I have had my CH PRODUCTS flight yoke for over a year now. It has held up great. I use it for about 5 hours a week. It has really made a nice piece to my collection for simulated flight.

The title says it all. It worked on my laptop and Homesystem with FlightGear, out of the box. Running Fedora 9 on both systems. Like many others, I had to cut a spacer to get the mounting clamps to work. I haven't had any reason to curse the Yoke, just my skill at flying. No dead zone that I can find, the springs ping from time to time. Glad I bought it.

I bought the CH Yoke and Rudder pedals for use with Microsoft Flight Sim 2006. Its great for instrument flying training. They were easy to setup and calibrate. Unfortunately I had to buy them from another store because Amazon does not offer these to buyers who reside in Australia, but that's ok its there loss.

I'd recommend these to those people who want to understand flight or are serious about learning to fly aircraft. Simulator training at home is excellent. I would buy both the Yoke and the Rudder Pedals together and not just the Yoke separately.

After fighting FS2004 and FSX with my Saitek x45 for more than 2 years, I finally broke down and bought the CH Yoke and Pedals. Now I wonder how I ever managed without them. Controlling is so much more realistic and easy. After a few minutes of flying around, I am nailing turns without losing altitude, shooting great landings and just enjoying the crap out of myself. Both units work flawlessly and were set up in about 3 minutes. If you're running XP, don't bother with the drivers. Just go into FSX and set you sensitivities and map/remap your buttons. Highly recommended.

Using the Flight Sim Yoke makes Flight Sim much more realistic. I have used Flight Sim with keyboard controls, ugh, and a joystick, not quite so bad. The yoke makes responds to the program much better.