DIY 3D Printed Flight Yoke for 2020 Microsoft Flight Simulator 

Thanks for watching! For all the files, code, and a parts list for this project, check the description. Also, sorry about the audio issue.

Finally someone make a cheap flight Yoke system for 3D printing. A few notes from a private pilot: 1. On a real aircraft the two buttons on the Yoke are for A/P disengage and PTT. 2. The quadrant levers should be (from left to right)- Throttle (Black), propeller pitch control (Blue) and mixer (Red). 3. The brakes on a real aircraft are integrated in the rudder pedals (Press on each top to engage). Thank you for your hard work for the community!

Please don't forget to leveling the music with your voice. The music is exploding brains with headphone.

Mhmm yes, "Throttle, Flaps and Slats" Slats are usually used in bigger aircraft and automatically extend relative to the flap's position. What I suggest you to put those throttle levers for (if you still haven't but I'm sure you've done that already), from left to right, is: Throttle, usually IRL is painted in black Propeller Pitch/Angle...one of those for sure, painted in blue Mixture, painted in red. Another thing to note, in planes like the Cessna (where the yoke is most likely originated from). Since the 3 main things in aviation ("Aviate, Navigate, Communicate") are very crucial for flying in today's airspace, you would usually have those buttons for either the AP disengage or PPT (Push To Talk). But, then again, it's your preference. For all the aviators out there, 6:51 Vref hehe get it? xDD

Michael, excellent video. I have printed out the throttle quadrant and noticed 2 things you might already know. 1 there is no exit from the base for the wiring. No biggy, drill a hole and use a grommet. 2 the button cover needs cut to go over the last pot. Again no biggy just letting you know there are builds going on. Thanks for the excellent work. I was just starting to look around for a yoke when this popped up.

Nice work. I was just about to sit down and start designing my own rudder pedals. Looking at your design definitely helped me simplify some of the things I was trying to accomplish. Thanks for the inspiration. Also, your yoke game me a few ideas as well.

That's impressive engineering right there! Especially the pedals! Subbed up straight away.

Have to say, this is extremely impressive work. Nice job!

Old-school Russian-style pedals, which is cool. Rudder pedals on US planes typically have toe brakes, where you can rotate your foot forward to engage the brake on the left or right gear (or both).

Great pedal design, looks like it would be very simple to add toe brakes as well.

Hey man. Printed your throttle quadrant and rudder pedals. GREAT work! Thank you so much, you've got my sub.

Impressive and clean construction, Michael!

Awesome stuff. Thank you very much. I'm in the planning stages of building a Condor Gliding simulator. This really help answer some of the issues I've been trying to solve in my head.

Impressive work, dude! Really inspirational 💪🏽

Goddamn dude, you just about blew out my speakers in my living room

great pedal design - congrats !

Just awesome! Started printing right now

Very nice! I like your design for the rudder pedals much better than the one I came up with for mine, it's a much more elegant solution; mine used drawer slides to constrain the pedals and a belt reduction from the centre pivot to the potentiometer, direct meshing gears make more sense, especially with plastic gears where you can get the gear lash to basically nothing.

I liked this after the intro, very well done! I am working on a joystick and rudder pedals now, but I will probably start on your yoke soon after I am done with these

I never've thought about DIY controller/Joystick/HOTAS! thanks for that simple idea! I'm gonna probably build a HOTAS controller myself but using hall sensors instead of potentiometers :)

Enjoyed this more than a lot of people’s content with 1000 times your subs :)

Grabbed the files.... Thanks! More to follow. Even in 2024, this seems to be the best video on this.

Looks great! Great attention to detail.

Just to let you know, your Video made it to my RU-vid front page. Which means somethings. Have a very happy and healthy christmas :)

Love the creations man!

El mejor aporte a la realización de un cabina que he visto. Excelente trabajo. Lo felicito.

AWESOME! Congratulations my friend!

I love it !!! I may make my own based on your design !! Thanks for sharing !!

Excellent Yoke and rudder pedals!! And thanks you to share with us!!

