Yep.  I am now an official convert.  What a marvelously engineered product.  Cannot say enough. Received four days ago and over-the-top happy with the result. Excellent materials, excellent design, precise manufacturing, easy to assemble, relatively easy to calibrate.  I did at the time of my order include some accessory or better called mod items to preclude additional future shipping costs should I have wanted them later.  So at the time of my CW 3 order I included the width adjustment blocks, the optional soft primary spring, and as set of the optional soft brake springs. 

Turns out the width adjustment blocks are the only accessory I ordered that I have installed.  And I mounted the foot pedals through the outside holes to narrow the distance between the pedals (see the related video on the CW website).  In my experience that narrower spacing is more true to what I have experienced with recent rides in both a Baron B55 and a Cessna 310.  I also added a dampener to my CW 3's, sourcing the readily available dampener from Amazon and the dampener mounting bolts and spacers from my local hardware store.  The CW3's have holes with threaded bushings for the dampener installation. 

The combination is flawless!  And I must admit that the price differential between these CW3's and say  the Saitek/Logitech pedals is very much well worth it!.

I too used the adjustment blocks to have the pedals a bit closed together. Too bad I ordered one of the last CW2's so I will need some extra kit to be able to fit a dampener. I also noticed that MFG is now offering combat pedals as well. These might be more realistic for most GA but I am not sure how good they are.

Did you mount the pedals on something? I mounted them on a piece of MDF for stability. 

19 minutes ago, orchestra_nl said:

I too used the adjustment blocks to have the pedals a bit closed together. Too bad I ordered one of the last CW2's so I will need some extra kit to be able to fit a dampener. I also noticed that MFG is now offering combat pedals as well. These might be more realistic for most GA but I am not sure how good they are.

Did you mount the pedals on something? I mounted them on a piece of MDF for stability. 

Not yet.  I have no issues with stability fore-aft when using for flying, ground steering, or braking.  The only stability issue for me has been a tendency to tilt from time to side if I put more weight on one side vs the other.  I learned my way around that pretty quickly.

2 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

So is the damper worth it?

 

I believe so. Changes the character. Return to rest is fluid (no pun intended) and smooth instead of spring-like. Also allows another nice adjustment.  The standard spring tension can of course be fine tuned and then the dampener resistance also has a significant range of adjustment.  Not quite like adjusting the front suspension of an Indycar, LOL!  But certainly an improvement.

CW has been out of his dampener accessory kits for quite some time and the due-in-stock date continues to slide. For the CW 3's the dampener just bolts right into bushings provided in the frame so I was able to source what I needed separately.  However for CW 2's it requires some additional mounting blocks that I do not see available except in his kit.  Another drawback is the shipping cost.  I believe when I considered ordering a dampener kit separately after acquiring the pedals the shipping was almost as much as the cost of the kit itself.

Edited August 11, 20214 yr by fppilot