G940+Black Shark-How to release pressure off the stick when you trim temporary fix

I've had a G940 for about a week. I have searched high and low for a way to make the stick release pressure when you hold the trim button.

I am one of the guys who holds the trim button down to manover then release when I get to the position I want. The trim works really good on the G940 to hold it in position where it is trimmed but doesn't release pressure as in the real thing when the button is held in.

I have devised a temporary fix until ED/Logitech can work out why it doesnt work good. I played with this for hours until I came up with this.

In your profiler: Open the the trimmer command or make a new one (t is by default the key for trim) if you deleted their profile. Click the "Edit" button. A box will open called "Record Command Options" make sure that the "Record pauses" is uncheck and set the command rate to the fastest setting. You are done. Go in game and try it.

What it does is pulse the trimmer so that in effect you are removing the force when you hold the button down. The only annoyance with this method is the trimmer click sound repeating so fast...

It FINALLY works the way it should, someone just needs to make a Modman pack to remove the trimmer button sound and everyone should be happy.....

the 2 files you can temporarily remove are in C:\Program Files (x86)\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\Sounds\Effects :

Trimmerclickhold.wav

Trimmerclickrelease.wav

Then you will not get trimmer buton sound spam....

I have also gone in the axis tune for the pedals(in game) and set the Y saturation for the pedals to 20(everything else default)

It keeps the chopper from yawing excessively and seems to work better with the FFB trim. It doesn't react really fast but adds a lot to control ability.

Now I know why sometimes with my X52 pro the helicopter would spin uncontrolably and I would have to hit trim reset. It's the rudders being linked to the trim and the game loosing track of where the peddals(or twist stick) position is...

I did not touch the pedals and I noticed that with steady stable rudder settings it will not stop increasing rudder. So if my feet are say 20% left rudder, that will compound while I have the trim button held. So, its like its constantly trimming if that makes sense. I will try the 20% thing and see what that does.

Yup, still does the same thing. Do you not get the same reaction while holding a fixed rudder position and the trimmer?

You have to tap x oy z and the pedal will go back to normal. You can do a workaround with the rudder pedals by going into the profiler and swtching your rudder to use the keyboard rudder keys instead of an axis.

Make a new Axis command and assign the preprogramed keys for rudder left and rudder right to axis left and axis right.

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Heres my DCS:BS profile if you want to try it. Just import it into your profiler. Make sure you backup your profile first.

Again make sure your program path to the .exe is correct

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Am I right in thinking that with this stick trimming works like a real helicopter - i.e. the cyclic stays in its position when you release the trimmer?

Has anyone found flying the Shark more intuitive/easier when you don't need to re-center the stick after every trim?

Ignore. Plenty of threads on the topic.:music_whistling:

I've had a G940 for about a week. I have searched high and low for a way to make the stick release pressure when you hold the trim button.

I don't get why you are experiencing this, but I have had no problem with my g940 releasing pressure when I hold down the trim button. maybe my settings are much different than yours.

That would get kind of annoying hearing that constant clicking noise. Maybe you should try adjusting your settings. You can try my settings. here is a link.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=45695&highlight=slop&page=12

Guys this is a bit off topic, but I'm curious to know how you find the Logitech hotas with Black Shark/DCS A-10C. I wouldn't mind getting all three, stick, throttle and rudders for $250 vs $500 for warthog...(although she looks VERY nice).

Rocking the x52 now and it works nicely for all my sims, but she's showing her age...whatever advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys!

I own all 3. It is definately an upgrade and will make flying DCS:BS a treat ( once you get it set up to your liking)

The WH is quite a bit better quality but as you stated it's aprox $500 depending where you live etc. AND you still have to get seperate pedals. so the real cost is closer to $700+

If you are used to the SST software you will jump right in on the Logitech stuff. It's almost exactly the same ( rumor has it same programmers)

The stick has a few small issues and Logitech is slow on their software updates but bottom line is you cant get a complete OOB setup like this for $250.

I'm also having the same Trim trouble

I have just brought a G940 this week and i'm loving it!, been flying lots of DCS A-10 beta with it and just started trying it with Blackshark its way more precise than the Logitech Force 3d Pro I have been using for Blackshark for ages.

But i'm also getting this really annoying bug where the trimmer is not releasing to force on the stick to!

I will use Slayer's fix for now (thanks +1) but it is not really expectable that my cheapy force 3d pro worked as expected and correct and my new £250 G940 needs a work around! Someone has cocked up in there bug testing.

I don't understand how it is affecting some users and not others.

I am running windows 7

logitech profile 5.10.217

and Black Shark 1.0.2

and have updated the joystick firmware to the latest version.

If anyone knows how to fix this properly with a driver update or so file hacking you would be a god in my eyes.

thanks. jib