Regarding trimming, I'm not familiar with how trimmer is working on Ka-50, but I'm very familiar with the Mi-24, and I believe they both work the same way. It is true that during flight pilots have to use trim button all the time. It goes like this (on real helicopters): when you manouvre (change position of cyclick stick) you make series of short clicks on trimmer button till you reach desired position of the stick, and then in that position you press trimmer couple more times to neutralise any possable forces remained on the stick. The other way is to press-and-hold trimmer button, move your stick to desired position, release trimmer, and again press it couple more times to neutralise any possable remained forces.
Personaly I was wondering how ED will solve this problem in BS becouse on the real helicopter (I'm talking about Mi-24) with the use of trimmer button, you actualy change current neutral position of the cyclick, so depending on how you have trimmed, cyclick's current neutral position can be moved to all four directions (left, right, forward or backward) relative to, let's say, it’s normal neutral position. It is clear that (except maybe with force feedback joysticks) you can't do that, but I find it very acceptable that when, for example, you accelerate, and your cyclick is pushed forward, so you want to trim it in that position, you press the trim button (on real helicopter cyclick should stay in that position), and in next moment you just let the joystick to get back to it's neutral position - and the helicopter is trimmed to those precise parameters. But with any change of speed or power on the engines, you have to trim it again. And so you do it all the time.
On Mi-24 it is forbiden to use trimmer button only during combat manouvers because, if you try to trim with significant forces present on the cyclick, you risk getting your machine in undesirable position and crash.
Use of trimmer button is often frustrating thing, especially for young pilots, so it is normal (but wrong) that they try to fly the helicopter "manualy" (without use of trimmer), and belive me, no matter how strong you are, if you try to fly Mi-24 without use of trimmer button, your hand will start shaking very soon.
I would like to go back on problems with trim button affecting rudders. On Mi-24 trimmer button is not affecting rudder pedals. I find it wrong that on DCS BS trim is also neutralizing forces on rudders. It is normal that leg muscles are much stronger, and logically less sensitive to small forces than our hands. Therefore I’m having problems feeling where the neutral position on my pedals is. So I find it a bit disturbing that with the press on trim button, besides I have to move my joystick back to neutral, I also have to concentrate to move my pedals back to neutral. That is something that I usually I don’t succeed to do, at least not as precisely as I would like to. Result is always that my helicopter swings a bit to the other side. Therefore I think that it would be useful at least to have possibility to have option to turn off or on rudders from trimming function depending on user’s wish.
I hope that my reply was not too long. If it was please accept my apology.
