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even worse nowadays.... it comes out forwards as well.......:<)

I often wonder if I'd lived on the Coast if my career had been different. My annual holidays always left me envious of any jobs connected with ships and boats, but I was born a hundred miles inland, so I spent most of my life as a boring telephone engineer (hence the dial avatar :<)

@@ShorebasePaul Well don't it is a hard life, and then you get kick about by the government taking your job away so you have nothing but poor paid jobs, this is what happen in my city when Thatcher became PM, Southampton was one of the world major ports, it employed thousands of seamen and more in the shipyards, docks there was over 100,000 people employed in this industry, more than the population of this city, you look at it now, it is counted in the hundreds and the city as grown to just over 1/4 million, and you be lucky if you get a job let alone on the water

Yes, 'The Grass is always Greener' whenever you look back on 'what might have been'. Back in the 1960's when I left school I nearly applied to be a 'Navigating Officer Cadet' with the P&O when they were a respected company. I chickened out though, and joined the GPO as a Telephone Engineer. So when the P&O recently sacked all of their UK crews on their Ferries, I was even more amazed than most people at how crap the firm had become.

...aha, you recognised the technique.... 🙂

Did you figured it out?

Sorry to disagree but this yoke is great. And not everyone has unlimited funds to buy the latest and greatest. But the Velocity One has so many features compared to every other yoke and throttle set, that doing miner mods to make it work even better, puts this yoke up with the best. As you said, you don’t have it so you have no idea how good and feature rich this device is!

@@anthonymark3771 First up, anything like this that needs mods to fix issues obviously isn’t great, and the level of mods that would be really needed to make this a GREAT flight sim yoke would be expensive enough you might as well get something else in the first place. Up with the best? That’s hilarious, you should go on stage with jokes like that and having extra cheap switch’s and dials etc which you can get separately doesn’t excuse its main purpose sucking even with mods. No, the problem isn’t that I haven’t tried this one, it’s that YOU haven’t tried anything better, were as I have had experience of cheap crap yokes like this and a load of other cheap plastic controls AND of better options and I’ll never go back to this kind of garbage. I’ve wasted enough money on them and I’ve also done mods to them as well to remove too strong detents, stiction and other issues, which improved them sure, but it’s like putting lipstick on a pig, it still performs like dirt compared to other options and I’ve seen that first hand a number of times now. As per usual with you people you bring up not being able to afford better options as if that changes the quality difference and as if thats part of your attack on my comment, as if I have something against anyone who’s poor, because the reality is you would have to be pretty poor to not be able to afford something better than this. You don’t need unlimited funds or even many funds to manage that, and if you are actually really into flight simulation you will find the money and anyone poor enough that can’t find it probably has more important things to worry about and isn’t into flight sims which let’s face it, isn’t that cheap of a hobby. I don’t even make much money myself, but that’s actually more reason to pay less in the long run than waste any more money on something that doesn’t perform its duties well and I’m unhappy with and so ends up getting replaced eventually which means more money spent, that’s my point. But you carry on lying to yourself it’s better than it is, I’ve seen plenty of people with your delusions before when they won’t or can’t spend the extra so they go defensive on their purchase decisions. But I’ve also seen a rare few that when they do wake up and get something better they realise how wrong they were, pretty recently actually.

@@WhiteHawk77 Just go away...there always people like you trying to put other people down. Why are you here anyway? If you don't have the VelocityOne, we do not need your opinion.

The object of the video was to show the fleeting glimpse of a deer running across the road. If it was any longer people might get bored....

For what I understood the physical version will be available again in a couple of weeks

No problem Danno, share away....

@@ShorebasePaul thanx @ShorebasePaul many many thanx much appreciated 👍👍

​@@ShorebasePaulr u a subscriber of Solent Ships ud b made v Welcome

I can't remember the individual name of the Ferry Robert, it was just the Cowes to Southampton Car Ferry...

I think it's Red Osprey

Kevin's mod arrived several weeks ago and I fitted it straight away. It has completed the transition, making the pitch axis wonderfully smooth, even when holding just one side of the yoke. I'd say it's now actually better than my Honecomb Alpha, being much lighter, wnd with no centre detent at all.

@@ShorebasePaul So you did leave the spring pads out after you added Kevin's mod? Thanks for the info.

Yes Patrick, they were preventing one spring from gradually taking over from the other. When they're removed, the transition at the centre is much more seamless.

@@ShorebasePaul Thank you.

Where do I find this mod?

A tricky question to answer.... I guess it would reluctantly be the FF, because that's only for joystick aircraft and helicopters, whereas the DOF platform gives me immersion in all aircraft and driving sims too (and rollercoaster etc). I've 'downgraded' my H6 back to an H3 again since doing this video, because I find it gives virtually the same overall impression of movement but is much easier to climb aboard, without the 6 DOF 'turrets' restricting side to side and rearward adjustments.

