Enjoyment increase with yoke vs stick (for yoke r/w airplanes)?

[TracyQ 2]

I know how much better it became when I purchased some rudder pedals to replace my twisty stick,  I'm wondering if someone can tell me how much going from a stick,  in GA a/c such as Cessnas,  Pipers, etc,  to a yoke (thinking of Saitek) would increase the enjoyment?   I realize this is subjective,  of course.

 

I would just say that my enjoyment with pedals vs. twisty stick has to be at least 95% better,  I cannot imagine flying without pedals now.   It's that much better!

 

Would I, do you think,  enjoy a similar jump in enjoyment with a yoke vs a stick?  Or not so much?

 

 

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[Captain Kevin 586]

I know how much better it became when I purchased some rudder pedals to replace my twisty stick,  I'm wondering if someone can tell me how much going from a stick,  in GA a/c such as Cessnas,  Pipers, etc,  to a yoke (thinking of Saitek) would increase the enjoyment?   I realize this is subjective,  of course.

 

I would just say that my enjoyment with pedals vs. twisty stick has to be at least 95% better,  I cannot imagine flying without pedals now.   It's that much better!

 

Would I, do you think,  enjoy a similar jump in enjoyment with a yoke vs a stick?  Or not so much?

As you acknowledge, that's subjective, so it's hard for us to tell you what you'd enjoy. I think it really depends on what you fly, too. A yoke wouldn't be too realistic for a helicopter or an Airbus, for instance. I fly the Boeing jets, and if I had the space....and the money....for a yoke and pedals, I'd get them.

[zmak 331]

I will stay with my force feedback stick until there is an affordable FFB yoke available

[jaguara5 1]

I went from a simple thrustmaster universal challenge joystick to the ACE 737 flight yoke (i fly exclusively the pmdg 737ngx).

Different universes. Can't comment on the saitek yoke.

[G550flyer 1,010]

Going from stick to yoke was night and day for me. I also fly real world so a yoke was normal for me. Get a good yoke like a PFC or so yoke. For me, the PFC  yoke gave me the rigidness and smoothness a little closer to what I'm used too.

[tttocs 301]

I would expect the change to be far, far less than what you got when you added pedals - assuming yoke and stick are of equal quality.  Like Rick above, all my RW flying experience is in planes with yokes, so purchasing a yoke was a high priority for me, but if you have no point of reference either should work well for you.

 

Scott

[Jetblst 23]

I fly RW as well and I had been using the Saitek X52 twisty.  Here is the odd thing.  I have the Yoke but no peddals.  LOL  I fly a lot of automation in RW so I do in the sim world too.  The peddals were not and still are not a high priority for me.  Now with the yoke I see where it is getting to be though.  

 

I will be getting peddals.  If I were you, I would get the yoke.  I just got mine for fathers day and love it!  If you get the Saitek yoke you can get extra knobs for the throttles from Madcatz as well.

 

Also if you are FSUIPC savy, what you can do is download the current driver and software from Madcatz (Saitek) and you can no make use of the mode switch, which tripples what you can assign to all the buttons.  With FSUIPC you can make even more use of buttons etc via mouse macros.  (Mouse Macros simply trap what you do with a switch, after you name it, FSUIPC stores that new command in the same place all the other controls commands are).  

 

Add that all up and you now can assign up to about 6 commands to 1 switch on your controller if you do it right.  

 

Good luck.