Grenadey

No worries, I didn't want to appear to be a killjoy.... ;) I may try it myself against SA-15s.....

No, problem. Anything to help!

No, it's not less precise you just need to move the stick further to get the desired input. Lowering X saturation increases sensitivity as the longer stick needs to be moved further.

The only thing I really wish for is the XM26 TOW. After spending so long taking out Abrams and Lepards it's time to blow up some T72s.

IRL though long range SAMs are protected by short to medium range SAMs and AAA. They're too expensive to leave unprotected.

Yeah it's very easy to do. I used plastic plumbing pipe and wooden dowling to attach the handle to the pipe and a handful of self-tapping screws to hold it all together. You really need to use SimFFB to keep the stick in place especially if you plan on doing any hands-off work with the shark. Plus, SimFFB simulates the correct way for force-trim to work. i.e. no forces on the stick when trimmer is held down. With this setup the stick is now actually too long and doesn't give enough control input, so you need to lower the X-saturation until you get to the point that you are comfortable throwing the acft around. I have mine set to 50 on both the X and Y axes.

That's one of the best descriptions of flying the Huey I've ever seen! :)

Here's a pic of the quick and dirty extension I made to the G940. This will be replaced with 12mm aluminium pipe in the near future.

You can definitely fly with linear axes on an extended stick. :)

Ah, that's nice to know. Thanks Viper.

Well the base is on the floor now, not entirely sure how long it is... It doesn't look pretty but it does the job. I'll post a pic soon.

Well I ended up extending the stick today and boy what a difference! It flies much more stable and is a joy to hover/taxi. Still can't quite nail that landing though. If anyone hasn't extended their G940 yet I highly recommend it. It took me about 1hr including testing to get it just right. Grenadey

When you say you don't use the Logitech software what do you use? I thought it had to be installed for the FFB to work?

Tried SimFFB and adding curves etc. I still think linear axes are better all round. I know a lot of folks will just say keep practising etc. etc. but I still feel that our hardware is just not as sensitive as the real thing. My opinions of course won't stop me flying and flying and flying.....

Leading on from your initial work; if you rename Lifebar_page.lua to Lifebar_page.lua.bak (or anything you like really) then it doesn't appear at all. :)

I've given up with messing with the axes. I've found you can only fly properly with completely linear axes, no dead zone and 100% saturation. I think the next thing will be to extend the stick to get the finer control or wait for the previously mentioned damper/slider to lower the sensitivity of the hardware. Grenadey

Thanks for that, I'll have a fiddle. I'm not too proud to stick with game flight mode for now until I can dial back the sensitivity on my stick (or improve my flying... ;) ) Grenadey

Out of interest which .lua/line did you change to get rid of it? Grenadey

I'm using the G940 with no curves at the moment, but I'm literally just about to start playing with SimFFB to try and get this stick at least feeling like the real thing. I'll report back later today with my results. Grenadey

Dive on target for a rocket run, break left (remembering to never overfly anything that still lives), figure of 8 at low level, high speed, then pop up, dive with guns, break right etc. etc. until everything is dead. Then overfly the target in slo-mo chucking an orange smoke can out the windows whilst muttering, 'Shit..... still only Saigon'.

None at all at the moment as it upsets force trim. I am about to try experimenting with SimFFB (referenced in the UH1 FAQ for FFB) as then FFB in DCS can be turned off and some curvature added to the cyclic. I'll report back the results of my experimentation as I can't be the only person who still has a G940! ;) Grenadey

I do understand that some work is required :) and was not expecting the learning phase to be easy in any way, shape or form. My point being that when you cannot adjust the curvature of the axes because you use a FFB stick then the workload is more and the effects more exaggerated than for a stick where some curve has been added to enable finer control. Grenadey Edit: As Vlerkies points out above, 'A little fine tuning on the controller front....'.

Unfortunately if you have a FFB stick and want to use force-trim you can't have any curvature at all. This is where some form of control dampening option would come in handy. Grenadey

This, unfortunately, is the option I've had to go for with the G940. Without the heavy damping the slop in the 940 means constant oscillation in straight and level flight even after trimming and hovering/landing are certainly not pretty. In contrast I can throw the Shark around and can dance with that thing at low/slow and hover. A 'Damping slider' would be an excellent addition for those of us with inferior hardware. Grenadey

Thanks Trouble, your google-fu is better than mine I couldn't find it. The BS2 1.2.1 module is in the second link you listed. Muchos gracias! :pilotfly: