My 16 year old son wanted the Velocity One Yoke, so I bought it for him.
We quickly found the sticky issue with Yoke when pulling and pushing it.
We bought a 3d printer file from Etsy and got someone from Fivr to print it for us, but it didn’t resolve the issue, did reduce it.
So my son wanted to design his own version, so I funded him a 3d printer and setup and after dozens of variations he cracked it. It’s not 100% smooth, but we would say around 70-90% improvement.
After some encouragement, I set up a Etsy shop for him to sell and he’s already had 4, 5 ***** reviews.
My problem with the VelocityOne Yoke is a little different. It is stuck in the Full Left Deflection. I have tried to restart the flight, and it doesn’t help. I’ve gone into the controls settings and made sure the yoke is configured properly. Please see attached screen shots. Any ideas are encouraged. Thank you.
It’s strange. It works just fine in FSX, but it goes to Full Left in MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024. I’ve already contacted Turtle Bay, they recommended I recalibrate the yoke, which I did. The input mode is something I just thought about. Perhaps there is something wrong with that. Hard to tell.
Found it! Microsoft helped. It was some kind of bug in a saved profile. They walked me through how to reset it and now I’m going through re-programming my sim yoke button by button
I’ve had the ‘other one’ for a few years and the idea is sound. I’d take the 4 stabilizers if I had to choose now. I saw it on etsy not too long ago. I like the larger guide wheels with R/C type bearings too and simple/fully captured nuts in the hardware, easy peasy.
For the V1, in 2020(where you can see the actual movement 2024 is broken) you will see that if you very gently let off pressure from back elevator, the controller will not 100% zero(in flight you move the controls around a lot more gently versus ‘testing’ it in the sensitivity screen). Now it will sit at ~3% or so back elevator, and if you even breathe on it it will finally zero. It does not do this with down/forward elevator. It’s the sponge pads in the middle.
Set a ~5% dead zone and move ‘zero’ all to back elevator from neutral. This way when you relax something like a climb and trim the aircraft, then touch the controls again(where it zeros out) you don’t find yourself chasing trim yet again. Sometimes it messes with AP too if you engage and it’s sitting that little bit off center.
