Hi,I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'm getting my own pedals tonight, and I'm STILL not sure whether to use 24 or 4 for rudder efectiveness with YD ON or OFF. What would be the ideal settings for the rudders, so that V1 cuts are possible to control and the taxiing would be smooth as well ? Is there a configuration that enables them both ?Thanks for the patience everybody :).regardsTero

I don't know the answer...Just wanted to say GOOD LUCK if you are using WinXP Pro...My pedals don't work properly under WinXP (they did under Win98).Let us know how it worked out.George DorkofikisAthens, Greece

Ok, will let you know...anyone ???regardsTero

George,Is this the problem you are referring to, because I DO have a problem with the toebrake calibration ?http://ftp.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboa...orum=DCForumID8Tero

I already replied to the main forum, but I better do it here as well...I'm getting so :-fume with this situation!That's EXACTLY the problem I have NOW. And I point NOW because until 2 days ago the problem with the calibration was the rudder axis itself!!!!It wouldn't center no matter what!After changing the pedals from/to ALL the USB ports I have (thanks to GigaByte I have 6!) I finally found one port that for some strange reason works ok with the rudder axis but I get the problem you have with the brakes.It's getting very hard to taxi around as the plane starts yawing one or the other side, and during take-off you get the brakes activated all the time!CH blames VIA (!), VIA blames MS, MS Blames CH...But... I DO NOT have a VIA chipset!!! I have INTEL Chipset and still can't make the pedals work. With the same configuration everything works 100% correct under Win98SE!They don't work under WinXP only! So I can only asume the CH Drivers are crapy. Or it may be the case that the pedals or the CH drivers are not compatible with USB 2.0...Do you have USB 2.0 by any chance?Isn't it nice? To spend a few hundred dollars or Euros or whatever for something that you can't use with the latest OS !BTW, my GAMEPORT CH FS Yoke works GREAT under WinXP !!! At least they did a good job with the new gameport drivers!George DorkofikisAthens, GreecePS. Apologies for the bit off-topic guys...

George,You may not believe this BUT :)...I Got the F'n pedals to work :D.The problem was (at least in my case), that I tried to calibrate the Toebrakes in WinXP Game Controllers settings.The problem ? Well, I searched the CH knowledgebase for the answer and there it was: "with Win2000 the toebrakes should NOT be touched or moved AT ALL in the calibration phase", otherwise they'll stay on or act weird or whatever. Look, I know Win2000 and WinXP are NOT the same thing, but ALMOST... And that's good enough for me, because once I recalibrated the Pedals, WITHOUT touching the brakes at all (Just press NEXT where it asks you to move the X/Y-axises), and voil

Tero, George,Maybe you should have a look at my site at the flightsimulator page. There's an introduction to CH flightsim products under Windows XP. I have no problems at all, neither with the rudder axis nor with the toebrakes, nor with steering the aircraft during taxiing.Don't forget to set rudder_effectiveness to 24 and always leave your Yaw Dampers on (if you're using the PIC767-Posky merge).Regards,KiekEHAMhttp://home.planet.nl/~nwkaan/

Kiek,I've visited your site many times, not the least because of the excellent setup instructions there.But you use the CH Control Manager, right ?Me or George here don't use it at all... Should I install it ?Tero

Tero,If you have more than one CH flight sim product, I would definitely say yes, sure. Especially the latest version (2.0) is very good. You can have a mix of buttons defined by CH Control manager and buttons defined by FSUIPC (the you define it as a DirectX button in control manager and do the rest in FSUIPC)Other advantages are: a shift button to double the number of functions assigned to buttons, the possibility to define non-linear response curves for axis, maps for different a/c types, a user friendly interface, ..By the way: I have no stake in that company ;-) KiekEHAMhttp://home.planet.nl/~nwkaan/

Kiek,You have me convinced to download and try out that control manager after the PIC on VATSIM event this weekend. I might be crazy but I'm not nuts, or is it the other way around? - Oh well, I'll have to ask ACA856 that one.Anyway, I like the benefits you site so I think I will experiment with it. But here is the twist, I use the CH usb pedals and yoke with XP and it was purely plug and play. They work great. But, I completely skipped the calibration thing! I tried the CH (out of the box) control manager for about 10 minutes and found out "it don't work" so I bailed out of that and just set everything in FS and FSUIPC, push to talk across WideFS and the whole deal. The only thing I changed was to turn off the null zone for the pedals and pull the sensitivity back to about 75%.So George and Tero, maybe that calibration thing IS the problem...Join us in 15 hours on the PIC flight if you can guys and I will be back onto this subject in another week or so.

Ok, but how do you get the gear switch to behave like a real gear handle when you use CH Control Manager. By default (without it), the switch works like a real one .. up is up, down is down and it is NOT, I say again NOT a gear toggle. Once you put CH Control Manager in, it stops working like that, at least for me. That's an automatic toss-it-out-the-door for me.cz

Richard,That's easy to accomplish. In Control Manager you define rocker buttons up and down as DirectX buttons. Then in FSUIPC you choose the gear up and gear down functions for them. Like I said, with CH Control Manager you can have the best of both worlds!You should have a close look at my website, in flightsimulator, flight sim yoke USB; it's all there...KiekEHAMhttp://home.planet.nl/~nwkaan/

Hi Michael,I'm sure you will like it. You did a great job organizing the event down under. Unfortunately, I'm not able to attend. Happy Flying!KiekEHAM

Yes, that DID improve the situation.I say again, IMPROVE, not 100% corrected because I still get some break locks once in a while which go away only if I give some rudder!!I hope CH fix there WinXP USB Drivers soon!Thanks for your help!George DorkofikisAthens, Greece