of controls that we can buy and build up | | | | yoke. |
| our own home cockpit. But where do we start? | | | | A yoke is a device you can buy to control the plane |
| Probably the best control to start with to make your | | | | and works similar to the joystick, in that it can control |
| flying as real as possible is the flight simulator yoke. In | | | | the roll and pitch. The difference is that it has the same |
| this article we will explain why you should consider a | | | | shape as the control on real airplanes, and the feeling |
| yoke, what it is and what you can do with it. | | | | of turning, pushing and pulling the yoke will be as close |
| When you first started with flight simulator software, | | | | as you can get to the real thing. Turn the wheel to |
| you probably used the keyboard. That was all well and | | | | control the ailerons and pull and push to control the |
| good until you really got the hang of flying and then | | | | elevators. Many yokes also have extra controls like |
| thought, I wonder if there is a better way to control the | | | | throttle levers and buttons that can be programmed to |
| plane? At that point, you might have found an old | | | | control a number of other aircraft functions like prop |
| joystick or purchased one and found that it works well | | | | and mix. A yoke is also known as a control column, |
| to control the roll and pitch of the aircraft, and if you | | | | and adding this control to your cockpit will increase the |
| were lucky, it had a couple of buttons that could | | | | level of realism to a new level. |
| control a couple of other parts of the plane like the | | | | |