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Summary: Good product--limited use
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I have a new Gateway 1.8 GHz computer, with 512 MB of RAM and my older Flightstick Pro was reluctant to work with the new machine, although it and the Pro Pedals both worked fine on the old AMD K6 (350)with Jane's WWII Fighters and other games.
So, I ordered a new pair of CH Pro Rudder Pedals for USB port connectors. Also a new Flightstick Pro USB. The Flightstick immediately worked fine, but Jane's WWII Fighters does not support the USB rudder pedals. Unfortunate, because in my opinion Jane's is the best simulator game around. Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 works fine with the USB devices, but you must go into settings after the game is running and set the assignments for the rudder pedals. First, remove all the assignments that may be currently assigned to the rudder pedals (typically ailerons and elevators --X and Y axes) and scroll down to rudder function and change assignment until it shows the Z axis (slider). The throttle will also show the Z axis. Don't worry about the apparent duplication. Both are sliders and both will work. In a nutshell, the rudders work except for the toe brakes. So far there is no application (game) that supports CH's toe brake on the market, but they assure us that some will come along in the near future. I like CH's products, perhaps because I've used them for years. I like the sliding function of the rudder pedals, which simulate an airplane's pedals very well. It's just too bad that they are ahead of the market, with a product that doesn't work on the older games. A solution looking for a problem. Joseph H. Pierre
author of The Road to Damascus and other books
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Summary: CH Pedals are good but don't buy from Proactive Electronics
Review: CH Pedals are the BEST. My only problem is that I've purchased the product from Proactive Electronics!! Don't buy a thing from this reseller!! They were quick charging the $122 dollars to my credit card on 3/22/2004 but until today, the product has not been received. Went to fedEx to track the shipment with the tracking number emailed to me by Proactive Electronics 1.5 weeks after placing my order, and the manifest shows it was delivered to another address. After a quick call to FedEx they told me it wasn't their fault because Proactive Electronics entered the wrong direction. Proactive Electronics is now blaming FedEx. They send 2 emails asking me to do more research, bu not a word on crediting my VISA card.
Again, don't put your money in risk buying from an unreliable company.
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Summary: If you are a serious flight-sim fan, you must have these!
Review: I use this product with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and have no problem with it. As a licensed pilot, these are possibly the best add-on I have ever bought to make my PC feel more like the real thing.
I don't know about using them for driving sims as a brake and accelerator ( I have a Logitech Wingman FF wheel that I use for that) But for flying sims, these are great.
A must have for any die-hard flight sim fan!
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Summary: Realism
Review: If you want realism, you can't get enough from just a joystick. These pedals are not just ordinary pedals. You will be amazed when you use these for flight simulator. They help me make those long banks, and now I can even taxi successfully onto the runway. The brake feature only makes these pedals better. When I first plugged the pedals into my computer, they were installed right away! If you like flight simulator, don't leave an experience like this behind you.
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Summary: You get what you pay for...
Review: Ok, before we go in depth, remember this inequality(or whatever it is) CH Produts = The best quality out there.
These are the best. They are so durable, you ould probably drop them from the 10 story of a skysraper and nothing would happen. The problem: You have to be a flight sim freak to use them. The package says you can use them as pedals for cars, but forget that (unless you drive witha joystick). This is because most steering wheels either come witha pair of pedals and the wheel only works with them, or the game nly supports one controller.
So, dont complain about these not working as standalone controllers. They were not supposed to !!!! They were suppossed to be part of a HOTAS(if you dont know what that means, DONT BUY THEM). However, if you are a flight sim freak, and want simulation to the edge of the envelope, you will NEED these.
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Summary: Very realistic for $100: lets me practice the real thing!
Review: PERFORMANCE: Flight Simulator recognized that I had both pedals and the yoke installed when it started up. I selected a Cessna 172 at JZI (pilot talk for Charleston Executive Airport on John's Island, SC) and gave the system a try. My immediate thought was "Man! These pedal springs are light!" I took off my shoes to give me a better feel to start off with. My other thought was that the toe brakes are also very light, and they have more travel than I am used to on a real plane, a compromise of being able to use these pedals for driving as well.
Teething Pains. I managed a reasonable roll down the runway, using the pedals effectively (I thought) for rudder control. But once I was in the air, the rudders were no longer effective. Back on the ground the differential brakes didn't seem to be working correctly. Even with my feet off the pedals, the differential brakes were constantly coming on. THEN...I tried several times to set the sensitivities within Flight Simulator, hoping I could set a null zone to keep the pedals from being applied when I wasn't pressing the toe brakes, but each time I tried this the system seemed to reset the settings to the defaults. It turns out that I had forgotten to disable the auto-rudder feature of Flight Simulator. The rudders are effective on the ground even with auto-rudder turned on, but differential braking is affected when you turn the yoke. Auto-rudder activated the differential brakes every time I turned the yoke side to side, which made me think the pedals were not properly set. Learning Curve. It took a few hours for my feet to remember how airplanes turn. To turn left, you step on the left pedal, and you step on the right pedal for a right turn, naturally. Maybe so, but we had a few trips off the runway before I could convince my dogs to cooperate. OVERALL IMPRESSION: Ultimately the pedals worked great. The sliding action is very realistic, and they enable me to perform all sorts of maneuvers that just can't be done without them, like a full power takeoff in an Extra 300 aerobatic aircraft (so much power that without rudder controls the torque pulls you off the side of the runway!). I was also able to do full slips on landing, crosswind corrections, even aerobatics with vertical tail slides for almost 100 feet. See my website for a few photos of these great rudder pedals in action (I won't post my site, but you can find it by looking up my name).
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Summary: GREAT
Review: Really great pedals!!! Make sure you get CH;s yoke. A MUST! The only thing is that the rudder pedals are really sensitive and do not require much moving in FS2004 in the air. Overall: Best of the Best!
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Summary: eh.
Review: The Pro-pedals, dont work with many games, but they r the only pedals that have oppistite sliding "action", and i cant get them 2 work with any of the flight sims i have (alot) and they cost,alot but there the closest pedals 2 the real thing, and i got them 2 years ago for christmas and pulled them out of my closet yesterday, and plugged them into the USB port, and When u do that a window should pop up and say "new software detected" but it didnt then my dad and i had 2 go 2 CH.com and install a ton of drivers, and yet none of them worked. hopefully some day well figure out how 2 get them working. but for the people that can get them working there awesome pedals, and thats y i gave it 3 stars.
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Summary: eh.
Review: The Pro-pedals, dont work with many games, but they r the only pedals that have oppistite sliding "action", and i cant get them 2 work with any of the flight sims i have (alot) and they cost,alot but there the closest pedals 2 the real thing, and i got them 2 years ago for christmas and pulled them out of my closet yesterday, and plugged them into the USB port, and When u do that a window should pop up and say "new software detected" but it didnt then my dad and i had 2 go 2 CH.com and install a ton of drivers, and yet none of them worked. hopefully some day well figure out how 2 get them working. but for the people that can get them working there awesome pedals, and thats y i gave it 3 stars.
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Summary: excellent but doesn't work in space sims at all
Review: Thier are so many versions of the same CH device that it's hard to review the right one. Thier are actually two versions of these rudder peddals. No rudder peddal on a separate USB port will support space sims. This is for airplanes only. It is a shame it could not be for both as quite a lot of people like both airplanes and space sims. The best way to use this is in MS Flight Sim 04's jet airliners. No other game supports the left AND right toe brake configuration.
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