Rudder (the mechanical part)
As promised, I’ve finally started working on the rudder pedal project. Here’s a screenshot from X-Plane showing what this post is about: As I mentioned in an earlier post, I already have a set of rudder pedals that came with my CH Products yoke. However, I’ve never really been happy with how they feel or how accurate they are. That’s probably partly because they were designed for desktop use. To keep them compact, they use a sliding mechanism instead of hanging pedals. That same compact design also makes them surprisingly difficult to integrate into the cockpit on the motion platform. So I decided to design and build a completely new set of rudder pedals from scratch, based on the hanging pedal mechanism used in the real aircraft. The first step was figuring out exactly where the new pedals could be mounted. There were two things to consider. First, ergonomics. As you may remember, the seats in my cockpit are fixed and can’t be adjusted forward or backward. Second, the mech...
