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Differential braking i FS9

Postby Gringo6 » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:11 pm

Some how or the other I can't seem to get the differential braking to work with the toe brakes in FS9,. It will work with the keyboard inputs (F11 and F12) but not with the Saitek rudder pedals. This applies to all FS9 airplanes not just a few.

The "brakes" banner will come on and stay on no matter what. And it isn't fooling - the brakes really are on. I can get tue banner off by setting the parking brake and then releasing it using the period key but the first time I use the toe brakes it sets again. The F11 and F12 key do not produce this result.

The toe brakes work just fine in CFS2, FS2k2 and FSX so I don't think its a hardware problem with the rudder pedals.

Does anybody have any7 thoughts on this ?
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Re: Differential braking i FS9

Postby dave3cu » Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:32 pm

Have you tried reversing the axes?
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Re: Differential braking i FS9

Postby 1olehippy » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:42 am

I found that by adding the line....

differential_braking_scale = 1.0

to the aircraft file in [brakes]
I get excellent differential braking with the rudder left or right and the brakes applied.

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Re: Differential braking i FS9

Postby Gringo6 » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:35 pm

TO:dave3cu

Yes, and this may be part of the problem. I cannot get  the check mark in the reverse box to stay. When I close it goes away. Also when I check on the reverse box for the left axis for example the check mark in the right box disappears and vice-versa.

Something wierd is going on but I don't know what.
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Re: Differential braking i FS9

Postby dave3cu » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:50 pm

Gringo6,

I don't have the pedals so can't give direct help.

You might find some answers in this similar topic at the Saitek forums.

http://www.saitekforum.com/showthread.php?t=10566
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Re: Differential braking i FS9

Postby Gringo6 » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:51 pm

to: 1olehippy:

I've changed the default c172 to this:

[brakes]
parking_brake = 1        //Parking brake available
toe_brakes_scale = 0.68  //Brake scalar
differential_braking_scale=1.0  //added to OEM brake section

It doesn't make any diffeence to the differential braking

But, thanks for the tip
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Re: Differential braking i FS9

Postby Gringo6 » Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:07 pm

To:dave3cu:

The link to Saitek has the clue. Set the sensitivies to 50%

Then it works

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Re: Differential braking i FS9

Postby beaky » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:10 am

Probably a moot point, but it sounds like you've forgotten to not only assign the axis for rudder, but to assign only left Saitek toe brake to "left brake", and vice versa (they are "joystick buttons", after all). It might also help to delete the key assignments.
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