Nose Wheel Steering

[fuelhead]

Hi my controller is the Hotas Warthog and I would like to know if there is any way to use the joystick to guide the aircraft on the ground when I have nose wheel steering engaged as I do not have a rudder

 

:cry:

[BSS_Sniper]

I’d like to think if you bought the warthog you’d know you need a set of rudders. It might have been a better idea to get a cheaper stick and pedals.

[Eldur]

You should definately save up for pedals. I'd recommend the MFG Crosswind ones. They are quite pricey, but you'll definately honor that in ten or twenty years while still using them (btw my trusty FFB2 is 15yo already)

 

You can be glad when just flying modern jets like the Hornet that you hardly even need the rudder inflight.

 

Back when the Ka-50 module was fresh and new, I didn't have toebrakes and used a trick to map the brakes axis to my stick. I had the throttle slider set up as collective (fwd min and back max as usual) and declared on of my stick buttons that I used as wheel brake button until then as a modifier in DCS and mapped the wheel brake to the slider + that modifier key, inverted. So I could drop the collective, press and hold that button and pull the slider back again to brake smoothly.

 

My hint is that you might try doing so as well, just with the rudder axis put on the stick's X axis + a modifier key. Great thing about the WH is that you can use any of the flip switches as a modifier and it technically keeps being pressed as soon as you flip it on and gets unpressed when you flip it back off. That would give you a nice switch thatmakes it possible to switch to rudder control on the ground and then back to aileron control as soon as you need it. Of course this is no real solution, but it might work in meantime until you'll be able to get some pedals.

 

Another try might be just using the friction slider - it's definately not any kind of rudder control you might expect, but it could work as well as an interim solution, and you'll have a nice center-pos detent there.

[Sierra99]

Hi my controller is the Hotas Warthog and I would like to know if there is any way to use the joystick to guide the aircraft on the ground when I have nose wheel steering engaged as I do not have a rudder

 

:cry:

 

If you map your Warthog realistically the TMS switch should be unused. You can used the left and Right TMS for rudder.

 

Keep an eye on eBay and BH photo...the thrust master pedals can be found fairly cheap.

[Ala12Rv-Tundra]

I’d like to think if you bought the warthog you’d know you need a set of rudders. It might have been a better idea to get a cheaper stick and pedals.

I disagree, but I guess it depends mostly on what kind of aircraft the OP flies. Warbirds and choppers, for instance, put rudder pedals for good use, quite better than modern aircrafts.

[joey45]

You could probably map it to the grey unused lever by the throttles.