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Especially when battle dam-aged I love CH-Products READ what you can do W/CMS Software. Otherwise When in X-Plane, FX or 2004 Microsoft programs you are real as you program it. Try landing on the pitching deck of a carrier in Lomac IL2 or Pacific fighters. Logitech has just come out with controllers like Ch-Products and Saitek.
Hi I have been flight siming for quite sometime and recently made the Jump to real world piloting both fixed wing and rotary aircraft. We have Joy Lt Scott St. You`ll get a real thrill/chill and a sense of accomplishment. The fellas I fly fixed wing with and my instructor for rotary aircraft all agree that my use of flight programs with this equipment has translated into a more fluid, focused training experience.
The Jury is not in on these yet. John The only thing one does not quite experience is the actual mechanical tactile elements and forces of "G" associated with real world flying. This is also true of older Ubisoft titles which fly well and much more acurately than with Logitech controller Sticks.
Great product. I also use Fusion/Windows and fly MS Simulator X with no issues. Well built, heavy so they don't slide on the floor. I've been very pleased with the CH Pro Pedals. I have a IMAC 24" and purchased XPlane and the pedals work perfectly.
The pilot's legs get a bit fatigued because there seems to be a different angle from a real cockpit. No real complaints, it adds a lot of realism and allows forward and side slips as well as realistic spin recovery.
Have only tried the unit with light aircraft so don't know how it funtions with the heavys or the choppers. The unit is heavy enough to pretty much stay positioned on the floor and is light enough to easily move out of the way when not flying.
This unit functioned as advertised and took no knowledge to install. The pedals don't have quite the same feedback as the real thing but that was expected, its a computer not a Cessna.
Probably won't try them as I know that if it doesn't have a propeller, it can't fly. It is being used with Microsofts's Flight Simulator X and it was plug in the USB cable and start flying.
A different computer seat helps relieve the condition.
Make sure you research what you are supposed to do with the controls to counter crosswinds. Trim, though, is the easiest of the major controls to learn.I did not compare (other than by reading the reviews ) the competing Saitek parts. Plug them into the USB, then install the CH Control Manager off CD. You will, too.Amazon offers a package complete with the matching Yoke and the FSX software. At the start of my fifth flying lesson, I made a frighteningly bad takeoff in a crosswind.
It saves a small amount and is worth considering. Anyway, when I resume from Sleep, I have to "Rescan" to make the pedals work - this takes a couple of seconds. For less than the cost of 2 lessons, this is a real investment for anybody learning to fly.A quick note on the matching Yoke - works fine, my only complaint is that the Trim control is way too sensitive and difficult to use. These CH parts work fine for me. You set up with the stick one way and the pedals slightly the other. I found that performing extended runway takeoffs on part throttle really helped make pedaling second nature.
I was pedaling completely the wrong way, and made a bad condition worse. Build quality is good, and anybody who wants to really jump on the pedals real hard should reflect on whether they would want to do this to a Cessna. I'm happy to say that, starting from dangerously bad, I can now do perfect still-wind landings, and decent cross-wind ones. It was clear I needed to develop some pedal skills without bruising anything more substantial than my ego.The CH pedals work great on my no-name quad core homebrew Vista 64 box. On the ground, pedal action is realistically delayed. You will obviously start in calm conditions, then add crosswinds.
I leave the CH Control Manager program running - seems to work better that way. I do not have any problem with the pedals sliding around on the carpet.Pedal skills come along quite rapidly.
The unit is used as a rudder control for flight simulation in a high performance aircraft for approach and engine out training and service its purpose, so far.It is used with the Xplane 9 system on a MacBook Pro coupled with a FreeBSD 7 based slave system. Items appear to work as promised. Works as promised. No problems to date. The pedal motions are similar to those expected in an actual aircraft. There are no true force feedback actions, but this is expected in controls used for a PC style simulator.
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