@Immunol Eventually the problem went away after the different updates.

Have the same Parking brake problem. After  applying the pedal brakes and the relasing I see the sim pedal release and going back down a bit. If I try to push the pedals down a bit the parking brake is released and the plane moves. but one can't hold it like that and it makes for very jerky taxi or take off run. Sure need help with that.

Still having this same issue in December of 2021. I bought Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 about 15 days ago and downloaded and it installed it and it seems like a great flight simulator... except when trying to taxi, my brakes are stuck at what appears to be about 50% pressure after I engage them, and there's nothing I can do to get them to go back to 0%.

Then there was an update, and I got my hopes up. After the update, which took eons to download despite having 100 Mbit internet, I found the problem was persistent.

I guess I have to try to get a refund at this point if they still haven't fixed the problem.

On 12/1/2021 at 9:00 PM, Femboy_On_Your_6 said:

my brakes are stuck at what appears to be about 50% pressure after I engage them, and there's nothing I can do to get them to go back to 0%.

It would appear that others have fixed this by redoing the calibration settings for the toe brakes..

Have another look!

Edited December 3, 20214 yr by Bert Pieke

Hi,

I understand my reply is over 12months from the last but the issue (even after the 40th anniversary update) is still occurring. I only fly the smaller planes (Piper Cub, Cessna 172 152, DC 3 ) and the brakes get stuck if I stop when taxiing .. I use vR and so toggle the park brake to get moving again when taxiing.

As posted earlier "When I apply the brakes fully sometimes it seems to engage a phantom parking brake. The parking brake isn't actually on as I can see it hasn't been engaged but no amount of revs will move the plane unless I tap the parking brake on and off."

Does anyone have any updates or solutions to this problem?

Cheers

Aus67

this is now happening to me since SU15...

any advice would be most welcome,

 

many thanks

Jane

Instead of the command toggle parking break, try assigning the button to "set parking brake" (or something like that, I forget the exact name that MSFS uses). That's what I use. I do believe that it is failsafe, has never failed me in all these years. Toggle parking brake was a nightmare for me.

But you need a toggle or button that stays ON when released but will go off when you flip the toggle back down deliberately (i.e. is not spring loaded to release by itself). Which rules out keyboard keys which unfortunately are spring loaded.

If you have a switch that stays on or off, then assign set parking brake to it. Guaranteed to work!

57 minutes ago, Fielder said:

If you have a switch that stays on or off, then assign set parking brake to it. Guaranteed to work!

I spent some time with a guy from the MSFS dev team early this morning. It turns out not to be a parking brake issue.

Its a weird calibration thing on the pedals themselves. We had to recalibrate a number of times and then it works. I can confirm for anyone seeing this, don't mess with your parking brakes, it is a red herring. Resetting the parking brake on and off just temporarily resets the toe brake calibration.

The poster above was correct in that in the game device calibration, you have to ensure that after calibrating your pedals the cursor in the calibration window sits and the bottom right hand corner of the window. It took us a few attempts to convince it today! Once that calibration is finally successful the problem goes away. (We tried this with a number of pedal manufacturers). It seems to be an issue in the windows game device calibration.

Again, it is not a parking brake issue, that just temporarily unsticks the brakes, so avoid going down that rabbit hole if this happens to you. It is a pedal calibration issue confirmed now.

Hope that helps others who may see this issue! Happy to help out anyone who also sees this happening.

all the best (and thank you Fielder for your help!)

Jane

Know some of the posts are older, but this apparently is still an ongoing issue, so hopefully this helps someone.

After being frustrated by this since setting up MSFS, and having read the comments of others here, I have a solution that, so far, has worked fine for me.

As others have said, it's a rudder/brake calibration issue.

I'm using Thrustmaster T-rudders, but hopefully the following applies to those using joystick rudders and brakes.

The problem I have here is MSFS can't work out what the centre point of the brakes are on the rudder pedals.  So, keeps automatically kicking in brakes after landing and taxiing, and as others point out, you keep having to turn the park brake on and off every time, which is a pain in the butt.

So, I calibrated my rudders as follows:

First, make sure nothing else in MSFS on the keyboard or mouse is set to utilise brakes, toe or park, apart from those you specifically want to use.
Open Windows setting, and search for "controllers"
Click "Set up USB game controllers"
Click on the controller (in my case, my T-rudder pedals)
Go to "properties", "settings", "reset to default" (although you might reset other stuff if not using dedicated rudders, so maybe skip this step), "Calibrate".
In the "Welcome to the device calibration wizard" and click "next"
It says "Find Center point.  Leave handle centered and press a button on the controller".  Rather than leave brakes off, I pressed the toe brakes on both sides of the rudders ON, then while pressing them, clicked "next".  I assume if you're using joystick, hold the brake button on (regular, not park brakes), and click next.
In "Axis calibration", move the tow brakes without moving the rudder pedals themselves several times to set limits, then press "next"
In "Verify Center Point" again hold brakes on (rudder R+L for rudder pedals) and while holding them on, press 'Next"
For Z axis calibration, slide rudder pedals forward and back as normal to set limits, then press "next"
Finally, click "Finish" then "Apply"

I've tested this multiple times, and every time I do, both the toe brakes and park brakes work properly when taxiing and trying to taxi from a standing stop after landing, or after applying toe brakes.  When I calibrated without the brakes held on to center, the problem recurred.

