Would like to ask anyone else who has these pedals. Mine just arrived today and I checked the calibration in the Windows control panel. The rudder axis is fine and looks accurate, but the brake axes (both) are jumping the first half of their travel and then gradually increasing in movement over the remainder of the travel.
So to try and explain better, when I press the left toe brake the cursor (which is in the top-left of the box to start with) drops to the middle of the box immediately, then slowly moves down to the bottom.
If I apply the right toe brake, the cursor jumps to the centre of the top of the box, then moves gradually to the right edge as I continue the movement.
I’m well impressed with the hardware, but this tracking of the axes seems wrong. Basically like a digital axis to start with - on or off - then analogue for the last 50%. I’ve had many pedals over the years and none have behaved in this way. I did do the firmware update power cycle and it made no difference.
Wondering if this is standard for these pedals?
PS insisting on certain pre-defined tags for this is just ridiculous. Almost made me delete and go elsewhere.
I tested this today with the Windows “Game Controllers” app, which I think is what you are using.
The “+” symbol starts in the upper left. For me is moves linearly across to the upper right with input from the left toe brake, returning to the upper left after I release. It moves linearly down to the lower left when applying the right toe brake, returning normally when released.
So I do not see the “jump” to 50%.
I don’t recall doing any special setups with my rudders after I purchased them. I guess you could check to see if there are any firmware upgrades, (EDIT: I see you already did this) and you could try the “Calibrate” feature in the same Game Controllers app if you haven’t yet. Good luck.
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I didn’t had to do a thing, plug and play for me in both 2020-2024. I adjusted in MSFS setting the sensitifity for PMDG.
I have the TB rudder pedals and they work fine. Did you download and install the plugin from the TB website?
I did all calibration while in MSFS. Go to controls, select the TB rudder pedals then set sensitivity etc.
They work fine in MSFS - both versions, but they are not the only sims I fly.
I did try to calibrate them with the windows control panel function, didn’t make any difference - just made the jump more obvious.
Please have a look at this video which demonstrates the problem well - I checked the axis behaviour in the DCS World UI (which shows the exact percentage of travel) and it showed this exact same behaviour - even moving the toebrake just 1mm makes the cursor jump to 50%:
*video deleted as the pedals have been returned
Just a quick update - I was about to make a video of the DCS World axis UI which clearly demonstrates the condition, I found that today not only is the rudder pedals listed twice in the controls UI - also in the windows control UI shown in the video above, but there are no axes listed at all, no calibration possible and thus no input - either rudder or toebrake.
So I would say they are definitely defective and I’m returning them. I will order a new set, but if I have any issues with those I’ll go back to my Cessna Pro pedals - not ideal and had them a long time, but there is nothing else on the market that suits me and my half-numb feet.
Thanks for your input.
