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CH Products continues to bring solid durability, realism and programmability to your fingertips the new CH Eclipse Yoke. With its three color LED mode selector, this newly designed yoke features programmable trim/scroll wheels with center push function, fingertip paddles for flight and racing sims, and numerous hats and buttons, the CH Eclipse offers 240 programmable functions with the CH Control Manager Software. From LA to Sydney, over torrential bodies of water and massive terrain, through farmlands and wetlands, the CH Flight Sim Yoke has been a constant companion in the countless journeys you have taken for many, many years. It is time to finally retire that indestructible co-pilot now and say hello to a new friend -- the CH Eclipse Yoke.Give your flight simulator an incredibly realistic feel with the CH Products Eclipse Flight Sim Yoke. Six analog 10-bit axes give you control of the aileron, elevator, throttle, propeller pitch, fuel mixture, and rudder. The yoke's ergonomic grips add comfort to your flights, while the non-binding floating shaft enables smooth, prece steering. With the help of the included software, you can program the yoke's many buttons and fingertip paddles with up to 240 functions. The Eclipse Yoke mounts easily with the integrated desk clamps, and connection is a breeze with the included seven-foot USB cable.
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Featuring many of the buttons and switches you'd find in an actual cockpit, the Eclipse Flight Sim Yoke greatly enhances flight simulator programs. Six analog 10-bit axes give you control over aileron, elevator, propeller pitch, fuel mixture, throttle, and rudder movement, and the colored handles for throttle, prop, and mixture let you fly with confidence.
The Eclipse also features a programmable trim/scroll wheel with a center push function, an eight-way POV hat and rocker switch on the left and right sides of the grip, and a three-color LED selector dial. Adding to the yoke's authenticity are two backlit pusher buttons, a traditional push button, two two-way flipper switches on the base, and two traditional push buttons on the back of each grip. The fully programmable fingertip paddles work with both flight and driving simulators, and the free-floating, non-binding shaft enables smooth movement for added control.
Quick, Easy Setup
Thanks to the included seven-foot USB cord and integrated desk clamps, you can position the Eclipse wherever it is most comfortable and convenient. There are no drivers to download or install, and you can set up the rockers and switches up to 240 different ways with the included Control Manager software, which is compatible with both Mac and PC operating systems.
Solid Construction For Years Of Enjoyment
Your Eclipse Flight Sim Yoke is constructed of quality industrial components, with a large sturdy base that keeps it firmly in place during flight simulations. Also, the Eclipse can be clamped to any desk or table from 3/4 inch to two inches thick.
The CH Products Eclipse Flight Sim Yoke is backed by a two-year limited warranty.
What's in the Box
CH Products Eclipse Flight Sim Yoke, Control Manager software, and seven-foot USB cable.
Technical Details
- Flight simulator yoke features 6 analog 10-bit axes of movement and control- 240 programmable functions with included software
- Plug-and-play installation with 7' USB cord
- Compatible with Mac and PC
- Backed by a 2-year limited warranty
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By Rick Ulbrich (Winfield,Kansas)
I have used the previous CH Products Yoke with the 3 grey colored handles for about 5 or 6 years now. I have been a licensed Private Pilot since 1978 but due to the high cost to rent a 172 over the years, got into Flight Simulator back in the days of ATP by Sublogic and still have MSFS Dos 5.0 version tucked away in the closet.
My wife gave me the Saitek Yoke for Christmas this year and even though I had read the reviews about sticky movement in both pitch and roll, I had high hopes but it soon became apparent that I could no longer squeak in my landing with just tire roll, no squawk sounds on touch down. I will not go into the problems with the Saitek Yoke here but let me just say, that I do not see how anyone can do any serious flying with this product?
The old CH Products still works fine but has a lot of hours on it but compared to the Saitek, it is as smooth as silk! I called and talked to Debby McDowell to see if she thought the new Eclipse was really a better built product than the previous one and she assured me that she honestly believed it to be a more robust unit with new features that she thought made it stand out from the older unit. I decided to order one and low and behold, when it arrived, I looked high and low but the mounting screws and clamps were not in the box. This did not really present a big problem but it was a let down with reference to someone in Quality Control failed to do their job. Okay, every one can have a bad day but the good news is the mounting hardware from the old one works just fine and Debbie overnighted me the missing hardware the next day after sending her a late night email.
