pedals for driving and flight sims?

I'd like to get rudder pedals for a flight sim, but am also looking at wheels/pedals for driving sims. Can most be used for both? Any recommendations for good ones for $75-150? Thanks for any advice. I have FS2000, Red Baron 2, European Air War, JF4, and would like to get a rally sim; system is PIII 550, 512MB RAM, Geforce 2 64MB video, running Win98.

Mark Knapp wrote:

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> I'd like to get rudder pedals for a flight sim, but am also looking at > wheels/pedals for driving sims. Can most be used for both? Any > recommendations for good ones for $75-150? Thanks for any advice. > > I have FS2000, Red Baron 2, European Air War, JF4, and would like to > get a rally sim; system is PIII 550, 512MB RAM, Geforce 2 64MB video, > running Win98.

No, most cannot be used for both. You want the CH Pro pedals. They're the only ones that'll do you for both. $100 over the counter. Available in most EB stores. $70.15 at buy.com KFG

I used my Logitech wingman formula force pedals for rudders in IL-2 Sturmovik and a few other games, i just have to make sure the pedals are combined and not on a split axis Cool Hand Luke -=87=- "Mark Knapp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I'd like to get rudder pedals for a flight sim, but am also looking at > wheels/pedals for driving sims. Can most be used for both? Any > recommendations for good ones for $75-150? Thanks for any advice. > > I have FS2000, Red Baron 2, European Air War, JF4, and would like to > get a rally sim; system is PIII 550, 512MB RAM, Geforce 2 64MB video, > running Win98.

I actually like the CH non-pro pedals better, they work great for both. -Phasor "Kevin F. Gavitt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9ADf9.241354$[email hidden]...

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> Mark Knapp wrote: > > > I'd like to get rudder pedals for a flight sim, but am also looking at > > wheels/pedals for driving sims. Can most be used for both? Any > > recommendations for good ones for $75-150? Thanks for any advice. > > > > I have FS2000, Red Baron 2, European Air War, JF4, and would like to > > get a rally sim; system is PIII 550, 512MB RAM, Geforce 2 64MB video, > > running Win98. > > No, most cannot be used for both. You want the CH Pro pedals. They're the > only ones that'll do you for both. $100 over the counter. Available in

most > EB stores. $70.15 at buy.com > > KFG

I like the CH regular pedals too... they're cheap and very precise, although the geometry is totally different from a car so it takes some getting used to, but it works well for aircraft sims as well. One of my coworkers took some CH pedals, flipped them 180 degrees and bolted them to a wedge made of plywood to make them top-hinged, and put an extra spring/squashball under the brake--with it against the wall, it felt very solid and car-like, for maybe ten bucks of parts and probably at most an hour of labor. (I think he ended up also bolting on metal toe plates on the ends of the pedals.) -Dave "Phasor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:alofoc$1q91ga$[email hidden]...

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> I actually like the CH non-pro pedals better, they work great for both. > > -Phasor > > "Kevin F. Gavitt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:9ADf9.241354$[email hidden]... > > Mark Knapp wrote: > > > > > I'd like to get rudder pedals for a flight sim, but am also looking at > > > wheels/pedals for driving sims. Can most be used for both? Any > > > recommendations for good ones for $75-150? Thanks for any advice. > > > > > > I have FS2000, Red Baron 2, European Air War, JF4, and would like to > > > get a rally sim; system is PIII 550, 512MB RAM, Geforce 2 64MB video, > > > running Win98. > > > > No, most cannot be used for both. You want the CH Pro pedals. They're

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> > only ones that'll do you for both. $100 over the counter. Available in > most > > EB stores. $70.15 at buy.com > > > > KFG > >

On 11 Sep 2002 01:32:01 -0700, [email hidden] (Mark Knapp) wrote:

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>I'd like to get rudder pedals for a flight sim, but am also looking at >wheels/pedals for driving sims. Can most be used for both? Any >recommendations for good ones for $75-150? Thanks for any advice. > >I have FS2000, Red Baron 2, European Air War, JF4, and would like to >get a rally sim; system is PIII 550, 512MB RAM, Geforce 2 64MB video, >running Win98.

I got me a couple of Thrustmaster Elite rudder pedals for the flight sims aside from the steering wheel & pedals. As others have mentioned, only the CH pedals can be used with both racing and flight sims, and they're more like rudder pedals than car ones. I also got a box called a "JoySwitch" that allows up to 4 different joysticks/wheels and 2 sets of pedals to be hooked to it and then manually selected by you (like a DataSwitch used for printers and other parallel port devices). I got the pedals for $44 from one of those Amazon zShops, and the JoySwitch on eBay for $25. You just have to be patient to find good items at low price (got a GeForce2 MX 32MB card for a friend yesterday for $6.50, for instance... I wish I had got something for myself that cheap! Oh, well, I did get that camera lens once for $5...) Back to the subject, the Thrustmaster Elite are something like the next-to-best rudder pedals you can get. (The best are probably another earlier model by Thrustmaster which has been long discontinued). Oh, those are for use with the game port, not USB, but I believe there was a USB version too. -- __________ ____---____ Marco Antonio Checa Funcke \_________D /-/---_----' Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru _H__/_/ http://machf.tripod.com '-_____|( remove the "no_me_j." and "sons.of." parts before replying

Thanks for all the suggestions. Now I just gotta get some...

i gotta get some too... but not pedals "Mark Knapp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Thanks for all the suggestions. Now I just gotta get some... >