Rick50 Posted July 27, 2019 Posted July 27, 2019 Recently I saw a recommendation for helicopter sims that a very light or even removed spring makes it easier to fly a heli in a sim with better precision. I have a spare T.16000m stick, and I wonder if I can remove the stiff spring, but wonder if it won't work properly anymore, or if it would be fine??? I suspect this won't work, but hope I'm wrong. What do you think???
Top Jockey Posted July 27, 2019 Posted July 27, 2019 I have that model and if you remove the spring I "suspect" that... the stick will tip forward or to some corner. So I would advise against it. Jets Helis Maps FC 3 JA 37 Ka-50 Caucasus F-14 A/B MiG-23 Mi-8 MTV2 Nevada F-16 C MiG-29 F/A-18 C Mirage III E MiG-21 bis Mirage 2000 C i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB
Sokol1_br Posted July 27, 2019 Posted July 27, 2019 An option is remove the spring and put - externally, a rubber boot, this keep grip more or less centralized. For example, this with metal ball gimbal don't use spring, just the boot. http://forum.il2sturmovik.ru/uploads/monthly_08_2015/post-683-0-56808800-1439970591.jpg
Rick50 Posted July 28, 2019 Author Posted July 28, 2019 I have that model and if you remove the spring I "suspect" that... the stick will tip forward or to some corner. So I would advise against it. Actually that's the idea... but I wonder if without the spring, will the stick still be held in place? Will the sensors and commands still work? I might use some R/C car dampners on the stick instead of the spring, but either way it would feel more like a helicopter cyclic, as the further you move it, you don't get increasing resistance that you do on fixed wing a/c. I know some other sim heli pilots have removed springs from their joysticks for this reason, for more precise control of their helis, but I don't know if anyone's ever done it in the TM T.16000M yet, not even sure it's doable!
Rick50 Posted July 28, 2019 Author Posted July 28, 2019 An option is remove the spring and put - externally, a rubber boot, this keep grip more or less centralized. For example, this with metal ball gimbal don't use spring, just the boot. http://forum.il2sturmovik.ru/uploads/monthly_08_2015/post-683-0-56808800-1439970591.jpg Interesting... and it seems he added a few of his own buttons too! So he did remove the spring altogether then?
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