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Hi I have been flight siming for quite sometime and recently made the Jump to real world piloting both fixed wing and rotary aircraft. The Jury is not in on these yet. You`ll get a real thrill/chill and a sense of accomplishment. The only thing one does not quite experience is the actual mechanical tactile elements and forces of "G" associated with real world flying. We have Joy Lt Scott St. Otherwise When in X-Plane, FX or 2004 Microsoft programs you are real as you program it. The fellas I fly fixed wing with and my instructor for rotary aircraft all agree that my use of flight programs with this equipment has translated into a more fluid, focused training experience. Try landing on the pitching deck of a carrier in Lomac IL2 or Pacific fighters.
This is also true of older Ubisoft titles which fly well and much more acurately than with Logitech controller Sticks. Logitech has just come out with controllers like Ch-Products and Saitek. Especially when battle dam-aged I love CH-Products READ what you can do W/CMS Software. John
I also use Fusion/Windows and fly MS Simulator X with no issues. I've been very pleased with the CH Pro Pedals. I have a IMAC 24" and purchased XPlane and the pedals work perfectly. Great product. Well built, heavy so they don't slide on the floor.
Have only tried the unit with light aircraft so don't know how it funtions with the heavys or the choppers. No real complaints, it adds a lot of realism and allows forward and side slips as well as realistic spin recovery.
It is being used with Microsofts's Flight Simulator X and it was plug in the USB cable and start flying. This unit functioned as advertised and took no knowledge to install.
The pedals don't have quite the same feedback as the real thing but that was expected, its a computer not a Cessna. The pilot's legs get a bit fatigued because there seems to be a different angle from a real cockpit.
A different computer seat helps relieve the condition. The unit is heavy enough to pretty much stay positioned on the floor and is light enough to easily move out of the way when not flying.
Probably won't try them as I know that if it doesn't have a propeller, it can't fly.
Build quality is good, and anybody who wants to really jump on the pedals real hard should reflect on whether they would want to do this to a Cessna. I was pedaling completely the wrong way, and made a bad condition worse. You set up with the stick one way and the pedals slightly the other. Plug them into the USB, then install the CH Control Manager off CD.
I'm happy to say that, starting from dangerously bad, I can now do perfect still-wind landings, and decent cross-wind ones. I leave the CH Control Manager program running - seems to work better that way. Anyway, when I resume from Sleep, I have to "Rescan" to make the pedals work - this takes a couple of seconds. At the start of my fifth flying lesson, I made a frighteningly bad takeoff in a crosswind. For less than the cost of 2 lessons, this is a real investment for anybody learning to fly.A quick note on the matching Yoke - works fine, my only complaint is that the Trim control is way too sensitive and difficult to use. Make sure you research what you are supposed to do with the controls to counter crosswinds.
On the ground, pedal action is realistically delayed. I found that performing extended runway takeoffs on part throttle really helped make pedaling second nature.
Trim, though, is the easiest of the major controls to learn.I did not compare (other than by reading the reviews ) the competing Saitek parts. It was clear I needed to develop some pedal skills without bruising anything more substantial than my ego.The CH pedals work great on my no-name quad core homebrew Vista 64 box.
You will, too.Amazon offers a package complete with the matching Yoke and the FSX software. I do not have any problem with the pedals sliding around on the carpet.Pedal skills come along quite rapidly.
You will obviously start in calm conditions, then add crosswinds. It saves a small amount and is worth considering.
These CH parts work fine for me.
Items appear to work as promised. The unit is used as a rudder control for flight simulation in a high performance aircraft for approach and engine out training and service its purpose, so far.It is used with the Xplane 9 system on a MacBook Pro coupled with a FreeBSD 7 based slave system. The pedal motions are similar to those expected in an actual aircraft. There are no true force feedback actions, but this is expected in controls used for a PC style simulator. No problems to date. Works as promised.
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