Thrustmaster TCA Pendular Yoke Boeing Edition for Xbox & PC TM-4460209

Awesome control when landing any aircraft. Feels good and seems well made.

It took quite a while, but we finally have, in the PC based flight simulation community, an exceptionally realistic simulacrum of a Boeing jet airliner yoke. And without having to raid the aviation boneyard in Arizona to liberate it from a derelict real-life Boeing! Thrustmaster's TCA Boeing Edition flight stick (actually, a YOKE, thank you very much!) is the closest your hands can come to wrapping themselves around 300,000 plus pounds of hot screaming metal. The yoke is an essentially full sized replica of a 787 yoke, with the one exception being the switch grouping is on both sides of the yoke, whereas the originals only have switches on the outer handle. Very ingeniously, Thrustmaster has created something of the illusion of having the yoke on the upper end of a ... MoreIt took quite a while, but we finally have, in the PC based flight simulation community, an exceptionally realistic simulacrum of a Boeing jet airliner yoke. And without having to raid the aviation boneyard in Arizona to liberate it from a derelict real-life Boeing! Thrustmaster's TCA Boeing Edition flight stick (actually, a YOKE, thank you very much!) is the closest your hands can come to wrapping themselves around 300,000 plus pounds of hot screaming metal. The yoke is an essentially full sized replica of a 787 yoke, with the one exception being the switch grouping is on both sides of the yoke, whereas the originals only have switches on the outer handle. Very ingeniously, Thrustmaster has created something of the illusion of having the yoke on the upper end of a control column, as on real airliners, as opposed to being mounted on a pipe that comes horizontally out of the instrument panel, as on most small planes. This pendular action provides another dimension of realism in the operation of this device, and puts it in a class all by itself for flying any heavy iron that uses a yoke (as opposed to flying a modern Airbus, which use side-sticks, a type of control input that Thrustmaster has also made available to the simulation community in a different, equally realistic, package).I spent over 30 years with one or another real Boeing yoke in my real-life hands, and I can vouch for the authenticity of the feel of this yoke. Of course, being spring loaded (with a variable number of springs, for varying the resistance), you will not get all of the real feel of flying a 777, or any of the other Boeing types, but this is as close as you can get without buying a complete FAA approved flight simulator. Which, by the way, would probably cost more than one of the real airplanes, at least if you got it out of the boneyard (and even 777's are in the boneyard these days!)Happy Landings