Hi guys,Everyone knows that for large aircrafts, there is a specific hand wheel to steer the nose gear of the airplane. It can turn the nose gear into much larger angles than what the rudder pedal can do. Pilots can also do the rudder test whiling texing by holding the steering wheel. I wonder in previous PMDG products or in upcoming NGX, is that possible to assign a control axis to nosewheel steering wheel?Thanks,Howie Wong

I think this feature would make it harder to control. I remember the days when flying FS with only a keyboard.... rather difficult keeping the aircraft on the centre line! NWS is easily simulated by limiting the steering angle as you accelerate. From memory (on another Boeing), the NWS was able to turn the nose wheel to about 70*. The rudder would only provide about 15*.

Is that possible to assign a control axis to nosewheel steering wheel?

I think you can do this through a registered copy of FSUIPC...?

I think you can do this through a registered copy of FSUIPC...?

Yes, you can do this with the registered FSUIPC. I have a CH yoke, rudder pedals and throttle quadrant combo which I use for primary flight controls. I use an old Saitek USB joystick as well, and I have assigned nosewheel steering to the twist grip of the joystick.To make this work, you must assign and calibrate both the rudder pedal and nosewheel steering axis via FSUIPC.Having the secondary joystick is handy in other ways - I have assigned various VC functions to its hat switch, I.E. move eyepoint left/right, up/down and zoom in and out.FSUIPC blends the nosewheel and rudder inputs. At slow taxi speeds, only the nosewheel steering is effective. As the aircraft accelerates on takeoff, the rudder becomes more and more effective, until by 60 knots, directional control is solely by rudder inputs.Jim Barrett

I think this feature would make it harder to control. I remember the days when flying FS with only a keyboard.... rather difficult keeping the aircraft on the centre line! NWS is easily simulated by limiting the steering angle as you accelerate. From memory (on another Boeing), the NWS was able to turn the nose wheel to about 70*. The rudder would only provide about 15*.

Not quite sure why this should make it harder to control when in fact it's more close to the real thing. Personally I would also love to have seperate controls for NWS and rudder in the sim. I'd just love that little added realism to taxi without the rudder moving, plus performing the rudder check without making turns on the taxiway :LMAO:Tiller turns NLG by 78° btw (75° effective steering angle I guess due to wheel slip), rudder pedals provide 7° max travel. :(

I once created a tiller for FS2Crew 767.It is very possible to create a tiller via the MSFS SDKs in FSX.The way I had it was that you used your mouse to manipulate a tiller wheel graphic, and this was connected to the nosewheel.Long story short: It was awkward to use, so I never continued with it.

I am set up just like the big jets. I use a separate joystick for nose wheel steering and rudder pedals for the subtle turns. FSUIPC makes it very easy to do so. They have a steering feature. I think though using the tiller causes the airelons to also move - I never figured how to stop that, but at least I accomplished proper steering.

I have an x52pro, and on GA aircraft, I use the x axis (big) rotary knob on the throttle quadrant to control the mixture, but I'd so like to use that knob to control the tiller on big jets. I've wondered how to achieve that, and I'll appreciate any help. I have a registered version of FSUIPC. Thanks