Thrustmaster TPR: The best flight sim pedals you can buy in a store like a normal person
Enlarge / This is probably the TPR pedals' best angle-looks almost like a race car engine. (credit: Lee Hutchinson)
| Specs at a glance: Thrustmaster Pendular Rudder pedals | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Thrustmaster |
| Device type | Flight simulator rudder pedals with toe brakes |
| Axes | Three |
| Sensor type | 3D Hall effect magnetic |
| Controller precision | 16-bit (all axis) |
| Interface | USB type-B |
| Price | $499.99 at Amazon |
As someone who's gone so far as to put money in a Polish bank account for a Belarusian man named Slaw in exchange for high quality pedals, I was overjoyed when Thrustmaster's PR people reached out recently and offered to send a review sample of their new TPR rudder pedals. As a long-time Thrustmaster Warthog owner, the key question I had about the company's new rudder pedals was about build quality: would they be worth the $499 MSRP, or would they be like the Warthog stick and throttle-beautiful on the outside but stuffed full of crazy wires and hot glue and plastic?
Let's answer that question right up front: no, they're not like the Warthog. I took the things apart, and there were no loose wires and no hot glue. It's all neat and tidy in there (and we've got pictures and more details a little further down).
Overall, the TPR pedals are an impressive freshman effort by Thrustmaster in a niche field where they haven't played before-that is, high-end rudder pedals. The quality is there, but the design itself feels less like a cohesive whole and more like a design-by-committee product. It gets the job done-very well, in fact!-but I don't think anyone could call it pretty.
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