Was just curious what people think are the best rudder pedals to use with FSX? I've looked at the CH products, and they seem to get good reviews - but really wondering what others who have experience with rudder pedals think, are they pretty solid and do they give a good solid response? I want to be able to use them for the differential brakes too - are they good in that regard also?Also, I read in a review that they don't spring back to center very solidly...do others think that too? - plus maybe that is realistic anyway?Thanks in advance for all replies!Andy.

I like my Saitek pedals, but I have jammed them with some heavy "footed" rudder imputs, which required taking about 20 screws off the bottom to release. This unit has tension and toe brakes. I have the brakes set in X-Plane, but haven't gotten around to figuring how to set them up in FS9/FSX.L.Adamson

I have both Saitek pro flight pedals and CH products USB pedals.I Like the Saitek pedals best. The CH pedals has a clear center detent and no way of adjusting tension. I have tried many options to improve, but was never really satisfied. They work ok for big ruddder inputs, but are alittle annoying when making small inputs like when taxiing, because of the center detent. I don't like the force either, pushing to much against a spring, very little tension and dampening.The CH pedals I have are from shortly after the USB version was released, so CH may have improved the design since.I tried the Saitek pro pedals in a store and was sold immediately. They have a far better feel imo, when tension is set right. The Saitek pedals doesn't seem to be quite as good in terms of physical quality as the CH pedals. I haven't had any problems though.I'm using the pedals with FS9, FSX and Oleg Maddox FB 46 without any problems (you have to assign the axes in game in FB).For me the best pedals are the Saitek pedals, but each person must consider what they want.CheersPeter

>Was just curious what people think are the best rudder pedals>to use with FSX? I've looked at the CH products, and they>seem to get good reviews - but really wondering what others>who have experience with rudder pedals think, are they pretty>solid and do they give a good solid response? I want to be>able to use them for the differential brakes too - are they>good in that regard also?>>Also, I read in a review that they don't spring back to center>very solidly...do others think that too? - plus maybe that is>realistic anyway?>>Thanks in advance for all replies!>>Andy.>CH Products, Thrustmaster

Hello Andy:I only have had the CH Pro Pedals, so cannot really make a comparison. The curve can be calibrated and adjusted in FSUIPC for sensitivity. I have had them for several years and am pleased with the following exception which you might want to consider.Some have escaped this (blind luck IMHO), but over the years I have had to pull mine apart and splice a small wire or two that has broken for the toe brakes. Someone at one time had a disassembly/reassemble routine in a post on these forums, but if you are mechanically inclined at even a minimum level, it is not really required. The requirements are pretty logical and no biggy.Good luck.RTH

CH pedals are very good indeed. I bought my first set in 1995, analog ones. Their potentiometers finally began to degrade a year ago and gave up the ghost six months later. That's *ten years* of near daily hard use. Difficult to beat them on durability and I find them very comfortable for prolonged use even with my size 12 feet. :) Naturally I replaced them with ch usb pro pedals and they're excellent. Cheers.

:-wave CH products are the way to go if you want reliability,performance and realism. The pressure/resistance when applying brakes felt a little weak for me, but removal of the six screws on each one of the grey foot-plates revealed the individual springs and their anchor posts. Out came the Dremel and off came the default anchor posts. Bit tricky hooking up the springs to the remaining posts, but the pedal pressure/resistance was far better and realistic after this mod.That was all done a few weeks after I purchased the pedals and the yoke back in 2003, and neither of them have given any problems at all since then. ;-)

Thanks for the tip I have the same pedals and own a Dremel. I will give it a go.:)

Hi everyone - just wanted to say thanks for all the input, I really appreciate it. My mind still isn't 100% made up, but I'm thinking I'll most likely go with the CH product. With that said, I'm very tempted by the Saitek joysticks so both companies may get some custom yet - I'm in the middle of finally upgrading my setup for FSX, amazing I've lasted 6 months before the bug hit me (like it has with pretty much every MSFS release)!Actually - I did have another related question - currently I'm using an MS FFB2 joystick, and the Z-axis is set for rudder right now, if I disable that in the FSX control assignments I'm assuming I shouldn't run into any problems when I get my rudder pedals?And my apologies to the admins - this was clearly very much a hardware post, my bad for not thinking to put it in the correct forum :)Andy.

I've never liked rudder pedals..maybe it was the way they were set up...I used the CH ones my friend had. They were very loose and not at all like real pedals. They were also quite touchy (again prolly a setup issue) and I was all over the runway during takeoff.I personally use my twist rudder on my MS FFB2 stick, works fine for meMaybe someday someone could show me a properly set up CH combo of yoke and pedals and I would like it :)

I have both the CH pedals and the Saitek pedals. My CH pedal's left brake stopped working so I decided to try the Saitek pedals and I like the Saitek more. The tension adjustment is great, you can set the size of the pedals, and it comes with very helpful velcro strips for your wood floor. My only complaint is that the brakes squeek a lot.

I have Simped rudder pedals and can't fault them. Hall sensor rather than potentiometer as well so no need to worry about it wearing out...

I finally decided to go with the CH products pedals. This is the first time I've ever gone so far as to have rudder pedals, and I'm loving it. Before I was doing rudder using the twist on my FFB2 stick, and differential brakes from the keyboard - sure that worked fine, but having the pedals really adds a whole new dimension to flying in FSX, really cool.I did find the brakes a little over responsive at first from the standpoint that I found myself activating the brakes when trying to use the rudder since it seems they activate as soon as there is any input value from the pedals other than 0, and messing with the controller calibration and FSX null zone didn't help (which makes sense since it isn't a centered type control I guess). To fix that I downloaded the CH control manager and wrote a little CMS script that gives me a dead band and scaled it so full braking is about 80% travel on the pedal which feels more comfortable to me.Thanks again to everyone who gave input and happy flying!Andy.