Rudder pedals

[ZombieHunter]

Anyone have a good suggestion for rudder pedals? All of the sets that I see have this annoying heel rest on the bottom of the pedal. And while that might be nice to rest your foot on the pedal NO ONE flies like this. Toes at the bottom of the pedals and heels to the floor. Kinda hard to do with the raised lip at the bottom of the pedal.

[Razamanaz]

I know Thrustmaster makes some with removable heel rests.

[Sandhill]

Racing/driving pedals work well enough and if you have them the price is right

[Bullett]

Thrustmaster Pendular Rudder Pedals. Expensive but much more realistic.

[John W]

I have the Thrustmaster T1600 Flight Pack and use the rudder pedals that came with that. They work well enough.

https://www.amazon.com/ThrustMaster-2960764-Thrustmaster-TFRP-Rudder/dp/B015PII6YI/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Thrustmaster+rudder+pedals&qid=1625271349&sr=8-2

https://www.amazon.com/ThrustMaster-T-16000M-Flight-Joystick-Black/dp/B01HZ2APKU/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=Thrustmaster+rudder+pedals&qid=1625271373&sr=8-10

[Twelvefield]

Your desk posture is different from your posture in an aircraft cockpit, unless you have a very ergonomic desk setup. Having the wrong pedals will really hurt your ankles and knees.

The basic Logitech/Saetek pedals aren't too bad for posture, really. The lower end Thrustmaster pedals are too close to one another and they will hurt. The pendular ones, well, those are nice.

Racing pedals aren't all that great: no differential brakes. They can also really wreck your knees at an office style desk. However, you don't need them all that often compared to driving a race car.

[ZombieHunter]

I bought the Logitech / Saitek Pro ones. We will see how they work out. I can't believe I haven't ever bought any. Twist rudder is awful. About to break my hand trying to do crosswind landings.

[Sandhill]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

Racing pedals aren't all that great: no differential brakes. They can also really wreck your knees at an office style desk. However, you don't need them all that often compared to driving a race car.

If you already own them, they are free, and they do work, as long as you have a three pedal set. Two pedal sets need not apply. In my cockpit it would take a hour to go from aircraft to auto and an hour to go back. Most folks probably don't face that problem. End of real positives.
As the pedals are not physically linked, you can activate both at once...not as intuitive or realistic, in that sense, as purpose built aircraft pedals.

Yes, no toe brakes, although even some good rudders pedals (the cheapest Virpil, VKB although VKB provides a bit of a software work around) do not have toe brakes. I have gotten to where I can fly any of the DCS warbirds that really really demand toe brakes pretty well using other axis I have available, but were I to go shopping for rudder pedals I would want brakes.

I had an older Saitek Pro Pedal set, a mix of metal and plastic, and it was pretty junky. I escaped from it by selling locally when the MSFS induced peripheral crunch hit.
If not for my problem switching pedal sets I'd just bite the bullet and grab either Virpil or Crosswind and be done with it, buy once cry once, and I think if you pay for plastic crap that is what you get.

[ZombieHunter]

My wheel is a Logitech G27 and those pedals are built for racing not flying.

[startrekmike]

The MFG Crosswinds have swappable pedals and you can purchase Cessna like pedals for it. You could probably contact the guy who runs the company and see about just getting a set with those alternate pedals already attached.

[Mondyrocks]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

My wheel is a Logitech G27 and those pedals are built for racing not flying.

I used to own the thustmaster rudder pedals, the black ones with the removable heel rests and they were truly awful.

I now use my Thrustmaster T3PA pro racing pedals.
Set them to "combined" in the game controller settings and you can use the brake and accelerator pedals as your rudder.
This gives far more control than the rudder pedals (no doubt there are some good rudder pedals available, but the black thrustmaster ones don't fall into this category, imho.
They don't move then when you apply a tiny bit more pressure they move miles too far, they also have a much bigger footprint because of the way they work).

You lose toe brakes but that's more than manageable.
I actually use the clutch pedal as a brake anyway.

This is the beauty of this sim.
I use a honeycomb yoke, my old saitek yoke is connected just for the throttle quadrant (it's not the usb quadrant unfortunately) and my T300 wheel is connected for my racing sims and the pedals double up as rudders.

So, imo, using racing pedals is an excellent way to save money and space and is far better than using a joystick twist function for rudder.

Maybe it will be frowned upon by purists but it's truly excellent with very good rudder finesse.
Of course, you need a racing wheel to start with, lol.

Happy flying all :)

[Twelvefield]

I've got the G29, I agree, not good for flight, not without making modifications. I know those can be done, but then racing would suffer. And knees.

I've seen a lot of combinations in my years of flight sim, from military trainers all the way down to an XBOX controller nailed to the floor with its joystick replaced by a broom handle. I think the most unusual device I've ever come across was someone using a stenographer's pad to fly FSX. If you've never truly seen one work it can't easily be described, but as long as it reads as a USB controller you can fly with it. There are keys, and there is a foot pedal. Some steno sets come with multiple pedals.

[Buktu]

Thrustmaster TPR Pendular Rudders. Good price at the moment at amazon.de at around 378 €.

[Rever]

This game is great. It brings together people who complain about having to pay $60 for the game with people who think spending $400 just for rudder pedals is a good price. LOL

[Buktu]

Originally posted by Rever:

This game is great. It brings together people who complain about having to pay $60 for the game with people who think spending $400 just for rudder pedals is a good price. LOL

No, they could not be more apart from each other.

[Rever]

Originally posted by Buktu:

Originally posted by Rever:

This game is great. It brings together people who complain about having to pay $60 for the game with people who think spending $400 just for rudder pedals is a good price. LOL

No, they could not be more apart from each other.

Yes but they are both here.