>I doubt the yoke is there to make it "more automobile like".>Please note that the first large aircrafts and the Zeppelins>tried to replicate the sealiners: so they had a wheel,>sometimes as large as those used in ships. Even the uniforms>used by the first aviators were very similar to those used by>seamen.>The current yoke was derived from the wheel.>The advantage of a large yoke, is leverage. Without hydraulics, many large aircraft needed the leverage of a yoke in addition to different forms of trim tabs which would in turn, control the larger control surface.

If you are just getting one get a joystick for sure. It