brakes on ww2 plan3es

[jchenry]

is there a tutorial o0n setting up brakes on ww2 planes?

[razo+r]

Each warbird is different. 

For german warbirds you generally can assign an axis to the left and right toe brake, same goes for american warbirds. 

For british and soviet warbirds, since they use a lever for brakes, you only need to assign one axis to it. 

Or if you dont have spare axis you can also use button. 

[Dragon1-1]

Actually, in DCS, we currently have only one Soviet warbird, and that has normal wheel brakes. All designs after that one used a British-style lever, but not the I-16, which had mechanical (not even hydraulic) brake pedals. La-5 will have a lever, but it's not out yet. All post-war Soviet designs up to Su-25 have a lever, though.

Right now, out of all WWII modules, only the Spit and Mossie have a pneumatic brake. You can bind that up to a button, but it's best to use an axis, for example a toe brake, if you don't have an analog lever. This is not ideal, either, but it works. For all other warbirds, set toe brakes up normally.

[Baldrick33]

If you don’t have an analogue lever, you can use a modifier to switch your stick from pitch to wheel brakes and modify the axis to only use the bottom half (deadzone or saturation to 50) so the brakes are off when the stick is centred.

Then you can taxi the Spitfire or Mosquito using the stick and rudder, once centred on the runway brakes off, get moving, press the modifier and use it as pitch to take off. Reverse the process for landing.