PSA...pitch and roll axis curves

[VC]

-15 is indeed a bit too much. But, the sensitivity around the center is not that bad overall. It seems the plane is quite heavily damped, with curve to -10 I can see the stick in the cockpit move a lot for small inputs of my actual JS on my desk, but the plane just doesn't respond a whole lot.

[Donut]

I am curious to hear what stick curves Heatblur and the real Tomcat pilots on here are using...

[Donut]

Well, I spoke too soon...already snapped my wings twice now in two flights after going from -15 to 0 curves....

 

Does anyone else feel like they are walking on egg shells when maneuvering the Tomcat?

 

Another thing that may be throwing me off is the spring on my stick. I have an X55 which comes with several interchangeable springs of varying tension. I have been using the lightest one which may be causing me to easily over pull. I see that a lot of those who have +15 curves also have Warthog sticks. I wonder what the spring tension on those feels like. I made a different thread trying to figure that out...https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=238497

Edited April 9, 2019 by =BJM=

[lucky-hendrix]

Go with the heaviest spring you have. Even then it will way less than the real plane

 

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[Xenovia]

Well, I spoke too soon...already snapped my wings twice now in two flights after going from -15 to 0 curves....

 

Does anyone else feel like they are walking on egg shells when maneuvering the Tomcat?

Nope, I haven't snapped my wings unintentionally yet. I'm getting to understand the Tomcat more and more, so its easier to transition from -15 to 0.

[VC]

Did a few loops and hard turns with full AB and 0 curve, no wing snap. Had to go deliberately ham-handed to break it.

 

My conclusion is, it's about the speed of the stick movement in the high-G region. By putting the G on gently and watching the acceleremeter, I got to nearly 10G and blacked out before the plane snapped. Next time, I broke wings at about 9G without blackout by pulling suddenly from 8G to 9G. So this confirms for me that the steepness of the positive curve in this region makes breaking wings more likely.

 

Might leave mine on 0 for now or got for -5 to -10. I flew a few test dogfights with 0 and wasn't really paying attention, so I kept blacking out. That's a good sign, a couple of weeks ago each of those blackouts would have been a wing-snap instead.

Edited April 10, 2019 by VC