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yikes!I'm sorry you haven't experienced trouble-free simming yet.Do you, by any chance, have 2 controllers hooked up at once? If so, that can cause what you describe. Is your yoke/pedals USB or gameport? I'm thinking this is a controller problem.Of course, I could be wrong. It could be some setting that needs tweaked. I know FS can be a real nightmare to troubleshoot sometimes, but once the problems are sifted out, the experience is very rewarding.Good luck to you!-JeremyThe Ozark DogfighterHappy Flying!

Just a couple of thoughts. You should be able to release your brakes by pressing the brake key, usually the period or the trigger on the joystick. For the swerving, you might want to try calibrating your joystick. If you're in a twin, make sure that both engines are putting out the same amount of torque--maybe use the cessna until you get comfortable. F4 should advance your throttles to full. If that does, and your joystick dosn't, again, sounds like a joystick issue. Good luck!billg

Hi James. In Flight Sim, as in real life Cessna,we have to push "mediumly" strong on the right pedal,when the engine is full throttle, but at low air speed.That's normal, and it fades away, when air speed increases.The tork, is one thing, BUT the airflow-on-the-rudder is acompletely different effect of full-throttle-low-speed operations.So, go back in FS2002, like me, and blue skies. B-)

You can always use "auto-rudder" to get rid of the left drift tendencies, and need for a twist grip or pedals, or use a twist control which still seems sensitive as compared to my rudder pedals.In reality, even a "Skyhawk" will head towards the left runway lights, if you don't apply right rudder throughout the takeoff roll & climb. It has a fixed rudder trim, that should take effect at cruise speeds.Actually, the left drift of the default Cessna, is just about right, with my pedals. I get somewhat "irked" at planes that don't do it............as long as they should to begin with.L.Adamson

What a load of fuss over some rudder pedal problems:-) CheersDan

Why yes I do. Two USB CH controllers, yoke and pedals. I haven't actually tried to fly anything other than the Skyhawk, so its not an engine issue. There has been a lot of troubleshooting attempted. I've tried them both on another computer as well (though I can't remember the outcome of that). Calibration was the first thing I tried. I must have recalibrated each of them 10 times at least. All to no avail.

>Why yes I do. Two USB CH controllers, yoke and pedals. I>haven't actually tried to fly anything other than the Skyhawk,>so its not an engine issue. There has been a lot of>troubleshooting attempted. I've tried them both on another>computer as well (though I can't remember the outcome of>that). Calibration was the first thing I tried. I must have>recalibrated each of them 10 times at least. All to no avail.If there is a chance that two controllers are tied together, such as I do, to run my analog Thrustmaster pedals through an old analog Saitek joystick to the gameport; then you need to elimanate functions for the un-used set in controller assignments. I only use the "rudder" assignment for the old joystick & everything else is with the Saitek X45 USB joystick.But then, this might not at all apply to your situation.L.Adamson

Very good points raised so far, also I'm curious: is the joystick centered while using the yoke/pedals? If the joystick is connected/enabled and "off-kilter", then the plane would want to go in that direction. My two cents.Again, good luck!-JeremyThe Ozark DogfighterHappy Flying!

CH rudder pedalsEver since 1999? I think I have only had the same driver for all the flight sims in between - fs2k2,fu3,fly,fs9I havent seen any new drivers for the rudder pedals so I have ALWAYS had to go through this procedure every time I start -(calibration irrelavent for this process):The pedals start at the far right:.......|push the pedal to the far right,push the paedal to the far left,thento the right again ...|...the rudders should now be in the central position :)!Give it a try!(It is a driver problem, because once done, the sim can be turned off and on again, and you wont have to worry about this process BUT if you turn your computer off, you will have to repeat it!)ps (Brakes are probably a calibration problem)

I don't understand, when do you do that process? Perhaps the drivers I got were irrelevant, they certainly didn't do any good! Brakes must be a calibration problem but damned if recalibration works. It's not the parking brake incidently, I have figured out how to work that one!! I can live without the throttles, although it is annoying. I can just use 1 of the other 3 levers. But its unflyable at the moment. I'm going to try without pedals etc. I realise I have probably been a bit vague and moany about it rather than trying to find what the problem is.

You have to do it after you start your flightsim - once you have yourself in the cockpit (it doesn't matter if the engine is started).One way to check if you have this problem is to now hit your S key until you are in 'spot view', then position yourself behing the aircraft (shift-2? ) - maybe magnify a bit if you can . If you have the problem, you will see the rudder deflected fully to the right.Proceed as above :-)

I understand the tenor and the gist of your post. I know how you feel.I can relate.:)

Hi JamesO. Here are a few ideas that I don't believe have been mentioned. I'd perform these two steps in order:1. Set all "Reality" settings to minimum. This will negate the effect of engine torque. If your plane tracks straight down the runway now, the problem was torque and you can experiment with the reality settings. If it still turns:2. Disable the yoke/rudder controllers. The keystroke to do that is either "k" or "Ctrl+k". Use the keyboard (Numpad "0" and "Enter") to steer the plane and control the throttle.If step 2 solves the problem, then I suspect that your joystick configuration is at fault. Here's what I've obsertved over three or four years with my CH yoke and pedals. BTW, my devices have USB interfaces; if your's are gameport interfaced, then I don't know if any of these things are meaningful.1. Each time that I have installed a new version of MSFS and each time that I have allowed MSFS to create a new config file, flight sim has misidentified the various axes of both the yoke and pedals. Most often the rudder is assigned to a yoke axis and usually it is one of the levers (prop or mixture, I think). Look under the "Options" menu. I think that you want to follow the path to Options > Controls > Assignments, then click on "Joystick" "Axis" assignments. Hopefully, this will correct both the rudder and throttle problems.2. While you are in the Axis Assignment area, have a look at toe brake axes. The thing to insure here is that "Reverse axis" checkbox is checked. Unless these axes are reversed, thentoes brakes a set when the pedals are in their relaxed state and released when the toe brakes are fully depressed.3. If your devices are USB, then I would urge you to down load the latest drivers from www.chproducts.comYou will find the drivers in the CH Control Manager suite. This allows you to do some fancy button mapping, etc. but even if that is not your goal, I've found these drivers to be much more stable than the defaul Windows drivers.I hope that this helps. R-

Thank you. I had already tried the settings on minimum. And I had "reverse axis" checked and the brakes problem persisted. So what I have done is removed the rudder pedals from my machine altogether. Lo and behold, everything works again (apart from the throttle) and nothing veers off the runway. I would like to use the pedals however, so I am going to try the drivers idea. Dare I say it, whats the word on FS2006?