May 26, 200521 yr Hi everyone,I received the rudder pedals from GoFlight yesterday. This is my first rudder pedals, didnt fly with it in sim before.http://alkit.fotopic.net/p15443222.htmlhttp://alkit.fotopic.net/p15443223.htmlhttp://alkit.fotopic.net/p15443224.htmlhttp://alkit.fotopic.net/p15443225.htmlThe installation is easy. It include a CD which is not useful for the rudder pedals installation but the other GF control device.The only problem I encounter is, the FS confuse me a bit when I enable the differential brake. The "BRAKE" sign will remain ON on the lower left corner of the screen. It is not telling me that it is brakING, but telling me that I am in differential brake mode only.The rudder pedals itself works beautiful.The only problem (a small one) is its centering. When I release my foot on the pedals, it doesnt back to the center position "precisely". I need to adjust it a bit for the center position. A bit hard to handle during taxi and takeoff run with wind.Alkitwww.alkit.net
May 26, 200521 yr You may want to increase the null zone for the rudder... helps to prevent over-controlling and return to zero.
May 26, 200521 yr Hi Mitch,Let me tone it now! Thank you very much for your suggestion.Alkitwww.alkit.net
May 26, 200521 yr >You may want to increase the null zone for the rudder...>helps to prevent over-controlling and return to zero. Yeah, but if you have good rudder pedals, you want nullzone to zero, otherwise it's a bit hard to control in crosswind etc, if you need to press *quite a lot* to get any rudder movement, and then when you loosen up to ease the the control force, it kicks into the nullzone again and you get straight rudder. Can make stuff "jump around" a bit.That's why rudders need to be quite strong in the spring force.//Tuomas
May 27, 200521 yr the differential brake in FS says differential brake when you have one pressed, but not both, indicating that some braking is going on, but maybe almost no force applied to the brake actuators in fs, thus no turning...this maybe due to the calibration being a little off and instead of reading 0 in the non-braking condition, it maybe reading a bit higher maybe 100 or so, but enough that FS is interpreting it as you stepping on the brake just a very light touch.If you have FSUIPC, you should be able to calibrate the zero/full points for each of the axes independently of FS (seems to be more reliable especially with the throttles than FS is). Aaron
May 27, 200521 yr Hi Aaron,You are totally correct!I play the pedals whole night after dinner last night. I found the problem in the brake sensor. Actually, this is FS problem as the calibration in WinXP shows perfectly during movement.However, when running FS, sometimes the left brake "jump" to middle which cause the "differential brake" enable. I didn't apply any force to the left brake. This error can be corrected by press on the left toe brake again. It happens "sometimes", cant say very often. I will try calbrate in FSUIPC tonight. Hope this is the solution to my situation.Thank you very much for your suggestion.Alkitwww.alkit.net
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