CH Pro Pedals and CFS3

[Copterdr]

Hello, all.  Avid flight simmer, first time poster.  I have a little problem I hope someone can help me with.  It's more of a hardware issue, but since it relates specifically to CFS3, maybe someone here has the answer.  I just got my Pro Pedals installed and running for CFS3, but am having a problem with the brakes.  It seems they want to stay set when the pedals are released.  Only by fully pushing forwards on the pedal can I get them to release.  This makes takeoff runs very interesting.  I can't find any way to "reverse" the braking inputs anywhere, if there even is a way to do it.  I'm running Windows XP Home Ed.  The pedals work just fine under CFS2.  Please help.

[Bill_King]

Yes there is an easy way.

Go to control assignments menu and find "axis commands" and kick the left and right toebrakes to assign them axis and then create a new default assigments filename and save it using the CFS menu. Lets say its called Toebrakes.

Go to the folder where CFS3.xca is located (not in CFS3 directory it is in (win98) Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Combat Flight Simulator\cfs3.xca.
In winXP its in (I think) C:\Applications Data\...
Its a hidden file, so tell Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders.

You will find a brand new wordpad file there called Toebrakes.xca (or whatever name you saved the assignments as from the CFS3 menu).

Find these lines: Action="AXIS_LEFT_BRAKE_SET" Scale="64" Nullzone="36"/>...
                 Action="AXIS_RIGHT_BRAKE_SET" Scale="64" Nullzone="36"/>
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Change 64 to -64 and the toebrakes are reversed!

Be sure to next make toebrakes.xca properties READ ONLY or CFS3 will soon reset the lines above to idefault +64 and you won't have brakes again!.

Peter Dowson (spelling) of FSUIPC fame, was I believe first to find this trick. He also recomends a Nullzone of 0 instead of 36 for full range of brake control on CH pedals (from the controler readmes for FS2002 on his website).  Peter's solution was for FS2002 (editing FS2002.cfg file). But his same trick also works for me when I edited the CFS3's xxx.xca files  as described above. I had same problem as you, now I don't anymore, thanks to Peter!

[Copterdr]

Many thanks.  Pedals work great now.