I have been struggling with how to create a cheap home made steering tiller for a while now.  While cleaning out the closet I found my old Saitek throttle unit and started thinking of how I could use it as a tiller.

15 minutes of brainstorming, flip it sideways, add one fishing rod handle later and tada...  I will finish it off, paint it, lose the unused Axis handles and find a way to mount it but I already tested with FSUIPC and it is absolutely brilliant.  Works exactly as I would have expected.

 

Some pics...

 

 

 

Paul,

 

What a wonderful simple, cost effective solution. Thanks for sharing  B)

 

Regards,

 

 

Ted.

Thanks so much Ted, my pleasure!  Seems anyone can have a steering tiller now for the price of a spare throttle unit

Gotta a spare one you can send me, lol. Love how you painted your yoke Boeing colors.

 

 

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What's the setting in fsuipc for it please.

 

 

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What's the setting in fsuipc for it please.

 

 

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Delete all settings in FS for that throttle unit.  Go into FSUIPC and button and axis assignment first.  Press rescan in FSUIPC and move the axis you want to assign to the steering tiller.  Select send direct to fsuipc as your option and select steering tiller.  Then go to joystick calibration and find steering tiller.  set it up like any other axis in FSUIPC and you are all set.  

Personally I love it!

Great idea!  I'm all for using the saitek hardware in unexpected ways. :lol:

Good idea I may use this in my 777 cockpit build.