9 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
 CH Pedals are good but don't buy from Proactive Electronics, 2004-04-05
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.
35 of 36 customers found the following review helpful:
Very realistic for $100: lets me practice the real thing!, 2004-01-27
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).
4 of 35 customers found the following review helpful:
 eh., 2003-03-23
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.
19 of 35 customers found the following review helpful:
You get what you pay for..., 2002-11-19
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.
101 of 104 customers found the following review helpful:
Toebrakes work perfectly in MS CFS2 and MS FS2002, 2002-10-02
Under controller assignments 'assign axis' both Microsoft FS2002 and CFS2 menues allow assigning the up and down movement of the pedals to the toebrakes, right and left. Pushing (forwards and backwards) on pedals moves the rudder. It all works perfectly giving a variable analogue brake, the harder you push the more brake you apply. Taxiing the plane using rudder and brakes together works smooth and is easy to control. I velcroed the pedals to a large plywood sheet and attached the sheet to the desk legs with small angle brackets and machine screws. A large sheet so I could later move the pedals around to different positions on the board. I use this setup: Fighterstick USB, ThrottlePro USB, Pro Rudder Pedals USB, all CH branded. All 3 of these combine with CH's software to make one huge virtual device. So if you then go to Windows control panel's game control applet you see 1 device not 3. That one device has six axis and 32 buttons! Never calibrate it there (doing that will screw it all up). Instead ONLY calibrate it in the CH software. I assigned those six axes to: 1 HorizStickX 2 VertStickY 3 Wheel on the stick (Fuel mixture lean/rich), 4 Throttle, 5 Right brake, 6 Left brake. FS2002 would let me assign them to other controls if I had prefered). So far no problems with these fine CH products.
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