I've had the Precision flight control yoke and quadrent for about 10 years now . Never had any problems, just a couple times the springs broke along the way they sent me new ones i put them in and all was good. But yesterday i came home from being away for 2 weeks working, turned on the sim and the Yoke won't work , in fact it wont even show up in the sim if you want to calibrate it . It's not even there but my Saitek rudder pedals are but not the yoke. In the PFC set up in FSx when you go to ADDONS i done a check on start up it says every thing is OK . . I unplugged and plugged the USB back in and says it doesnt reconize it. Totally lost on what the heck happened.

If i had your e-mail id send you all the pictures that i sent PFC today to the tech department but haven heard back. I just tried and PFC is not even there, how did it just disappear ?

If it is a serial yoke, make sure that you have an active COM port assigned to it. How is it connected?

Is it connected via your throttle quadrant. If it is you should be able to see the configurator when FSX starts. If you have it setup to perform a check to make sure that all devices are connected it will run a diagnostic. However, it should also tell you in the configuration window which COM port is being used. Id it says none, see if you have options of COM 2, 3, or 4 available.

 

If your COM port is not available, go into your system manager, and see if there is a conflict of some sort regarding your serial/com ports.

 

This is where I would start.

This is the best way so you can see is put the pictures but they only show up and 1/2 the picture so i took them out . I never did any thing , went to work , came back 2 weeks later turned it on went to fly and no Yoke. Ya it shows Com 4 and my quadrent is serial but my Yoke is usb. The throttle quadrent' s work fine .

The PFC USB devices sometimes have a tendency to not be recognized since the yokes and rudders especially are not powered. For starters, disconnect the Yoke from the port that t is connected to (wait a few seconds) and then plug it back in. If the computer still does not recognize it, try another USB port (and see what the response is). If these attempts fail, try a powered USB hub (that is if you are not using one already. If you are then you may have a hub that has failed or beginning show signs of failing if it is still working to some extent, the same would apply if you are using a regular USB port at the back/front of your PC.

 

The last resort may be to have the board in your yoke checked /replaced, although I have never had a board failure.

If i had your e-mail i would send you a stack of pictures and you'd really see what 's going on. I did every thing you said this morning and i'm down to a bad board or what ever in side the yoke.

Do you have another computer that you can probably test the yoke on?

Hi,

 

Sounds like the yoke's controller board went bad. It happened to me about a year ago, although I have a jetliner column yoke from PFC not the yoke your using. Since PFC updated/changed the controller board they now use on their yokes, I had to send my unit back to them so it could be rewired to accept the new type controller board.

 

It was an expensive overhaul.

 

Since it sounds like your yoke is just about as old as mine, you may need to have the unit rewired IF the controller board went bad. If your going to have this done by PFC, you'd be better off doing a complete overhaul, change the pots, rocker switches and push buttons, you'll once again have a brand new yoke.

It sounds like a failed panel. I had this on my 12 year old console some years ago. Pfc supplied the replacement panel and I di the install. Returning the console was unthinkable - too large and too heavy.

 

The only physical sign of where the failure occurred was around the pointy where the power enters the circuit. This picture shows what I mean. That replacement was fiddly and not for the fainthearted. I had the seperate yoke before the full console and serviced the springs a few times. As I recall, the panel is simpler and probably much less daunting to fit.

 

 

 

 

I took about 8 pictueres of all screen pop ups and sent them to the Teck department at PFC in California and they asked me to take a picture of the board cause like all of you they think it's a bad board also . I think i'm gonna pack this thing up and send it down there from Canada here and have them over haul the whole works like you say Mike . I also broke a few spring s alnong the way , they sent me new ones and replaced it