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Can you use MSFS without dedicated rudder pedals?

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I plan on getting a Honeycomb Yoke and Throttle Quadrant for MSFS and would like to know if I'll be able to fly and operate my planes without a dedicated rudder pedals? I plan to get that later down the road.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hard work and not very realistic but yes, you can...

 

I would say given you've gone to the trouble of splashing out on Honeycomb Yoke and Throttle a little bit extra would raise the bar.

 

You can pick up a cheap pair of pedals on ebay..They add so much to the experience of as real as it gets..

  • 1 month later...

Would recommend Milan Flight Gear for when you decide to get the pedals. Personally I used flight sims without rudder pedals for quite a while before I finally got them and would say that having the pedals makes a big difference. Rudder assist will help you make coordinated turns which is fine but sometimes you need to apply rudder and ailerons in a way that isn't a coordinated turn (such as during crosswind landings etc). It's definitely worth getting. 

Rudders would be very good but not strictly necessary. Some alternatives:

Joystick (unmap everything, assign rudder to either the roll axis or yaw axis)
Yoke (map to hold a button+roll axis or a few switches+roll axis to act as a rudder-- excellent for ground steering, not so good for takeoff/landing)
Throttle (map it to a throttle axis, so 100% power turns one direction and 0% power turns the other direction)

I use a combination of joystick (twist/yaw axis) and yoke (hold a button+roll axis). The joystick also controls where I'm looking as the hat switch lets me look left/right. A button or two is mapped to also reset the camera. The yoke's hat switch is for preset quick-views and down-down-Left/Right for instrument/panel views. The keyboard's arrows lets me shift the camera left/right/up/down from where the camera's looking.

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I have tried everything over the years and now prefer just a joystick with twist action for the rudder.  Plus my wife says I look silly pretending behind yokes and pedals etc!  Maybe because I am a real-life recreational pilot I get enough of the real thing that way?  Cheers.

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