You have given me some ideas how to modify my thrustmaster pedals to stop them being sticky

That's impressive! Watching from Egypt

Cool stuff my guy ;) , keep making awesome content

Hi fantastic vid, and thanks for going to all the effort of documenting it for us !

Awesome project. Always was thinking of such thing. Good job with constructing and building it, u have spent a lot of time for that. ;) Would subscribe 👍

This is great. Thanks for sharing your hard work.

This is fantastic. Thanks dude!

Thats so cool!!!! Im gonna try and build that thanks for the inspiration!!!

Really nice work!

nice project at all!!!!! congratulations!!!!

Great tutorial. 😀 Thanks for making this !!!!

Great DIY project!

Thank you kanye, very cool!

Awesome. I started to print the pieces.

The old XBox one pad makes a good start for a flight setup

Thx for the sketches Sherminator

Nice build. Very nice. I just wish the pedals had toe brakes.

Amazing design! I currently have one of those mediocre Logitec/Saitek yokes and want to make it much more realistic, this definitely pushes me to start!

Pretty impressive! :D

Amazing video man. Cheapest one I could find yet. It looks pretty cool but how am I gonna find the right sized bearings, screws etc?

I might do this to go with my Garmin 3d printed G1000 NXI. Looks doable!

Pft 750 subs? This is really nice, totally going to do that. :)

Fantastic, wow... made me wish buying a 3D printer now :)

hi michael thanks for sharing your knowledge. I would appreciate if you could show the electrical diagrams of the throttle quadrant and the yoke.

Awesome thanks for this!

agree on the pedal design, looks very nice and sturdy at the same time, better then the logitech versions probably as well f you want to use an ESp32 for input , use i2c for communication between the arduino and the ESP I have a full set of semi pro gear, but still design some inovative other stuff for the sim ( xplane that is ) and decided to use only esp32 and do comms via Wifi ( dont think it works yet in fs2020) this give the possibility to use devices like a accelerometer for yoke inputs or even a simple flightstick that can be handheld using batteries, or like in my case mount to a chair or use in a fully fledged cockpit thank you very much for posting your video, gave me some nice ideas ( using the rods and bearings is one of them)

This is amazing !!!!

You're a hero, especially with the current economic situation

You know i really need to make a good force feed back yoke. Would be simple to have a mechanical trim to remove pitch load, just needs a moving neutral position. Also use Leo Bodnar module has all the analogue inputs you need.

Please dont cut your video with music that is 3 times louder than your voice, it's super annoying having to constantly change volume, also really great and informative video

Like man great job!!!!!!!!

nice work!

keep going , I like the video.

Michael Rechtin, Thank you for the designs and 3D print files. I just finished 3D printing all of the parts and I am ready to assemble. However, I did not find a spec on the size and type of screws you used in the design. Do you have a size and type of screws for each component or total for both the yoke and pedals?

Great video!! Any idea of how to adapt the brake functionality with HAL sensors?

Nice work! You might want to check the standard colours for your throttle quadrant.

thanks for this, just finished building the throttle, i was curios how the leds are setup from flight sim? next week, the pedals!

My only 'gripe' would be to use long cheap tensions springs instead of rubber bands. Just from a longevity POV, rubber can dry rot and fall apart, especially under load. It's not a real plane so of course you could always add more bands if they break, I just like tension springs! The yoke is sick, btw. Using the linear slides might have been convenient, but its a great idea. I have a bunch of extra ball bearing drawer sliders, so I'll prolly use those, however my old printer now looks so strange all not scrapped... (oh yeah the levers which actuate on the pots, any particular reason you didn't give them a bearing/axle to ride on, which the pot could be nested in? seeing a pot being a little bit of structural member makes me sad for the pot lol)

great project and very good video, thanks for sharing. just one thing though all my ESP32 boards have a USB interface so I was surprised when you said they didn't.

You should change out your rudder pedals with pedals that can tilt forward. This is how you brake on a real aircraft. Plus, having an independent axis for the brakes on each side makes maneuvering on the ground much more realistic.

