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Offline EHM-1997 Alexander

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My 737 Yoke arrived from Canada today
« on: August 20, 2011, 11:14:07 am »
Some couple of months ago I ordered from Aircraft Controls Engineering in Canada one of their captain side pro beauts and it turned up today.

Feel is very good, love the checklist clipboard but now have to figure out how to arrange other controls to be able to access them properly as I have to space it from the desk much more than say a desk mount ch or saitek. Very pleased with it. The cost is about 1800 CAD inc 300 CAD shipping (comes in the solid crate (have a screwdriver to open) and when hitting the uk cost about £200 additional in import VAT. You have to be patient as it takes a while nefore one it shipped and then takes a while to be shipped - although you don't get the huge handling fee for clearing customs that you do through UPS and the like.

You can order this from other European suppliers, (who have imported it themselves for resale) but going direct to manufacturer saves about £200 - Can't complain at that. It's very well made and currently the best 737 replica yoke I found on the market. Total cost was about £1300

It's smaller than I expected, but matches actual 737 height from ground and feels great at that level. You will need to bolt/screw it down though - prob to a raised floor made for the purpose.

Only thing that may be better is the motorised revolution sim products one, but that wasn't available when I ordered this and would be correspondingly more expensive. I'm very happy with this yoke so far. You need a USB lead as one wasn't supplied - the USB A-B like Printers use. Additional stickers are supplied to replace those that are on the yoke in case of damage. Clipboard/checklist comes separate and you attach that yourself with the supplied pin.

Apologies for image quality - only had my phone available.




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Re: My 737 Yoke arrived from Canada today
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2011, 03:08:39 pm »
When you get a proper camera near it, I'm intrigued enough by the grainy phone camera shots to want to see proper photographs... Looks good from what can be seen though; you realise of course you'll need a chair with a yoke slot now :)
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Re: My 737 Yoke arrived from Canada today
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2011, 04:46:01 pm »
As much as I'd like actual seats, they are much lower on my priority list at the moment (considering price).

I'm caught between the MIP+Glareshield or the MCP+EFIS at the moment, but I got engaged recently and cleared out my funds for other cockpit parts on the ring :P So have to wait.

Tried the Webcam on lappy, which was just as bad as phone but some interesting shorts including the adjustable clipboard/checklist

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Re: My 737 Yoke arrived from Canada today
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2011, 10:21:56 am »
Quality's a lot better, much less chroma noise just for a start. Loving the cyan caste on the first shot ;D Interesting that it's missing the trip counter on the right handle (and also apparently the PTT button, unless they've put it somewhere else... that switch on the back of the right handle from the first shot mayhaps?)
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Re: My 737 Yoke arrived from Canada today
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 07:03:07 pm »
PTT key is on the left side, there's a switch both sides on the yoke. The right side one isn't indicated.

Aye shame about the missing trip counter, although this is blanked in the same way on the 747 yoke.
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Re: My 737 Yoke arrived from Canada today
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 10:01:51 pm »
Cool stuff, Alexander! Many happy nautical miles!  :D
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Re: My 737 Yoke arrived from Canada today
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2011, 01:02:52 pm »
Post deleted because the author is an idiot...  ;D

Looking at the RevSimPro yoke, it looks for all the world like the left thumb button is the A/P Disengage and a "trigger" on the right for PTT (hard to tell from the single picture). There's no mention of a left "trigger", nor pictures enough to see if there's such.
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