No, those flight yokes are too slow to make decent star wars controllers. My best friend has a S.T.U.N. Runner, which has the same yoke as Star Wars (except that the STUN Runner yoke only aims up). You steer left and right to steer, and you twist the handles up and down for the up and down part.
It can work VERY fast, much faster than you could move any flight yoke I have ever seen.