Saitek Flight Pro yoke with quadrant

[Kevin Farnell]

Just to clarify, Tony.

The quadrant (or should that be 'Trident' as it has 3 levers) does not have to be 'Throttle', 'Prop' and 'Mixture'. I had one lever set for speed brakes. If you were flying DM's wonderful trijet, you could control each engine with an individual throttle lever just like in real life..
I have no problem with either the throttles or rudder pedals, it's just the motion of the yoke and its software glitch.

Regards

Kevin

[DaveG]

I got one of the Saitek quadrants last week.

I've set the first 2 levers up as throttles for left and right-hand engines. The third is set up for brakes ATM. I don't use the saitek software, everything is set up in FSUIPC.

[Kevin Farnell]

Dave, do you use the Saitek throttle quadrant as a standalone unit or is it plugged via the Saitek yoke?
The throttle quadrant that I have is the one that came with the Saitek yoke and links to it via a PS2 (old mouse) type connector.
I've bought a PS2 to USB converter and while the PC (Win 7) seems to see the device, the power light doesn't show on the quadrant and it is not seen in FS9.
I believe that the additional quadrants come with a USB connector and wonder if this would work as a standalone throttle.

Regards

Kevin

[DaveG]

Hi Kevin,

Mine's a stand-alone throttle with a USB connector. Windows sees it as a separate controller.

[Kevin Farnell]

Thanks Dave.

I found on another forum, someone who was trying to do what I was attemting. It seems there is a difference between the throttles supplied with the yoke and those bought indepentantly. Those bought independantly, contain a USB circuit board allowing the PC to correctly identify the device. The quadrant supplied with the yoke (PS2 plug) require plugging via the yoke for identification.
I'll probably order a set of USB throttles, as I like them so much.

Cheers for the help.

Kevin

[tonymadge]

The Birthday present arrived today and the dearest bought me the Saitek Yoke with quadrant, I have oredered another quadrant as well, like Bob's
So its time to retire the gameport CH Yoke but what about the pedals...... I have CH pro pedals gameport type, I wonder if I can still use them with the Saitek???
Any thoughts before I lash out £80
Cheers Tony

[DaveB]

Yes.. spend the 80-quid ya tight ba*tard

Hope you get lots of use out of your new rig

ATB

DaveB

[tonymadge]

I am tight I am all things that is said about me, moslty bad, so I cant complain
I ordered the extra throttle quadrant from morecomputers.co.uk £46 free delivery and it arrived this morning, excellent service. Now I have lots of knobs to play with I have plumped for a Rockport USB to Game converter for £10 as this according to reviews I have read will run the CH stuff, so the pedalls will hook up to that and I guess this will then go into the yokes, hub along with the throttle quadrant??? Just not sure if I connect the yoke up first then add all these on or do it before, bit like chicken and egg.... Anyone done this sort of thing??? or even just adding the 2nd quadrant???
Cheers Chaps
Tony