The new yoke does have a more robust feel to it and again just like the old one, it has the feel of being back in a 172. I like the new black color and the new colored handle knobs are a big plus for throttle, prop and mixture. This is a good match for the 1978 Carneado Cessna 182Q as this is my favorite aircraft for flying around the home turf in FSX. I spent 21 years as the Avionics Department Manager for Aircraft Radio Corp. ( ARC ) and have worked on just about every piece of avionics equipment you will find in this cockpit in my years as a bench tech and then later as the ARC Tech support question and answer guy.
The new yoke is smooth as can be and makes the 182 fly and feel like you are in the real thing, I am still using my old CH products Rudder Pedals that have the same feel and response since new, back when we purchased the original yoke. I love the new trim wheels for pitch and roll with real detent action and a center pushbutton function in the trim wheels. The new thumb paddles are a nice addition if you get tired of holding your feet on the rudder pedals for those long cross country flights. The dual hat switches are a nice addition as well however the right hand hat switch can only be used as a four positon POV since I can not get FSX to see 2 switches closed as the same time to make it pan up and to the right for instance. You can use it to pan up, down, left and right which is okay, I am just used to it being on the right. The left switch works as a true 8 pos pov hat switch. If you download the Control Manager software, you can assign the right hand switch to be the 8 pos pov but I have not been able to do it inside FSX. FSX will not let you reassign the left switch to any other function so get used to using the left one. If you have Track IR, which I do, who cares anyway?
A note about the CH manager software, if you do install it, and even if you are not using it, be warned that it takes over the calibration functions from Windows 7. I was flying the Section F8 F86 Sabre in FS 2004 and for some reason, it wanted to fly with the right wing down slightly, even with the AP engaged, it still had a problem. I took a look at the CH Yoke in devices on W7 and when I right clicked on properties, it informed me that Control Manager had control of the yoke and then I remembered from in the past when using this software, that you had to calibrate the yoke from within this software. Sure enough, when I looked at the yoke in the calibration part of Control Manager, roll was not centered. After calibrating the yoke with this software, the wing dip problem was gone and we were back to straight and level flight again.
The only thing I can say that I have a question about is why did CH Products Engineers not light the center bottom pushbutton switch? The left and right ones glow red but the middle button is dark? I wonder who won the battle and why on this one? It could not have been Engineering since we do not make mistakes, so it must have been a Sales call? This is who we are taught to blame when you are an Engineer, oh well, no big deal but a pretty Blue light would have looked nice here! Hey Engineering, you can always do an Engineering Change Order as a product improvement, I have seen many of these pass over my desk when with ( ARC ), there were only 24 mods issued to the ARC 400B autopilot system over the years and only a couple might have been mandatory with the rest being passed off as Product Improvements, give me a break here!
In the end, if you want the smoothest yoke you can get for the money with a lot of really nice features that really add to the realistic aspect of flight then this is the yoke to buy. No push thru annoying detents or sticking problems of any kind. Okay Okay, my Saitek yoke is just totally unuseable for my flying but I am not totally against this company, Their throttle quadrant works well and I had to buy a USB version to stick beside the Eclipse Yoke. I also have the Radio control panel, Autopilot control panel and Switch Panel along with a Buttkicker on my High backed leather office chair all hooked up to a i7 950 oc to 3.806 GHZ on liquid cooling and a EVGA GTX 285 in the X16 slot hooked to one 22 inch Acer Lcd and a 17 inch Lcd for the GPS display. The other 22 inch Acer monitor is tied to a MSI 9800GT card in the X8 slot on the EVGA X58 SLI Le mother board. I have found that this setup gives the best stutter free video when low and lots of ground based scenery from UTX with spot plane mode on the 2nd 22 incher and Virtual cockpit mode on the other Acer connected to the GTX 285. This is not a SLI setup since FSX does not benefit from the SLI Bridge but it does work better with 2 video cards and each of them tied to separate monitors. This does not seem to load the Dual head from the GTX 285 as bad and the PCIE bus still has the bandwith to drive both video cards with out being saturated. I threw in the 17 incher for the gps since it was sitting here doing nothing and the GTX 285 likes this a lot better than dual 22 inchers. Okay I got off the subject. But with all of this stuff and CH Products for the main controls and you have your self a heck of a simulator. It did not all happen over night but we are there! It just keeps slowly getting a little better but at the same time, I am getting older as well. I guess it is good to have your hobbie almost there at around the same time your body starts giving you the can't do what we used to do stuff. I also have been a Ham Radio Operator since the age of 18, some 34 years now. Time really flys when you are having fun! Okay we are done and done now! Please forgive me for any typing or spelling errors, my fingers do not do what I am thinking some of the time and I am a Engineer type not a English Major? College was years ago!
