AirBen

Interesting. What's the difference between the two from the user's perspective? Does only the one that physically moves the yoke relieve the back/forward pressure? It sounds like the trim that moves the yoke may just be superimposing a "pseudo trim" onto their control inputs to the sim, so that you're not actually trimming the aircraft in the sim but applying a bias to the yoke's pitch axis instead? P.S. I like the CP Air vertical fin avatar. That company and Canadian Airlines that it eventually merged into was great. They had a culture of finding ways to get things done correctly with often very limited resources. It was a shame when they merged with Big Red.

Thanks for the response. Much appreciated! I have two follow up questions though: 1. What happens on the Brunner yoke if you use a mouse to turn the trim wheel in the MSFS cockpit? Do you get the proper response in the Brunner yoke (e.g. it works the same as if you pressed the trim switches on the yoke), or does everything just go out of whack? 2. Do you see the trim wheel move in the MSFS cockpit when you click on the elevator trim switch on the yoke?

I should add that I am able to read the current trim setting in MSFS using Spad.next's interface to the SimConnect DLL and then output that over serial. I have an Arduino then read the serial data and move a linear actuator in response to those trim changes in the sim. I had thought about making a tray in which to mount my yoke so that the yoke would move to relieve the pitch force as you trim nose up/down, but that feels a bit "Rube-Goldberg". The tidier solution would be to just buy a Brunner yoke...

Sounds like many here are having good success with the Brunner yoke in X plane. What about in MSFS? Does it utilize SimConnect for the FFB? I've also seen very little about the trim? Sure it works if you trim using the switches on the yoke, but what if you were to trim using a 3rd party trim wheel, like on the Honeycomb Bravo quadrant? Do those trim changes get fed back to the Brunner yoke in MSFS2020 via the SimConnect dll?