Cougar HOTAS with T-Flight Rudder Pedals
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Hi everyone, I’m very late to the Falcon BMS party (having only discovered it recently after purchasing a new PC capable of doing it justice). I’m using the original HOTAS Cougar/throttle with 2 MFDs and have just added the pedals. However I’m having trouble mapping the pedals to the rudder so I can taxi etc by sliding the pedals instead of using the < and > keys. In the controller setup I can see rudder axis X, Y and Z and these respond when I press either left, right or both pedals, so I’m able to map the brake to the left toe pedal, but the pedal sliding itself doesn’t seem to register so not sure how I map it. Anyone had this issue and know to fix? I’m Windows 11 so Target wasn’t happy, although the old Foxy software runs ok. Although I’ve just mapped everything through BMS rather than applying Foxy scripts, and everything is working fine apart from the pedals. Thanks.
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@Gavlar50 Are you doing this in AL or setup in BMS UI? Not sure exactly what your problem is from your description.
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@Icarus here’s what I see when I set up via the UI.
With this config the left and right toe pedals are acting as the left/right rudder when NWS enabled, then both toe pedals together act as the brake. I can work with this so its not the end of the world, but I was expecting the pedal forward/back slider to act as the rudder. I think it’s possibly because the Z axis isn’t being seen. So as it stands the pedal slide motion does nothing.
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@Gavlar50 Are the axes working in windows? Also Id advise using AL its simpler to use than old way. Also try switching them around. See if different combination works.
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@Gavlar50 Get thevrudder working properly first. Then figure out the brakes second.
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@Gavlar50 it sounds like you’ve enabled the virtual-rudder feature?
it’s not for you … it for folks with car racing pedals.
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@Icarus sorry please forgive the silly question I’m new to this, AL?
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@Gavlar50 Hi, this is my location to the alternative launcher (AL):
C:\Falcon BMS 4.37\Launcher\FalconBMS_Alternative_Launcher.exe
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@Mikyjax and all, thanks everyone for your help. My desktop shortcut was using the alt launcher by default, and setting the rudder/brakes from the AxisAssign menu (instead of within the UI after loading the main game) it now works ok. Also disabled the virtual rudder as mentioned by @airtex2019. All is well now
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@Gavlar50 Perfect, happy for you! Just be aware that as I understand your setup you shouldn’t change any key or axis in falcon or that will mess your setup. Always use the alternate launcher to avoid any issue
Enjoy this crazy sim!