Saitek Pro Flight Cessna Rudder Pedals - Not Working

[PilotGaryB]

Hello,

I have the Saitek Pro Flight Cessna Rudder Pedals which work very well in X-Plane. I tested them as well on Windows 10 doing the device test. Again, worked very well.

When I try to set the pedals up in MSFS 2020 it seems impossible and I think there is a bug in MSFS 2020. I can set up the toe brakes just fine. These use both the X & Y axis. Then there is one axis left which I confirmed the the Saitek manual… the Z axis, which is for the rudder control. So I try to set up the RUDDER AXIS with the JOYSTICK R AXIS Z.

The problem is the rudder does not start off centered. I can press the right pedal all the way and the bar moves all the way to the right. But when I release the bar goes all the way to the left. Technically the bar should stay in the CENTER. AND I tested this in both X-Plane and the Windows 10 Device test…and again in both cases the ball remains centered. When I press on the left pedal nothing happens.

I tried to separate the Rudder Axis and tried Rudder Axis Right and Rudder Axis Left. BUT, as I mentioned, the manual says there are only 3 axis, X,Y, & Z and technically the rudder only has the one axis Z left. So adding using the Rudder Axis would be the only option.

Also, I went to the Saitek website and updated the drivers from the rudder pedals and restarted the computer.

And yes I tried to calibrate it in the settings sensitivity. The center dot remained in the bottom left corner no matter what setting I changed.

I have spent many many hours on this problem, I 'm hoping somebody can help. I don’t want to buy new pedals as the Saitek Pro Flight Cessna Rudder Pedals are top notch and work very well. Just not in MSFS. Right now I have the rudder controlled by the Pilot Assist, however being a real pilot, this is a real drag not being able to use them!

Thanks for any advice.

[HeikoJ2709]

I recently had problems with the toe brakes starting from 50% pressure. Here is a link to the thread:

Thrustmaster TPR Rudder pedal issues

Yes I use it for DCS too, I also so that warning but too late, I have to plug my Warthogs and try it again, but I’m sure everything will be fine since as of last week I was playing DCS because my A320 wouldn’t taxi in MSFS 2020, I even thought it was Pushback express or a bad binding but when I saw the pedals axis I realized something was not right and started troubleshooting. I don’t remember if I had messed with the windows calibration already when playing with DCS, but I will try it later and…

@HeikoJ2709

So I uninstalled the logitech drivers. Didn’t help at first. Drivers were still active even after a restart. So I went to the registry, searched for ‘rudder’ and tried to delete every key with ‘rudder’ in it, oh boy. I was not allowed to delete every key (yes, started the registry editor in admin mode), but it was enough. After the next restart the Logitech driver was gone and the default MS driver was active.

I then went into the rudder settings and reset it to default and what a relief and joy: I now have the full way from 0 to 100% with my toe brakes back in place.

You have a different problem, I know, but I think the root cause has something to do with the drivers and the calibration.

Good luck!

[Mihaita]

Similar problem here on Saitek Cessna pedals, they tend to “drop out”, sometime in mid flight or on landing… very irritating. What is strange though is that the in game controller page setting reports that all is ok and the pedals test well with the white bars moving accordingly on the test page as it should.

[ILoveTrains3050]

Same here, working in fs2020 though