Re: Car racing pedals in flight gear

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:17:35 +0200, Viktor wrote in message 
<CANx-tGiPxfrODdpU+hk5Amh_r2+JCJtR64qcPMOW6Smuvi-ugA@mail.gmail.com>:
> > On Oct 7, 2011 8:56 PM, "Rafael Anschau" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, I noticed flight pedals are not very cheap, but there are much
> > cheaper pedals that come with a driver wheel control(for car racing
> > games). Can those pedals be used in flight gear to simulate the
> > rudder ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Rafael
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sadly, no. Flight pedals are not independent like the accelerator and
> brake on a car. 

..er, in some (rare?) cases they are, e.g. some canard aircraft use one
sided wing tip "brake flaps" "as rudders", "stomp one pedal to yaw that
way, stomp both to slow down." 

> They pivot in the  middle. When you push one in, the
> other comes out. They also have toe brakes which let you steer by
> braking the left and right main wheel independently. Maybe you could
> simulate just the toe brakes though.
> 
> But I defnitely recommend getting proper pedals - twisting the
> joystick will never give you the  same control or feel.
> 
> Cheers,
> Vik
> 


-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a
definitive record of customers, application performance, security
threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes
sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct