posted 01-29- 12:18 AM               

Some sticks work with pedals and some don't. Give a little more info and we'll let you know if there may be a conflict.

For example, I saw a review for a set of rudder pedals that work with Microsoft joysticks, but they aren't cheap.

posted 01-29- 09:18 AM               

Any non-USB pedals works on the principle of using a second joystick input. Tou normally have only one connector on your soundcard. Some pins are assigned to joy A the others Joy B. Thus your X-axis JoyB input will receive a voltage from your rudder pedals pot while Y-axis pot will pretend to be a throttle.
Some sticks (Logitech including) may have problems when designers of their software "forget" about the ruder and the throttle. Logitech for instance fixed their drivers which in early release blocked the information from the voltage sensors of the X-axis B thus disabling rudder pedals. Theyfixed it at an later stage. My logitech still won't allow an external "potentiometer" throttle to be seen by windoze.

With all USB setup you are at the mercy of the makers of your hardware I'm afraid. While I can connect any given 100 kohm pot to joystick inputs and use it for a throttle or ruder such manipulations are impossible with USB. The price of progress Aha, and the Logitech people tell me they won't fix their drivers to allow use of external throttles they are too busy with new projects, bummer...

At the moment I'm flying without pedals so I can understand your situation (it sucks) so...

Good luck

posted 01-29- 10:35 AM               

All in all, I did not like using the pedals, the twist joystick is much more practical and feels real good to me. Sure, pedals are better for a feeling of really flying, but as soon as the novalty wears off you have to deal with a big clunky thing that does not fit uner the desk right.

What I really want is a real life-size between the knees flight stick!!!

posted 01-29- 03:54 PM            

Not even gonna think of buying any now
I'll definatly try the DIY way.

I love those links to others designs too!

posted 01-30- 04:00 AM               

Mine were a DIY lash up. Even without looking at your page I'm sure I won't find anythig like them.

It was an inverted "T" (upside down) shape thing made of two narrow strips of plywood with an axle made of a nail holding it on a piece of laminated chipboard. The linear slider pot was mounted at the top of inverted T letter stem. The stem itself was being held from both sides by pretentioned rubber bands (lots of them ). The cost was the cost of the pot exactly (I went for quality there - no spikes for me ).

It was a pre-prototype jobbie borne out of frustration caused by inavailability of any pedals in the stores and lashed up within an hour. Once under my desk and out of sight it served me (well...) rather well until the time of moving. I just chucked it, I've kept the pot though, I might want to build a proper set one day (I know I will).

Now going to check your site

Good luck all

posted 01-31- 10:50 AM            

For the ultimate unscrew the handle from the shaft and attach the correct length of pipe (use plastic plumbing pipe)screw the handle to the top of the new stick then add wire extensions to all the wires leading to your hat, buttons, ect that are on the handle, tape them up and you have a custom floor stick!

This will take some simple engineering and bashing so be careful.

The MS stick is way sensitive in SDOE and this will tame it down and give you that flying feeling for sure. I does cover a wide area so trim the stick to get the sensitivity and swing you want.

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