By Old Kraut (Virginia, US of A)
Installation a snap - solid - easy to fine tune and very well built. Only thing I can think of to make it even better would be to add some "force-feed-back".
By P. nowlin (usa)
this product is everything that CH products says it is. The equipment performs as advertised. i would recommend it highly.
By Gregg (Boston, MA)
As a real world pilot using Microsoft Flight Simulator to practice instrument flying techniques I was frustrated with the lack of realism that a joystick provided, while the CH Eclipse yoke provides outstanding realism. The yoke feels very similar to the yoke in my aircraft and my simulator performance is far more accurate than with a joystick. The Eclipse yoke has many extra buttons/switches that can be assigned directly from within the simulation software or using the CH programing software. Most importantly for instrument flight the dual trim wheels are well worth the cost increase over the basic CH Yoke (link below). They have a full range of travel and approximate the real thing very well. No drivers required means no driver problems....truly plug and play!
CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB ( 200-615 )
By Martin L. Davis II (Neosho, MO United States)
I bought and used an earlier version of the CH Yoke (the CH Yoke LE as it was called) a few years ago. The old yoke had only a throttle axis and lacked the new "thumb" rudder axis and front handle buttons. Advertising for the CH Eclipse Yoke claims a better shaft. I don't notice much difference in shaft friction or smoothness, but I never had problems with the original version, either. My original Yoke LE failed when the in/out elevator axis failed, so hopefully this version, which is more expensive, will last another 6 years or longer. The yoke shaft still seems to be a hard molded plastic so perhaps only the shaft bearing material is upgraded. Desktop mounting remains unchanged from the LE version with adequate spacers to accommodate most any surface.
I use the yoke for Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane, not for driving games. I also own the CH Pro Throttle and Pro Pedals, so some of the controls on the Eclipse yoke are not being used in my setup. The yoke could be set up with a throttle axis and rudder axis, but these are being disabled on the yoke on my setup to avoid potential "crosstalk" between the yoke and the other controllers. I have also not found logical uses for some of the remaining buttons, which have not yet been assigned a function.
There are six available axis: elevator, ailerons and rudder (yoke handle), and the throttle, mixture and prop (levers on the top right). In addition, on top of the ends of the handles there are two hat switches, two rocker switches (both now are horizontal position) and two buttons. There are two "flip" switches on the body below the three lever axis. On the front of the yoke are three buttons (two with lighted LEDs), two thumbwheel-type switches, and a 3-position knob with green/yellow/red LEDs to indicate position. In other words, there are far more buttons available than I can find uses for. The LEDs on the yoke front remain brightly lit at all times unless the power supply switch on your computer is turned off or the yoke is unplugged from the port.
If you install the Control Manager software, CH claims 240 programmable functions. Apparently the 3-way switch is used to switch sets of functions (80 to a set). For flight simulator, I can't find sufficient uses for one available set, so I can't imagine what anyone would need the other two sets for unless it would be to program each set for a different type of aircraft (moving from single engine prop to commercial jet for example).
I use two of the axis levers for mixture/fuel and prop control, with one disabled in favor of my separate Pro Throttle. I have disabled the thumb rudder on the yoke in favor of my Pro Pedals. Both hat switches are used, one for glance and one for slow pan. The yoke handle buttons are set for braking. The two thumbwheel switches are elevator and rudder trim. The two flip switches are for flaps and gear. I have programmed the front buttons for overhead view (seeing position on runways and taxiways) and GPS. The remaining available buttons remain unprogrammed until I find a suitable reason to include them, so basically the yoke has far more buttons than most flight sim pilots will ever use.
Installation was made with Win7 64-bit and was nothing more than plugging the yoke into the USB port. Win7 found the drivers automatically and identified the device correctly. I did not install the Control Manager software from CH (download available from their web site). The yoke works well with both FSX and X-Plane. The yoke shaft still seems to be a hard plastic.
In summary, time will determine the durability and bearing wear of the shaft which seems to be the point of contention among most simmers for the older versions of the yoke. I did consider the Saitek yoke but was unable to find one to examine and went back to CH Products to maintain compatibility with my other controllers. So far so good. There are far more functions on this yoke than anyone can reasonably be expected to use and remember.
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