This has fixed it for me, and I'd be interested if it works for others too, as well as those without dedicated rudders, as it's been a damned ongoing nuisance.

Cheers

Rocko

 

 

On 7/11/2024 at 10:33 AM, Rocko said:

Know some of the posts are older, but this apparently is still an ongoing issue, so hopefully this helps someone.

After being frustrated by this since setting up MSFS, and having read the comments of others here, I have a solution that, so far, has worked fine for me.

As others have said, it's a rudder/brake calibration issue.

I'm using Thrustmaster T-rudders, but hopefully the following applies to those using joystick rudders and brakes.

The problem I have here is MSFS can't work out what the centre point of the brakes are on the rudder pedals.  So, keeps automatically kicking in brakes after landing and taxiing, and as others point out, you keep having to turn the park brake on and off every time, which is a pain in the butt.

So, I calibrated my rudders as follows:

First, make sure nothing else in MSFS on the keyboard or mouse is set to utilise brakes, toe or park, apart from those you specifically want to use.
Open Windows setting, and search for "controllers"
Click "Set up USB game controllers"
Click on the controller (in my case, my T-rudder pedals)
Go to "properties", "settings", "reset to default" (although you might reset other stuff if not using dedicated rudders, so maybe skip this step), "Calibrate".
In the "Welcome to the device calibration wizard" and click "next"
It says "Find Center point.  Leave handle centered and press a button on the controller".  Rather than leave brakes off, I pressed the toe brakes on both sides of the rudders ON, then while pressing them, clicked "next".  I assume if you're using joystick, hold the brake button on (regular, not park brakes), and click next.
In "Axis calibration", move the tow brakes without moving the rudder pedals themselves several times to set limits, then press "next"
In "Verify Center Point" again hold brakes on (rudder R+L for rudder pedals) and while holding them on, press 'Next"
For Z axis calibration, slide rudder pedals forward and back as normal to set limits, then press "next"
Finally, click "Finish" then "Apply"

I've tested this multiple times, and every time I do, both the toe brakes and park brakes work properly when taxiing and trying to taxi from a standing stop after landing, or after applying toe brakes.  When I calibrated without the brakes held on to center, the problem recurred.

This has fixed it for me, and I'd be interested if it works for others too, as well as those without dedicated rudders, as it's been a damned ongoing nuisance.

Cheers

Rocko

 

 

Very good Rocko, this fixed the problem for me totally! Thanks!

12 hours ago, Asimov6 said:

Very good Rocko, this fixed the problem for me totally! Thanks!

I'm having somewhat similar problems with the parking brake in the PMDG 737-600 and 800.  Pressing the parking brake does not work unless the brakes are pressed when the parking brakes are engaged.  But this has and still is an intermittent issue for me. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. 

On 12/3/2021 at 6:07 AM, Bert Pieke said:

It would appear that others have fixed this by redoing the calibration settings for the toe brakes..

Have another look!

I have been having this problem for a couple weeks now, not sure if was an update did it as I had left the sim alone for some months and had updates when I returned to it recently.

I have tried recalibrating but I'll give it another go.

 

....OK tried again and its still being funky, what specifically happens to me is that after using one of the toe brakes to help turn while taxiing as soon as I release the brake on that side it actuates and locks the brake on the opposite site, weird and very frustrating

 

P.S. all appears fine when on the calibration screens with none of this cross-functioning lock up business making itself visible

 

Edited January 3, 20251 yr by Rusty Spanner

Guys, I experienced exactly the same isue recently. I found, depending on where or how you configured your brakes, in FSUIPC or MSFS, that if you have this problem, then simply tick or untick, the small boxes next to the settings slider marked 'reverse' or 'reverse axis.' This did it for me. I had to do this on sveral aircraft.

Just found out what was causing the problem for me, in the section for brakes in setup there are actually 2 sets of options one for toggle brake axis and another just named brake.

The option named simply "Brake" (left and right)  toggles that brake on and off basically making it  an asymmetric park brake.

I found entries in this section that I certainly didnt input.

I sometime wonder if Asobo devs live in some alternative dimension