Mate I'm running a full motion system from Eracing, the stall buffet, positive/negative G feelings, engine vibration not to mention pitch, roll and heave are beyond words. I'm on the waiting list for the VPForce, my number gets called in a few weeks so I'll also be able to provide some feedback. RSMega all the way 😊

It's in a completely different league Raymond. The forces are musc stronger and more detailed. I still have my trusty Sidewinder Pro, a very well made and much underated joystick, but unfortunately the force feedback no longer works properly with MsFS or XP12. I paid for the third party addon software FsForce, but it just gives a steady rythm of jerks, with no connection to the sims. I tried emailing the author, but never got a reply.

Open the velocity one there is magnet simply put it in place it will fix the problem

I use the button configuration options in XP12 and MsFS, just like any other joystick. I use the VPForce configurator software to tune the force feedback sttings.

yes, no problem Danno....

@@ShorebasePaul jump aboard lots of different Ships all Shapes n Sizes

@@ShorebasePaul thanx v much appreciated 👍⚓

Brilliant footage. Used to go to Cowes for a pint, just to ride on them. Thanks for uploading this. 👍

My guess would be capacity. The subsequent Red Jet catamarans had a far greater passenger capacity, and may have been more efficient fuel-wise.

The shearwater hydrofoils had a capacity of 67 and a service speed on foils of 32.5 knots and a speed of 15 knots could be obtained off foils

@@ShorebasePaul But mostly the red jets were operating at very light loads, with 30 or 40 passengers on the majority of crossings. The hydrofoils could seat 80, but maybe they used just as much fuel as a red jet. I know the hydrofoils were vastly more economical than the ill fated Cowes Express with its elaborate surface-effect vessel.

You have a point. I suppose the interior layout is now very comparable to the interior of a commercial airliner - you can’t see out of the front of those either.

Makes it more of an adventure not being able to see forward...as long as the pilot can 😂

Yes, that's fine. Anything is better than leaving them unlubricated.

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I just got one of these and it transformed the yoke. Worth every penny

Right, it's really two different problems. 1) the centering that this video address and then 2) the "stickiness" that the 3D printed mod is addressing.

Coincidentally, I have now also fitted VanDeik's "Ghastly Mod" of the bracket outside of the box with the rubber tyred roller bearings supporting the yoke shaft underneath as it exits the front plastic collar. I have to say that it now works brilliantly. Now that the "sag", caused by the hands resting on the grips and weighting it down slightly is now fully supported by the roller bearings, so that the shaft moves in and out as smoothly as any other yoke that I posess, (an Alpha XPC, a Macbare, and even my Brunner CLS-E !). The combination of his bracket and my removal of the spring stops has made the pitch axis perfectly smooth, with a gradual transition of forward to backward resistance. The roll axis still has a very distinct centre detent, but that is much easier to live with. I agree completely that the standard factory performance of the VelocityOne yoke is almost unusable in respect of the awful pitch axis binding, making final approach and flaring very unpleasant. Amazing really, considering how much effort they've put into the rest of it. It's a similar story (IMHO) with their VelocityOne Joystick too, I find that excellent, in all but one respect, the ridiculously stiff centre detent. Luckilly though, I found a video here on TH-cam where the Guy explains a very simople mod of opening the base and either cutting the coil spring or replacing it with a weaker one, (which I did), and that too, is now my best all in one "portable" joystick. (I also have a Virpil and a Rhino FF, which are in a different league altogether, but the VelocityOne is much more compact for portable use.

Hi Paul great video of the mod, I shall be trying this as it definitely is to abrupt jerky movement landing at this point on the yoke. Please can you tell me if there is a link available to Vans roller mod. Thanks

Yes Gary, it's at www.etsy.com/uk/shop/vanDIJKstuff?ref=l2-about-shopname

@@ShorebasePaul thanks Paul

⁠@@ShorebasePaulyo can you make this mod and sell it I was trying to buy it but it’s sold out

I hear what you're saying, but the collars on the bushes are plastic anyway, and a lot thinner than the central arm, so if there's any plastic to metal wear it would occur with them anyway, (and I doubt if they're available as spares). Also, the shaft is very hard stainless steel and the spings are not (so are softer), so I don't think there will be anyscratches on the shaft from them.

@@ShorebasePaul Para prevenir esse problema, criei umas anilhas, na impressora 3D em TPU e assim, as molas estão sempre centradas e não fazem barulho.

@@mjrtekscan you share the 3d printer files ?