Considering this PFC console. Anyone using it? Are there any problems with it working with addon aircraft, or other issues?

 

Thanks in advance.

Rick

Certainly a superb looking piece of kit. I was looking at this last year as part of a major upgrade to my hardware but decided not to follow through at the time. I'll be keen to hear your updates

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have been thinking about it too, looks awesome!!

Update. Bought it. Installed it. Love it! great service from the company including any request for tech support.

Great news!  What does the yoke feel like?  Are you able to provide some pics? 

 

Are you US or EU based?

Here is my simpit as of two days ago. The yoke and throttle quadrants are "sooo smooooth" and precise it is absolutely amazing. It has changed the way that I fly. Great displacement on both airleon and elevator axis and resistance that makes it feel like the AC is connected. My old saitek yoke served me well for years but is not in  the same league at all. My next upgrade will be a new computer, when the next chips sets, CPUs, motherboards and videoo  cards are released and I then move to P3D. That will obviously be a few months away. The collective on the lower left, made using a Saitek throttle quadrant has yet to be tested. Thank God for a loving wife! 

 

 

The next hardware controls upgades are likely to be a collective and cyclic, and eventually HOTAS, probably Thrustmaster A10. Gtta love a late "mid life crisis". Flying in ORBX, with real weather and great planes from a variety of sources.

 

ErichB, I am a retired soldier, 40 years of service, living in a suburb of Ottawa, Canada. Getting items from PFC is expensive, including shipping and taxes, but man the product is good! There service is also great.

The new "action" inside the most recent PFC yokes is excellent - absolutely no catching and grabbing in the elevator axis that is common with their older yokes, and those from other manufacturers.  If you can afford it - it will serve you for years.

Can you move the heading bug turning one of the knobs?

What about OBS, can you move the OBS?

 

I already have the yoke, great investment, makes for a different experience.

I want to buy the RIC console with the knobs so I can turn the OBS, heading bug, select different VORs, how does it works for you? 

I have used the hdg bug and it works well. I have not used the other knobs for OBS etc but suspect that they would be equally as effective, so I would recommend the RIC console. Expensive but I have not regretted it one bit!

 

Rick

Great setup you have there Paddler!   I've been considering the PFC stuff, and wonder if it has a hat switch, and if not, what do you use?

I bought the PFC Beech Yoke and Throttle quadrant.  Still waiting for it to arrive.  I'm not too concerned with a hat switch as I have Track IR, I believe it does have one.

 

I'd love the console, but I've exhasted my flightsim funds.

I was wondering how the trim control worked on the PFC units.  The Saab Yoke says there is a trim switch (or button) on the yoke.....is this something other than just a user programmed button to trim up and trim down?

Sorry, been away for a while.

 

Great setup you have there Paddler!   I've been considering the PFC stuff, and wonder if it has a hat switch, and if not, what do you use?

No hat switch but I don't miss it as I use TrackIR Pro which is great.

 

 

I was wondering how the trim control worked on the PFC units.  The Saab Yoke says there is a trim switch (or button) on the yoke.....is this something other than just a user programmed button to trim up and trim down?

I use both the trim rocker switch on the yoke (programmed at factory) and the wheel trim on the console and they work well. I use the yoke trim for gross trim initially and the trim wheel on the console for fine tuning and in flight adjustments. I am not sure if you could use FSUIPC to reassign this yoke trim or not but I will leave it as is).

 

Still absolutely taken with the console!

 

Glad to answer any other questions.

 

Rick

Thanks Paddler,

 

With the rocker switch being "programmed at the factory" does it matter what it is being used with FSX, P3D, XPX, etc?  ie is it just sending the character for trim up or trim down or does it just "add to or subtract from" the center value of the elevator axis.  This is more of a curiosity than anything

Thanks Paddler,

 

With the rocker switch being "programmed at the factory" does it matter what it is being used with FSX, P3D, XPX, etc?  ie is it just sending the character for trim up or trim down or does it just "add to or subtract from" the center value of the elevator axis.  This is more of a curiosity than anything

 

BrettT,

The PFC console is, I understand, using a FSUIPC interface specific to PFC to program the buttons and switches including the trim functions. I am not technically competent to understand how Pete's program accomplishes its magic. I am just so pleased that he has produced FSUIPC and continues to improve it. So I would beleive that it will work with those three programs without a problem.

 

Rick