Honeycomb Alpha Flight Control System (yoke) unboxing and review 

You say that you downloaded the Drivers from flyhoneycomb.com/drivers/ I'm not sure if you have done a Driver uninstall then re-installed of the specific LM Prepar3D Drivers. Upon watching other YT content creators who have done Honeycomb reviews, it appears it might be specific with using the Enterprise Simulation Platform ESP coding platform from Lockheed Martin Prepar3D. Recommend checking out YT content creator ChrizzyReviews and his recent Prepar3D clips ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QX6WrmhzSYo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H5Z9hmtEaPg.html I understand the Honeycomb Yoke uses a Tension Bungee band with a similar setup as to the Yoko the yoke. The Honeycomb Tension Bands if they break can be replaced and it has high end 8 bit potentiometers with 255 measurements across 180 degrees, that equates to a measurement of 1.7 degrees of movement. If you like check out the following YT clips from FSExpo 2019 with Nicki Repenning, Founder and CEO of Honeycomb Aeronautical. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jhOLFImJ_4E.html Also FSExpo 2019 FSElite Interview with Nicki Repenning ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xUKgiiZrYI8.html It's interesting to note in this clip @ 10:00 mark in the FSElite Interview, the question is asked about the Honeycomb future roadmap. With the possibility of a Honeycomb style Force feedback yoke. Nicki Repenning eludes to the fact that Honeycomb are in discussions with an un-named Canadian company, that makes electromagnetic force-feedback products. My guess is that their long term plans around a Force feedback style of yoke, is that they are currently corroborating with a small Canadian, British Columbia company called Iris Dynamics who previously ran a long delayed Kick-starter project a few years back. For a Electromagnetic Control Loading Dragon-Fly Yoke, at the time, the small team were not well-equipped for mass manufacturing and product support to develop their Iris Dragon-Fly force-feedback yoke any further for the flight sim community. www.irisdynamics.com/

@@radar-kiwis-canfly-nz3492 If it was a problem with the Microsoft sims the dead zones wouldn't show up in Windows Control Panel. In any case there is no driver, this is a native Windows joystick.

Thank you. I made the change but unfortunately still a big dead zone... you can tell that as I'm turning slightly left and right the input still stays at 0 which has no effect. Getting rid of the 512 dead zone may have had a tiny effect, but getting the joystick to say anything other than 0 requires turning the yoke at least 6 or 7 degrees.

@@marcantonio152 Well okay, I will have to reserve judgement for now. I have a yoke of my own now, so I hope to set it up and do some experiments this weekend.

@@marcantonio152 You are right, my yoke has a dead zone on both axes. I am guessing is a mechanical consequence of how the potentiometers are linked to the yoke movements. There is about a 6mm dead zoneon the pitch axis and a few degrees (hard to measure accurately) on the roll.

There should be no dead-zone whatsoever. It is most likely a setting in FSUIPC. When FS Elite did their review they initially had a big dead-zone, but found out it was an error in FSUIPC and once they fixed it it worked perfect. Contact us on support@flyhoneycomb.com and we'll try to get more detailed feedback from FS Elite on how they solved the problem.

@@NickiRepenning I am seeing this in the Game Controller calibration screen in Windows 7 control panel, not FSUIPC. I will continue to experiment.

Not sure which aircraft you're referring to - the one at the start of the video was a C-2 from INDIAFOXTECHO, and the one at the end was the default F-22 from P3D

@@marcantonio152 Sorry for not being clear. The aircraft I was asking about is the C-2. Thank you.