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Jan 7th, 2011 at 4:32pm

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What does it take to make steering brakes that can be controled by tuning the grip on my joy stick?
I can steer by using keys on the keyboard, but I want more control by twist-steer.  Any thoughts?  Huh
 
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Reply #1 - Jan 7th, 2011 at 6:13pm

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Open aircraft cfg file,  scroll down to [brakes] and add this line

differential_braking_scale = 1.0

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Reply #2 - Jan 7th, 2011 at 7:18pm

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Did that before, didn't work.
 
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Reply #3 - Jan 7th, 2011 at 10:01pm

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As Dave said, adding 'differential_braking_scale = 1.0' will provide automatic differential braking in the direction you have your rudder control turned. Turn the rudder and apply your normal brake control. ( the 'brake' message changes to 'differential brake')

If what your looking for is proportional differential braking, that can be done by assigning a seperate axis control for each brake. Don't see how you can do that with the twist as that is a single axis.

Some joystick programming software, like Saitek's SST, allows you to program an axis to emulate 2 key presses which you could assign to L and R brake, but that provides on-off braking like the normal brake key presses. If you have a registered (payed for) install of FSUIPC, I believe you do the same.

On the other hand, are you simply looking for a better way to steer planes with free swiveling tail wheels, like the DC-3? That can be done with an edit in the aircraft.cfg file [contact_points] section. It makes the wheel steerable, connected to the rudder control so no diff. braking is required.

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