For years I’ve just been using the ‘K’ key for wheel brakes… Recently I expanded my hotas setup, and assigned an analog axis to the wheel brakes.
I notice that differential braking, when applying yaw-axis input, seems backward… is it?
With keyboard/dx-button braking (the ‘SimWheelBrakes’ callback) it works as expected – twisting rudder axis to the right causes my plane to turn slightly right (same direction as tail-rudder control surface).
But with the brakes assigned to an analog-axis, it seems reversed – twisting right causes my plane to turn slightly left (opp. of tail rudder).
Repro…
Toe-brake axis: assigned to an analog axis
Right toe-brake: unassigned (“keyboard” … even tho there is no keybd callback for right toe-brake afaik)
On the taxiway… with NWS off:
Taxi forward about 20 mph
Apply right-rudder
Apply brakes
Expect: plane slows and drags to the right
Observe: plane slows and drags to the left
I tested both 4.36 and 4.35, they seem to behave the same in this regard, so it’s not a recent change. Maybe I’m doing something wrong or stupid.
So far it’s only really noticeable upon landing … eg. decelerating, after nose down, applying a bit of rudder against the crosswind to keep straight. As airspeed decreases, the rudder has less effect, and the plane begins to turn the wrong way 🙂 but once NWS is engaged the backward (?) diff braking isn’t so noticeable.
Maybe trying to do tight pivot-turns on a carrier deck, would be problematic…