FLIGHT CONTROLS

FLIGHT SIMULATOR MECHANICAL CONTROLS

Best of all, the manual and plans come to you as one cohesive PDF document to save on shipping!
If you desire to print out a set, simply take the PDF to a print shop (or print at home).

Custom Fabrication Services

SimSamurai offers both the DIY manual for building dual mechanically linked yokes by yourself or you can choose to have us fabricate them for you.  We now also offer throttle designs for both single and multi-engine aircraft. If you are interested in our fabrication services, prices typically start at $1,000 for a professional quality multi-engine throttle set made of metal components, phenolics, and 3D printed parts. For dual yokes, prices are $1,750 for a standard set of general aviation style horizontally mounted yokes and this includes cost of two Cessna, Piper, or Beech style yoke horns (providing each horn costs no more than $350 each), or, you can send us a set you may already own to reduce total costs.  Lastly, airliner style dual-linked floor mounted “pedestal style” yokes common to business jets and airliners cost anywhere from $3,500 to $5,000 to fabricate and this includes cost of the airliner yoke horns (the actual controls yours hands are on) which are commonly at least $500 each.  Therefore final pricing is largely based on actual costs of the selected flight control yoke horns themselves and can vary overall due to the desired level of fidelity for all components which may or may not include force feedback. Adding force feedback to either set typically costs an additional $1000.

DIY Dual Control Yoke Manual

The DIY dual yokes plan set allows DIY builders to create their own set of professional quality flight yokes which are mechanically linked to one another.  This package is sold as a PDF file which includes all builder details, plans, blueprints and diagrams necessary for project completion.  Please note that while this provides key details and drawing of dual yoke construction, both horizontal “telescopic” style as well vertical “pedestal style” it of course cannot provide every single detail of these two types for all aircraft as that would require thousands of pages of documentation. While more various types and styles of dual yoke construction will eventually be covered (and all upgrades are free to you), the current V1 edition primarily details how to build horizontally mounted spring tension style of dual control flight simulator yokes for under $200 (plus cost of the actual yoke horns / handles). Similarly, it contains details for fabrication of the vertical pedestal style with spring and hydraulic tension.

For the telescopic style, this low cost design can be sandwiched into just 4.5 inches of vertical space making it ideal for all SimSamurai cockpit designs or any cockpit for that matter as it minimizes use of space and importantly allow for the lowest dash height possible for best visual ergonomics. This is extremely important because yoke columns and tubes in General Aviation (GA) aircraft are commonly set at least 4 to 6″ up into the instrument panel. Therefore if 20″ to 24″ displays are used for instruments, this means the yoke tube must sit directly under the display which in turn raises the display above common visual dash height. In turn this forces upper visual displays to also be set higher. The end result of this, as seen in countless simulators, is a problem of ergonomics which quickly creates neck strain. Therefore we take this into careful consideration with all of our product designs, both with hardware and with our cockpit shell enclosure designs.

Additional varieties of floor mounted pedestal style yokes and force feedback yokes will eventually be fully covered in later revisions but please know these that force-feedback designs are not currently detailed in the V1 edition but are still discussed for purposes of familiarization and detail how they operate and contain links to aid in this feature, but because of all the possible variables it does not yet include actual technical drawings for vertical style force-feedback designs.

Regardless, this highly detailed technical manual on building dual-linked mechanical flight yokes is bar none the most comprehensive product you will find on this subject and the included SimSamurai designs have been refined to perfection and will allow you to use our designs and concepts in your own simulator project.   Lastly, once purchased, all future upgrades of this manual are 100% free.

Dual Yokes DIY Manual – Volume 1 – $20.00

The Volume 1 edition is 65 pages. Chapters 1, 2, and 5 are the only chapters which are 100% complete (see below).  Chapters 3 and 4 will be fully completed over 2026 and at that point the builder manual will cost $10 more once fully complete and will likely exceed 100 pages of text. Therefore we encourage you to buy now at Volume 1 pricing as future upgrades will be completely free for current customers!

All future updates of the Dual Yokes DIY Manual will be absolutely free to anyone who purchases the manual today and this is regardless of your original purchase price. In other words, all future volume upgrades are free.. so buy now and save!

Great care and detail have gone into providing you with another outstanding SimSamurai product. No detail has been missed. You can now build dual linked mechanical yokes for less cost than if you bought two brand new gaming style yokes, yet you will have three times the fore and aft travel distances and a full 180 degree range of roll motion just like in real world aircraft. Best yet, all required parts are readily available online or at your local hardware store. The dual flight yokes can actually be constructed in as little as two or three weekends.

Get Ready to Yank and Bank!

To purchase the plan set or discuss a custom fabricated set of dual yokes for your simulator please email us at simsamurai@gmail.com.