Hey everyone! I'm new to the forum. I've come in search of a solution. I just purchased Xplane 12 about a week ago. I focus almost exclusively on flying helicopters. I have limited space at my desk that doesn't allow for racing pedals AND rudder pedals, so I'm hoping to setup my G29 racing pedals as rudder pedals. I fully understand that this will not be anywhere near as authentic as actual rudder pedals, but it will have to do for now.

So far, I have managed to get the rudder function to work with just the accelerator pedal. If you depress the pedal halfway, that's the neutral middle. If you release the pedal, that's right rudder. If you depress the  pedal fully, that's left rudder. Naturally, this setup is not ideal. Holding the pedal down the entire flight gets old real quick, haha. Does anyone know how to set it up so that I can use one pedal for left rudder and another pedal for right rudder? 

3 hours ago, MrMcQuade said:

Hey everyone! I'm new to the forum. I've come in search of a solution. I just purchased Xplane 12 about a week ago. I focus almost exclusively on flying helicopters. I have limited space at my desk that doesn't allow for racing pedals AND rudder pedals, so I'm hoping to setup my G29 racing pedals as rudder pedals. I fully understand that this will not be anywhere near as authentic as actual rudder pedals, but it will have to do for now.

So far, I have managed to get the rudder function to work with just the accelerator pedal. If you depress the pedal halfway, that's the neutral middle. If you release the pedal, that's right rudder. If you depress the  pedal fully, that's left rudder. Naturally, this setup is not ideal. Holding the pedal down the entire flight gets old real quick, haha. Does anyone know how to set it up so that I can use one pedal for left rudder and another pedal for right rudder? 

Go into Xplane and start it up and open the "Open the settings" in the (upper right ) window and then click on Joystick. Now I have Saitek Pro rudder pedals so I baseing it on that configuration. It may be difference on yours but you need to select or configure your in the device for Pedals or rudder pedals for you racing pedels. It should be or configured three settings "Right Toe" for Right brake, "Left Toe" for left brake and "Both Pedals" for Yaw. Then, there is a click box for "Reverse Axis" and that will reverse the assignment of the peddles. I hope that helps  if it works. 

4 hours ago, MrMcQuade said:

Hey everyone! I'm new to the forum. I've come in search of a solution. I just purchased Xplane 12 about a week ago. I focus almost exclusively on flying helicopters. I have limited space at my desk that doesn't allow for racing pedals AND rudder pedals, so I'm hoping to setup my G29 racing pedals as rudder pedals. I fully understand that this will not be anywhere near as authentic as actual rudder pedals, but it will have to do for now.

So far, I have managed to get the rudder function to work with just the accelerator pedal. If you depress the pedal halfway, that's the neutral middle. If you release the pedal, that's right rudder. If you depress the  pedal fully, that's left rudder. Naturally, this setup is not ideal. Holding the pedal down the entire flight gets old real quick, haha. Does anyone know how to set it up so that I can use one pedal for left rudder and another pedal for right rudder? 

In the G29's driver menu you should see an option as "combine gas/brake axis" or some sort, that works on my G27.

On 11/9/2022 at 5:53 AM, BobFS88 said:

Go into Xplane and start it up and open the "Open the settings" in the (upper right ) window and then click on Joystick. Now I have Saitek Pro rudder pedals so I baseing it on that configuration. It may be difference on yours but you need to select or configure your in the device for Pedals or rudder pedals for you racing pedels. It should be or configured three settings "Right Toe" for Right brake, "Left Toe" for left brake and "Both Pedals" for Yaw. Then, there is a click box for "Reverse Axis" and that will reverse the assignment of the peddles. I hope that helps  if it works. 

Unfortunately, no luck. 😞 I hope they do any update at some point that allows for more peripherals to be recognized and settings that pertain more to helicopters.

On 11/9/2022 at 5:57 AM, C2615 said:

In the G29's driver menu you should see an option as "combine gas/brake axis" or some sort, that works on my G27.

I found the option in the G Hub that you mentioned, but this unfortunately had no effect on the game settings in X Plane 12 for setting up the pedals for rudder for helicopter 😞 

Thank you for the help so far. It looks like I will have to wait for more people to have the same issue and it will eventually get some attention, which will hopefully lead to a solution/update that sorts out the issue.

1 hour ago, MrMcQuade said:

I found the option in the G Hub that you mentioned, but this unfortunately had no effect on the game settings in X Plane 12 for setting up the pedals for rudder for helicopter 😞 

It should make gas/brake combined as one axis thus you can make that combined axis as your rudder? It's mainly for casual racing game that have one go/stop axis for controller

When it's ticked, see if the axis report in XP settings shows an axis in middle and move with both gas and brake pedal.

I have never used it, so I could be wrong.

Worked for me! I have the PS4 version of the G29 (set the selector to PS3 to use the wheel as an auxilary), plugged into my computer. I had to combine the pedals in the logitech driver as they said above. You still have to press all the pedals for calibration, but then there was no problem using gas/brake to control yaw!

Thanks for the tips everyone