Honeycomb products with Elite?

[maatz]

Hello everyone,

I used to play Elite with a Xbox Elite gamepad together with the Thrustmasters Pendular Pedals.
For the Flight Simulator I got a yoke (product called Alpha) and throttle quadrant (product called Bravo) from the company Honeycomb and I was curious if someone of you dear CMDRs got one of those two products aswell and maybe tried them out in Elite Dangerous already?

Best regards and fly safe!

 

[Para Handy]

Wow - using a yoke in Elite. I have a CHPro Yoke which I use in flight sims - I would never consider using it in space flight. However, there is no reason it cannot be used, you just assign the axes to what you want (pitch and roll) - you can also use the switches on the beast by assigning them to suit your play.

You can assign the axes on the quadrant no problem obviously one for throttle.

BTW - congratulations on actually finding one!

 

[maatz]

Well at first I thought of getting a HOTAS for Elite Dangerous but as I already have the Honeycomb stuff at home the question popped up in my head.
I did a quick search on the forums but somehow no one uses a yoke for Elite Dangerous as it seems. Or people simply do not write about it.

I guess I will have to try to set it up and see how it works.

Why have you never considered flying with a yoke @Para Handy?

 

[Para Handy]

Yokes in general have "sort-of" damped travel in my experience. So when you make control inputs they feel slower. So just as fighter aircraft use joysticks for rapid response, so a joystick feels more suitable in space-ship combat. (Yes I think there was actually one fighter used a yoke.)

For sure there is no reason why you cannot fly a ship in Elite using a yoke, it is something you have to decide for yourself. My CHPro yoke has damped travel and I would not like to try to engage in space-ship combat using it (I am rubbish enough as it is!) - I don't know if the Honeycomb Alpha is damped in the y-axis (I suspect it probably is) - I do know it has very good range of travel in the x-axis but don't know if that has its movement damped.

I suspect that chugging along in a Beluga or T-9 might feel suited to a yoke though.

Have a try and do let us know how it feels.

Good luck

 

[drowhunter]

Hello everyone,

I used to play Elite with a Xbox Elite gamepad together with the Thrustmasters Pendular Pedals.
For the Flight Simulator I got a yoke (product called Alpha) and throttle quadrant (product called Bravo) from the company Honeycomb and I was curious if someone of you dear CMDRs got one of those two products aswell and maybe tried them out in Elite Dangerous already?

Best regards and fly safe!

Seems

Well at first I thought of getting a HOTAS for Elite Dangerous but as I already have the Honeycomb stuff at home the question popped up in my head.
I did a quick search on the forums but somehow no one uses a yoke for Elite Dangerous as it seems. Or people simply do not write about it.

I guess I will have to try to set it up and see how it works.

Why have you never considered flying with a yoke @Para Handy?

I found some gameplay footage

Source: https://youtu.be/OV5HybAqJh0

Source: https://youtu.be/ma_dtjhaETo