Hi Michael! Great stuff! I'm assembling the throttle module and wonder how you got the levers to stay in position when you move them midway? With the weight of the knobs, mines are falling down as the pots seems to weak to hold them in place. Any suggestions? Thanks!

this type of stuff makes me really want a 3d printer

Hi, could you post the electric circuit schema? Because in the google drive folder there isn't... Or someone that have already built it could provide it? I've print everything but i've some troubles with the connections. Thankyou so much and obviously amazing video!

Great video man love the work !!!! I will like to ask does the code work on FlightGear simulator ??? First time working on this

Great build! Where can I find the joystick library for the Arduino Micro?

I like it. I will make it.. Thank you :D

great vid what filament did you use?

Hi Michael, I bought the bearings and printed the pinion to test the tolerances, however my ender3 v2 prints the pinion bearing hole about 1mm too small so the bearing does not fit, I just wondered if the step files are available anywhere ? , Great Project Thank You !

On an ESP32 you could use bluetooth to input wirelessly to the computer

Wow, thank you !

You could have added potentiometers in the pedals to simulate actual breaks but this is a super cool project though

owesome project

step 1 : get a 3D printer, mission failed we'll get them next time

Very cool :)

There is also a company doing magnetic force feedback... nobody has yet managed to reproduce it but that would be amazing for this yoke!

This video is amazing (liked and subscribed for sure!). I've printed all my parts and bought stuff on Amazon and am knee deep in assembly and my low skill on the electronics end is really bringing everything to a grinding halt. Any chance you have a wiring diagram to help pathetic noobs like me finish this thing? Can't wait to fly!

Have a look at the STM32 blue pill. It has a 12bit ADC and USB interface. It is also Arduino compatible, cheap and plenty powerful.

Beautiful ! Could you kindly share the link to the project please? I really would like to make this one here at home , it'll be a very good therapy in these lockdown times.

OUTSTANDING! I hope you're going to school to study engineering. Your designs are elegantly simple with imaginative solutions in the mechanisms. Thank you for making the 3d files available. If I build one, I will do a video or two and I'll be sure to credit you as well as link to your video and channel. Currently I run a channel focused on RC cars and planes. I'll be launching a sim channel soon (early 2021) with the focus on car racing to start. I used to fly sims too, so I may have to build a set of controls based on your designs and start covering flight sims as well. An interesting mod would be to add a "dashboard" to the yoke using a 7" Fire tablet ($55)... I'll bet someone makes the software for such a thing. There are several offerings for the race car sims. A lot of controls could be manipulated via the touchscreen. It would be easy to print a frame for the tablet. Leave the top open like a slot so the tablet can be easily removed and replaced making configuration and maintenance easier... food for thought. Happy Holidays, CJ

Thanks so much for your contribution, The ino files say "require Arduino Library" does this mean that your code has to be added to other code or can we just flash you ino files as is? Thanks

Yokes rotate 90 degrees, you will have more control that way

it would be nice to get some Home Brew flight sticks eventually. if i knew how to make what i wanted it would be cool

Thanks for the great video. I' have started printing one myself now. Would you have the wiring diagram and hookup for the Arduino thank you

can u design a space mouse for CAD and 3D modelling with macro keys?

great easy-to-build design, well done! One note though: some of the parts will not fit a standard 220x220mm print bed so you need something bigger or you'll have to slice in parts and re-assemble after that. I mean the yoke wheel as well as the pedals bar.

Thank you so much for sharing this

Really cool project! A couple questions on the yoke, though: - Have you encountered any problems with the roll sensitivity (seeing the yoke in your design is able to rotate 90 degrees while the potentiometer can probably do a couple hundred degrees)? If so, have you had the chance to try using gears to utilize the full range of the potentiomenter?

nicely done. i'm surprised you didn't run the toe-down brake. and bro - windowed? lol really? you must have your reasons for not going fullscreen but i was surprised lol.

Basically trying to figure out the part with the electrical setup with the arduino board and would love links to stuff

I was testing the regular potentiometers and I see it does not have enough precision, I got a 10 turns potentiometer and It is way better, now I have to build the rudder pedals and I'm trying to figure out how to convert the movement to a 10 turn, maybe I can use half the turns, but in that case I think I need a different gear ration.

I'm lying here grinning like an idiot. Those look nearly as good as the Honeycomb and will work just as well.