Hello FSers. I am newbie to the Microsoft world of flight sims (coming over from another sim). I am having a problem getting my CH Yoke to work the way I feel is correct. Mainly the sensitivity of the elevator. I can barley fly the 172 by hand. She seems WAY to sensitive. All it takes is the smallest amount of back pressure and she is nose up with the stall horn blairing. I have FS2004 with the latest patch. No 3rd party addons installed (yet). I have played around with the sensitivity settings and they seem to only help a VERY small amount. I read the PowerPoint slide on CH's web site but that didn't help. I have everything working in the other sim so I don't think it is the hardware. I'm pretty sure a nice new 172 is not that responsive. I have done some real world flying in an older 172... Can anyone provide any assistance.Coming from my old sim, I am really impressed with the ATC. Hope to get back on VATSIM someday.

The problem is trying to model an amount of motion to something that would be normally be related to pressure in a plane. In a real plane, the amount of pressure would be directly related to trim. If it's trimmed pretty well, a little tug will handle most of what you want to get the plane to do. In FS, it's a lot tougher to feel when you're out of trim. To further complicate things, it's more difficult to be smooth with pitch with a yoke...'stiction' becomes a factor like it does in strut suspensions in cars.With a joystick, the springs are pulling toward center. The springs in a yoke are trying to do the same thing, but friction within the yoke doesn't allow them to be especially smooth. When you release the yoke, it won't center in exactly the same place in pitch. A joystick will center consistently no matter how far you move it from center.To combat this, you can try to scale the center area in pitch down, so there's less sensitivity there and keep an eye on trim so larger movements aren't necessary. If you're trimmed for your speed, chances are that pulling or pushing a 1/4" will be plenty for most situations. If you're out of trim, you might need to pull an inch or so and the inherent friction becomes more of a problem. You can pull too much and get more of a reaction than you wanted. Then when you let go, the yoke doesn't center...lather rinse repeat. It feels too sensitive in pitch.

Think the solution lies in the calibration of the controller. Either use the payware version of FSUIPC (which does a lot more things other than calibration of controllers) or use the CH Manager software to recalibrate. Allcott

Have you tried silicone spray on the shaft? Works for me and keeps everything smooth.

Thanks for all the help. I will try the CH software and give it a little spray.