Hi,
I have a separate tiller for steering the nose wheel (in P3dv4 it’s the steering axis).
Does MSFS2020 have a seperate mapping to control the nose wheel?
Thanks for reply
That is also one thing that really concerns me. Though there is the option of “set steering” in the control settings, it doesn’t do anything for me. Instead, only the rudder controls the nose wheel. Did anyone report this problem to Zendesk?
Ideally, the rudder would only deflect the nose wheel by around 7 degrees (for A320) for those of us who choose to use an additional tiller axis.
You are correct. This particular input does nothing. I know in the Aerosoft A320 you have the option of using the tiller and P3Dv4 has a Steering Axis.
Also it seems the rudder pedals in the MS A320NEO allows more than 7 degrees and with toe brakes I can steer the aircraft. But would be nice to use my dedicated tiller.
BTW I reported it to the ZenDesk
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Thanks, let’s see what they come up with. I fear it might not have there upmost priority. Even though I think that the ability to assign such axes as a tiller is fundamental for a flightsim and should be included in the Sim itself, FSUIPC might bring the option we need.
There is a free version of FSUIPC 7 available until the end of October, but I don’t see that it can work, since it only sends commands to the simulator that you need to select. So which command for steering would you send from FSUIPC to the Sim?
There is a special “steering tiller” setting in FSUIPC, which “is just another rudder control, but one which you can calibrate differently, so to give possibly more control. When both the tiler and the rudder are assigned and calibrated “direct to FSUIPC calibration”, FSUIPC balances the actual rudder control between the two – whilst on the ground with an airspeed of less than 60 knots (adjustable by parameters) the control is gradually transferred from one to the other.” Quote from Pete Dowson from https://forum.simflight.com/topic/68238-how-to-set-up-tiller-nose-wheel-steering/
On the other hand I just realized that the “set steering” option acutally seems to be for the tiller axis, it is just that the default airplanes don’t seem to support it. Let’s hope the payware aircrafts (or mods) do support it and also limit the deflection of the noswheel from the rudder to 7 degrees.
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You are correct. The standard airliners do NOT support the tiller. Hopefully Aerosoft or FSLabs will come out with a Bus. I am sure PMDG is working on the Boeing side.
All the best with MSFS2020
Thanks - for you too! ^^
nosewheel steering with a joystick must be independent of rudder control, especially on ground operations, taxi, takeoff and landing , l can’t hold the airplane on center line, making zigzags, left and right deflections.
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Currently all aircraft are steered using the rudder pedals. Irl this isn’t the case as not every aircraft is directly linked. This means the use of differential braking, steering tiller etc. It would be great to have realistic ground handling as an option that can be enabled/disabled as currently it is silly coming from real aircraft to this.
Yeah agree completely… takeoffs are no fun and highly unrealistic. And landings are a dreaded thought… i can fly land most turbo prop aircraft… this needs fixing.
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I have the same problem ,I use TCA control it .This problem seems a usually problem,I want to know how to solve it
thank you for respond, l have a question : what is TCA? how do you control nosewheel steering?
Thrustmaster the new Airbus control, its Z seems to have problem ,you cant control it when you land .It seems to be locked . You cant turn right or left.But it is normal when you taxi before you taking off
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That is true for real aircraft too, certainly in the Cessna 152/172’s you control the nose wheel with the rudder pedals.
Have you calibrated your joystick axes in the windows joy.cpl program?
I want to have a button assignment to switch the joystick axis between tiller and rudder. That’s how it should be. Oh, I guess that requires seperate simulation of rudder and tiller. So that’s needed as well it seems. 
yes, ı have calibrated my joystick, less sensitivity is better for nosewheel steering with joystick yaw axis, but l don’t have rudder pedals. l can control rudder with joystick therefore ı don’t thing to buy rudder pedals.
Yes, but what I meant was in a real aircraft you use the same controls for nose wheel steering and rudder. You don’t have seperate controls for each so why do you need them in the sim?
I have my Hotas stick rudder on the joystick twist axis and this also controls the nose wheel steering without any problems.
Depends on the A/C. On the airliners you only have limited control on the nose-wheel steering with the rudder (usually around 8º), and you use the tiller to steer during taxi, which gives you full deflection of around 75-80º.
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