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Yeah I completely removed the deadzone and increased the curve to 22%

I want to thank every single one of you for the help and tips. I managed to do 3 successful attempts, two of them were without disconnections. The tanker was S-3B with Wake Turbulence enabled. Here are key points or things that made huge difference in my experience. Understand how trim works. I just need to hold the jet level for it to auto trim itself and there is no need to touch the trim button. Approach the tanker with about two knots faster until connection, then I start working the throttle. I found that I was afraid of fighting the stick to remain stable on basket approach xD. For the first time I felt like I have control on the jet and I'm forcing it to remain stable until connection. Just very small stick movements to fix the pitch overshooting that happens whenever I panic. I will take a few hours break and do it again.

Thank you so much everyone for the tips. I will start a long AAR session today and tell you how did it go.

Thanks buddy, that is pretty much where I struggle right now I guess I need to spend more time with AAR and the hornet in general.

So let me explain what always happens with me on AAR. Most of the time I'm approaching the tanker with and everything stable except for that I need to gain a tiny bit of altitude to be in line with the basket and the tanker reference point. At this moment I usually do either of the following: 01- Increase power to gain altitude (while still working the throttle levers), and suddenly the plane want pitches up, I immediately apply small pitch down with the stick and suddenly we start playing the wobble game. I end up stepping away from the tanker and re-initiate the formation flying and approaching the basket again. 02 - Instead of increasing the power, I try to pitch up with the stick, or trim up. Any of these will result in overcorrecting and will end up fighting with pitch up and down chaos until I make it stable again. I have Winwing Orion hotas with pitch and roll DeadZone at 4, and 20% Curves. Btw, flipping the FCS switch to Override instead of Normal made fine stick adjustments much better but not as what I see on YouTube videos.

I know it is 8 years later, but it could help someone new FLAP Switch - The FLAP switch is used to select the CAS Operating Mode and to position the TEFs and aileron droop for takeoff and landing. AUTO - Selects UA operating mode for Up and Away(UA) flight. HALF - Selects Powered Approach (PA) operating mode for the takeoff and landing configuration. Sets TEF deflection and aileron droop to 30° TED (WonW or at approach speed). FULL - Selects PA operating mode for the takeoff and landing configuration. Sets TEF deflection and aileron droop to 40° TED (WonW or at approach speed). Reference: https://forums.vrsimulations.com/support/index.php/Cockpit_Systems

The problem is that I have very hard time trimming for formation flying or AAR where I need to trim up or down just a tiny bit. In my case one trim press, and the plane goes wild.

Hello Guys, Whenever I trim using my joystick's Hat switch with a very quick and small button press, the plane changes the pitch or roll violently. I tried to modify the default hornet trim input value in default.lua files and decrease it to lower than 1.0 per button press, but unfortunately the trim completely stops if set to anything but 1.0. I've tried 0.5 & 0.3 but nothing works. I modified the below files. \DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Input\FA-18C\keyboard\default.lua \DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Input\FA-18C\joystick\default.lua These are the lines I modified. { pressed = hotas_commands.STICK_TRIMMER_DOWN, up = hotas_commands.STICK_TRIMMER_DOWN, cockpit_device_id = devices.HOTAS, value_pressed = 0.5, value_up = 0.0, name = _('Trimmer Switch - PUSH(DESCEND)'), category = {_('Stick'), _('Flight Control'), _('HOTAS')}}, { pressed = hotas_commands.STICK_TRIMMER_UP, up = hotas_commands.STICK_TRIMMER_UP, cockpit_device_id = devices.HOTAS, value_pressed = 0.5, value_up = 0.0, name = _('Trimmer Switch - PULL(CLIMB)'), category = {_('Stick'), _('Flight Control'), _('HOTAS')}}, { pressed = hotas_commands.STICK_TRIMMER_LEFT, up = hotas_commands.STICK_TRIMMER_LEFT, cockpit_device_id = devices.HOTAS, value_pressed = 0.5, value_up = 0.0, name = _('Trimmer Switch - LEFT WING DOWN'), category = {_('Stick'), _('Flight Control'), _('HOTAS')}}, { pressed = hotas_commands.STICK_TRIMMER_RIGHT, up = hotas_commands.STICK_TRIMMER_RIGHT, cockpit_device_id = devices.HOTAS, value_pressed = 0.5, value_up = 0.0, name = _('Trimmer Switch - RIGHT WING DOWN'), category = {_('Stick'), _('Flight Control'), _('HOTAS')}}, I appreciate if someone can help me decreasing the trim sensitivity or how to properly modify the default.lua files to make the new trim values are working.