Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10378 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Contact Sales
• Model: 300-111
• Released on: 2001-11-09
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 95
• Dimensions: 2.20 pounds

Customer Reviews

You Won't Be Dissapointed!
These pedals are great. They feel so comfortable, they never jam up, and the are sensetive, making them very controllable. Overall, these pedals are amazing and I highly recommend them to anyone. I bought them mainly to use with my Heavy Gear and Heavy Gear II games, and found them useful for many other things. Once again, I greatly recommend these. They'll never lose their novelty.

Couldn't fly without them ...
I bought the gameport version of these pedals years and years ago having gazed at them in the shop on and off for months while trying to make up my mind. I have to say that they were one of the best purchases I have ever made (along with the TrackIR 3) and make flight sims much, much more fun and immersive.

When the USB version came out I resisted for a long time (mostly due to the price) but finally caved in. I had a rather strange set up to make the gameport pedals work that involved having the pedals slaved to an old gameport joystick so that the computer would recognise them and which every now and again would have a blip and cause a problem. The pedals themselves were great but I finally got tired of the plane or helo suddenly jinking at some really inopportune time for no good reason and went USB.

I can't say that I regret it in the slightest. They're fantastic. In fairness, they are exactly as good as the gameport version which were, themselves, fantastic but they are much better compatibility-wise with modern PCs.

If I have one complaint about the pedals it is that the centre detent is a little harsh. The pedals slide forward and backward on a pivot for normal flight use. You push the left pedal away from you, for example, and the right pedal slides toward you. As the pressure goes from left pedal to right pedal there's a very audible clunk that is also felt through the feet. When flying helo sims this can be a little annoying as the inputs need to be so gentle and precise and I can often feel myself tensing in anticipation of the centre clunk.

The pedals can also be used for toe-braking by tilting the pedals forwards and backwards in sims such as MS Flight Simulator 2004 though, in my experience this is more of a pain than a help as the damned things seem to be on all the time. I've fiddled and I've never managed to sort it out to my satisfaction.

The pedals can be locked (using supplied chocks) to act as car pedals though I have never managed to use them for this to any great effect (there always seems to be some kind of incompatibility with the game) but as I rarely play racing games this is no great loss to me.

Probably the only issue that is likely to irritate users is that in order to use these pedals you either need a joystick that allows you to plug the pedals into them (good luck finding one!) or you need that the game supports mulitple controllers. Most of the biggies will support dual controllers (IL-Sturmovik/Pacific Fighters, Battle Of Britain, all the MS Flight Simulators, EECH) but games like Operation Flashpoint, ArmA, and Search & Rescue 4 will leave you to use the twist grip on your joystick with the pedals providing nothing other than a convenient footrest. This is an issue with the games, though, not the pedals. It is worth knowing though.

All in all, I don't know how anyone who plays a lot of flight sims can get along without pedals, and you're going to buy them then these are a very good choice. At least until SimPeds become easier to get hold of.