Thanks From a Newbie On The Forum.

[Tinkickef]

My A10C would occasionally suffer from an uncontrollable roll and yaw to port or starboard and this would usually end in ejecting from the AC. Other times it could get very antsy when reefing it around over the target area, esp in low cloud and on instruments.

 

At first it seemed like a deep stall, but often the gauges would show over 240mph, so more puzzling req. Then I thought it was an accellerated tip stall, but unloading the stick had no effect.

 

Even went as far as marvelling at the very strong katabatic winds causing a rotor in the lee of the mountains that were apparently modelled in DCS world.

 

Then I came across a thread on here, can't seem to find it again; that opined that such departures could be caused by a control set problem.

 

So thought and looked through all my tm warthog buttons and switches setup. Nope.

 

Then looked at my saitek pro flight rudder pedals..... low and behold it had a roll response dialled in, so started it up on ramp for a looksee. Yup, with a hard right rudder application the stbd aileron came up slowly and stayed up. Went back and cleared the erroneous control coupling and what a transformation, the thing flies in a straight line now and the autopilot is not as choosy as to when it refuses to engage.

 

Thing is a big clue that I missed was on playing back the mission track, oftentimes when taxying, I noticed the right aileron was raised which was puzzling, as I don't hold the stick when taxying, something battered into me by my old flying instructor in the days of yore when I could afford to do the real thing. That yoke is not a damn steering wheel he'd shout, when as a tyro flyer I'd try to steer round the corners of the taxiways.

I just put it down to yet another playback glitch.

 

Anyway, now I put down a wall of text, I made this first post a thank you to the community for helping me sort out my hog's misdemeanours.

 

Thanks.

Edited May 14, 2016 by Tinkickef

[feefifofum]

Welcome to DCS! :)

Glad you found what you were looking for.

[Gunrun_KS]

I had the same problem with the M-2000C. Glad you figured it out. :thumbup: