{"id":72,"date":"2022-08-30T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cessna172sim.nl\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2022-08-30T23:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T21:21:02","slug":"yokes-and-the-yoke-linkage-system","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/yokes-and-the-yoke-linkage-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Yokes and the Yoke Linkage system."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I purchased the panel and some of the gauges from a seller in The Netherlands, he gave me a Cessna yoke. Although the yoke had no PTT button, the cable was present. I had a suitable push button switch in my components stock and I soldered in on to the original wires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The PTT switch soldered onto the existing wires. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I went onto Ebay and after several weeks of looking I purchased a second yoke and waited patiently while it was shipped to the Netherlands. When the yoke arrived I was a little disappointed to discover that the yoke tube was longer than the one that I already had, this was easily remedied with a ruler and a metal saw! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But, I then discovered that the tube had a different inner diameter and I had to purchase a 19mm drill bit to be able to make widen the interior of the yoke tube. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ‘new’ yoke on top. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now that I had two yokes I needed a way to link them properly. One of the requirements that I have always insisted on implementing is a dual yoke system so that I would be able to fly together with someone. A lot of people have used different manners of linking their yokes. From sliding dollies to complex linkage systems I spent a weekend trawling through countless pages before that metaphoric lamp bulb suddenly lit up: the answer was KISS (keep it simple stupid)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The yokes ‘dry fitted’ and just put into place, this was before my ‘Y’- bar arrived. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why not just go and source an original Cessna yoke ‘T’or ‘Y’ bar. I have to admit, the idea struck me while I was paging through the C172 illustrated parts catalogue looking at different aspects of the Cessna 172 construction. The ‘Y’ bar enables two yokes to be linked through a number of pulleys, it has a single pivot point and a connection point for a pushrod which is directly connected to the elevator. These last two points were very attractive from a builders point of view, I would need one potentiometer for the roll access and one for the pitch access, and they would be controlled by dual yokes. Well, you guessed it, off to Ebay again \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Copyright Textron\/Cessna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Three weeks later my ‘Y’-bar arrived in the netherlands! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was a Happy camper when this package arrived. I had to pay an additional 90 odd euro for import taxes and handeling but it was so cool to receive this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I purchased the panel and some of the gauges from a seller in The Netherlands, he gave me a Cessna yoke. Although the yoke had no PTT button, the cable was present. I had a suitable push button switch in my components stock and I soldered in on to the original wires. I went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.c172sim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}