Brakes are always applied

Pilotmansam51590 · Guest

i'm using the CH products pro pedals and the CH products flight sim yoke. When I try to fly the plane off of the runway it says the brakes are still applied. Its not the parking brake.... it just says the brakes are applied and the airplane wont roll down the runway. Any similar problems? Any solutions?

Thunderbirdman2 · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:59 pm

Mabe try to put the brake slide down

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CrashGordon · Chief Captain Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 4667

CRJCapt · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:12 pm

Recalibrate your controllers, be careful both will say brakes. Ensure that brake assignments are not duplicated(sometimes they change on their own). If you need to, try connecting your pedals to a USB port on the computer instead of a hub.

This may sound dumb but....tap on the toe brakes or the [period key] and they should disengage, just thought I'd mention it just in case. Smile

CrashGordon · Chief Captain Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 4667

SamIntel · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:15 am

I am having this same exact problem, it can't be fixed. BUT... If you turn the sensitivity ALL the way up on the pedals, you can push them all the way in, and the brakes will turn off.

I'm not a bad pilot, I just like experimenting a little.

greystone · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:59 pm

I had the same problem. Only way I found to fix this was just as you make your takeoff roll, hold down <CTRL> and hit the Period key twice. The brakes should turn off. If you don't do this, your airspeed will not increase sufficiently for T/O. Weird.

Also, I suppose there is a reason for having to set up the brakes in reverse for the differentials, but I am at a loss to understand why that is necessary. Right rudder + left differential brake!?? Makes no sense. Easy fix, but still not logical.

axel31 · Guest

I have ch pro pedals, too, abd I have the fix:

Put your brake NULL ZONE to the minimum, then back to flight, apply brakes, release them and..... they are gone!!!!!
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lawlegge · Trainee Joined: May 15, 2005 Posts: 2

I had this problem (I am using the CH pedals) and this is what I e v e n t u a l l y realized -

in my case the problem is/was in the brake "null zone" sliders.

The problem only appears if the sliders are set farther then 1 centimeter from the left (approx. 20 %) - no farther than the "n" in the word "Zone" above the sliders. As long as I don't go past the "n" the pedals work perfectly.

Hope this helps,
lawlegge

7ECA-Captain · First Officer Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Posts: 371

Easing up on the settings should resolve the problem. I had the same thing when I first installed the pedals. I simply reset them to default and it stopped the problem. I've also discovered that you can release the park brakes by simply pressing the pedals, kinda neat for those obstacle clearance or short field take offs?

cthiggin · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:06 pm

Hello fellow simmers with CH Pedal Problems..
I HAD the same problem and talked to a tech fellow at CH last year.
He told me when "calibrating", using CH Control Manager, and when you get to the part of calibration that tells you to center pedals (think it's third step of calibration) to PUT a cd case under the back of each pedal, then hit "calibrate or "dont" - then move on to next step that's toe brakes.......that by doing this, you can then set you feet on the pedals without any brakes being applied - and ALL else works just fine. AND it did the trick for me. - I had tried the null zone, sensitivity before calling CH - thought my pedals were bad.........but again, it WORKED and solved the problem.
cthiggin

conticreative · Trainee Joined: Jun 08, 2008 Posts: 4

I am experiencing the same issue but I am using (and just installed) the Sitek pedals.

Running now without the pedals to test. Previously I had to delete a number of key assignments the pedals had for non existent buttons, but it did not solve the problem. without the pedals everything is fine

conticreative · Trainee Joined: Jun 08, 2008 Posts: 4

Well I found the solution and it works for me. Hopefully it will work for others too.

I found out that whoth toe pedals forward the red break alert disappeared. Also I noticed that the directional breaks would come on very soon in the pedals travel but then disappeared.

In the controls I reversed the pedals (with the checkbox next to each) and now the break alert disappears since the breaks have their travel reversed. They still work fine and they engage properly and now if I push both all the way, the main break sign pops up, just like before but it doesn't happen at rest.

drkusa · Trainee Joined: Jul 19, 2004 Posts: 1

cthiggin...

Thanks a load for your CD-under-the-pedals trick. That worked perfectly!

This problem of the persistent brake display has been bugging me for a long time and none of the "solutions" I had read and tried before did any good.

I had always suspected it had something to do with the calibration but none of my experiments worked. Never occurred to me to try a simple thing like propping up the pedals for calibration.

Can't thank you enough for solving this one for me.

drkusa

Accelor · First Officer Joined: Aug 24, 2008 Posts: 120

Yes the thing to do is to check the ( Reverse ) box under control axis, that will solve the problem. Smile

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