CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB (200-615)

Brand: CH Products Flight Sim Yoke

CH Products has been assembling controllers in California since the 1980s, and the Flight Sim Yoke, part number 200 615, is the survivor of that era. It is compact, screws or clamps to a desk, carries a throttle lever on the base, a hat switch and buttons on the handles, all programmable through CH Control Manager. Sensors are potentiometers, the body is light, and the design has barely changed in two decades.

The appeal is size, price and the fact that these units keep working for years, which is why they still turn up in older training rigs. Rotation range is short by current standards, the plastic looks dated, and there is no trim wheel, no separate quadrant and no console support. Control Manager allows deep macro work but its interface is from another age.