Hi All,
I’m a novice where DCS is concerned and trying to understand the FLCS on the Viper. Apologies if this is in the wrong topic, but it seemed most appropriate.
The main issue is trim. My understanding of the system is that under most circumstances the pilot doesn’t trim. The attitude is set and up to 15’ AoA the FLCS will maintain 1g. Trimming in either direction changes the g that will be maintained and in straight flight this will introduce a pitching moment in one direction or the other (ultimately making manual trim fairly redundant unless you want to fly a constant AoB orbit).
On climb out with the trim gain set to 1g I can set a pitch attitude of 10’NU and go heads in to make a switch selection and a few seconds later return to see the pitch attitude has increased by up to 5’. I can’t take my eye off it for anytime at all and I’m finding I need a small amount of stick forward to hold the nose attitude in the climb. By definition this is an out of trim condition.
The question is why? I tried manually trimming in the early stages, but it makes matters worse. I have considered it may be a controller issue an introduced a dead zone, but that has no effect. The only thing I can think of is that I’m misunderstanding how the system works. Maybe, there’s a pitch power couple at play?
Any help appreciated.
