whirly_nerd

Quick update: It works now! On a hunch, I completely uninstalled vJoy and removed the virtual joysticks it had created. I restarted Windows just to be sure it was truly dead. And now, force trim works for both Hueys and Apaches! Hooray!

Force trim on the cyclic has never worked for me! It took me a long time to even figure out what it should be doing because of that. Now after watching a few videos, I'm fairly certain it just doesn't work for me. Now that I know what it should be doing, it looks like it does work for the rudder. Furthermore, I can see the zero-position of the trim (the red X) being set appropriately when I activate the trim. The rudder input changes to match, but the cyclic does not. It just ignores the trim position. I'll try to include 3 tracks demonstrating this: 2 with different settings on the Apache, and one with the Huey. The symptoms are the same in all cases. (Edit: only including two tracks because of upload limits.) huey-no-cyclic-trim.trk apache-no-cyclic-trim-instant.trk

For me, the one thing that seems to consistently make #2 startup fail is starting in hot weather (+30C).

I didn't need to set de-icing to auto. The icing warning was already just cycling. I don't see how to add a track. Maybe my forum account is too new. I can try again later. Track attached! icing-bug-marianas.miz.trk