I've been busy of late upgrading my flight sim rig.  I had a catastrophic C:\ drive failure which resulted in getting a better motherboard & cpu from my youngest son. I also had to upgrade the ram to ddr4. Added a 2tb ssd for c:\ drive.  Full pc specs in my sig. Once I got it up and running, then came the reinstall of a lot of items and finally testing and started flying again. 

However, I kept looking at the Honeycomb Alpha yoke. My last yoke was the CH Products Yoke with the 9 or so pin game style plug that connected to the old sound cards (sound blaster & turtle beach). I've been using joystick/HOTAS style hardware for many years and wanted to get a yoke again for better small control inputs and felt they help with flare on landings, at least for me.  Anyway, I got the Alpha and have been so pleased that I decided I needed the Bravo TQ to make my enjoyment even greater.  Boy did it!  Two of the best purchases I've made in all my 40 flight simming years.  

So, I thought I'd show my fellow XP12 pilots a shot of my flight sim setup, not the greatest but not the least either, and the main thing - it gets the job done well enough for me:

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Congratulations @beechcaptain !!!! That setup looks really Great !  Professional !!!

I hope you can get the very Best from it 👍

15 hours ago, beechcaptain said:

I've been busy of late upgrading my flight sim rig.  I had a catastrophic C:\ drive failure which resulted in getting a better motherboard & cpu from my youngest son. I also had to upgrade the ram to ddr4. Added a 2tb ssd for c:\ drive.  Full pc specs in my sig. Once I got it up and running, then came the reinstall of a lot of items and finally testing and started flying again. 

However, I kept looking at the Honeycomb Alpha yoke. My last yoke was the CH Products Yoke with the 9 or so pin game style plug that connected to the old sound cards (sound blaster & turtle beach). I've been using joystick/HOTAS style hardware for many years and wanted to get a yoke again for better small control inputs and felt they help with flare on landings, at least for me.  Anyway, I got the Alpha and have been so pleased that I decided I needed the Bravo TQ to make my enjoyment even greater.  Boy did it!  Two of the best purchases I've made in all my 40 flight simming years.  

So, I thought I'd show my fellow XP12 pilots a shot of my flight sim setup, not the greatest but not the least either, and the main thing - it gets the job done well enough for me:

Looks good. I see a Honeycomb Charlie in your future.

So I'm not the only one using the yoke with the Airbus 😊

43 minutes ago, alanw2005 said:

Looks good. I see a Honeycomb Charlie in your future.

Well, that would be sometime way down the road.  My Thrustmaster pedals are working fine. I changed to heavier tension springs for better feel/control, so hopefully it will last a long time. 😉

 

1 minute ago, efis007 said:

So I'm not the only one using the yoke with the Airbus 😊

Nope. I was using the Thrustmaster T16000M but wanted the yoke and it works just as well, maybe a tad better with the buses, imho. That's my take anyway.

23 hours ago, beechcaptain said:

Well, that would be sometime way down the road.  My Thrustmaster pedals are working fine. I changed to heavier tension springs for better feel/control, so hopefully it will last a long time. 😉

 

The issue with the Thrustmaster pedals is that they use cheap potentiometers. These potentiometers get janky when they get dirty from dust or wear out.

The Honeycomb Charlies as do the Turtle Beach pedals, use contactless, high resolution, hall effect sensors that never wear out and are super precise.

If you find your thrustmasters acting funny and making the plane hard to control with dead spots or over corrections or sluggish response, you can use this guide to fix it:
 

 

Edited June 26, 2025Jun 26 by alanw2005

If the TWCS exhibits a jittery signal in X-Plane, its potentimeter also needs cleaning. I did this some time ago using the video below and it improved signal quality enough for use as a helicopter collective. Note that the potentiometer casing's latches are a giant PITA to open. I think I only managed to do it with a portion of luck.

 

 

How big is the big monitor and what kind?

Thanks

Jim

CYWG

9 hours ago, jagabom said:

How big is the big monitor and what kind?

Thanks

Jim

CYWG

32" Samsung LED tv. 

Smaller one is a 24" ACER monitor that I use for my procedures/checklists, ActiveSky XP12, smartCARS3 and any other necessary apps for quick access/viewing.

 

Hi,

I'll be updating my monitors soon, the new ones must have glare control, that's a must.