Hello,Today on myflight from KOMA-KLAS my CH Flight Sim Yoke USB quit responding. As I was approching Nevada my yoke quit responding to anything, it simply died on me. Needless to say I had to land the flight by use of the keyboard but was unable to taxi back to the terminal as I use my yoke as well to steer on the ground.I would like to know if this has happend to somebody else or what could be the cause!This does never happen to me on shorter flight but on the longs er flights it seems that it quits responding after an x amount of time.Thanks.

Helle Edwin,The probable cause was windows put the usb device to sleep mode when it was unused for x amount of time.1 way of trying to rectify this would be to unplug the usb connecter and then reconnect it about 5-10 seconds later.Try playing with the windows settings to prevent windows from putting the usb yoke to sleep :)right click on my computer then click properties then click on the hardware tab. Now click on device manager, click on the usb controllers and then click on the port (HUB) were your yoke is connected click it and under properties go to the end tab power management and untick the box which lets windows turn off the device for power saving purposes!If you do not know which hub it is use trial and error ;)Hope this helps,regardsMark ;)http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpgAKA BAW101, First Officer

Mark,Thanks for the reply, however I do not have the tab for power management, the one you refer to.Hope there is another solution to this. I did check in control panel to see if there was something like that but no luck there either.Thanks again.

I have the same problem with my CH pedals USB. Till now no solution for the problem, other then unplug and plug the dvice back in. This reactivates the USB port I think. I have put all my power savings to 0 with no better results. Someone gave me the advise to buy and external powered USB hub, with its own power supply, but this did not work either. It is a very boring problem with no solution till now as far as I know.Tinobeheerder simflight.nl

Solved my problem by installing the CH control manager. I don't use the key facilities only the USB driver. That solved the "dead pedals" problem.Jos

Hi Edwin,Which version of windows are you running?The info I gave was in a XP enviroment, it may be different under win 9.xAlso you say there is no tab for power management, you will only see this tab under the USB ROOT HUB devices not the usb controllers :) incase you did this by mistake? again that is in win XP I do not know if it differes under 9.xPossibly it could be a Bios setting If you feel confident in the Bios have a look under power management and see if there are any clues to the problem in there?Also do try what Jos

Mark,I am running Windows XP myself so you were on track with that. I did find the USB Root HUB and you were right all of them were check marked to turn off by the computer to save power, needless to say I did uncheck them.I actually tried the CH Control Manager software as well but it messed my yoke up even more I lost actuall control on the mixture lever. So that has been uninstalled again, I did use the 3.0 version from there web site.Thanks alot for helping me with this issue, I guess I have to fly the trip again to see if were ok right know.Thanks a lot!!!!!!

No worries,I am glad I could help out :)Mark ;)http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpgAKA BAW101, First Officer