DCS: F-16C Viper Screenshots and Videos (NO DISCUSSION)

[Glide]

Not his day.

[Nazgûl]

 

[=617= Evil]

[Mach3DS]

 

[buceador]

 

[Gunfreak]

My most professional and successful mission on the F16 so far

 

 

[Mach3DS]

 

[Hikaruncat]

東北XD

Edited August 19 by Hikaruncat

[Gunfreak]

So the Winwing MFSSB base for the F16 is a cool piece of hardware, however there’s always been something off.

The “realistic” mode seem to be anything but realistic according to F16 pilots or pilots who have flown civilian aircraft with a force sensing stick. The force only mode seems to the most realistic one, but it has a serious downside and that is the fact the MFSSB has big nasty dead zone, the completely ruins how it’s supposed to be, trying to do accurate flying like AAR with a big ass dead zone isn’t very nice.

So many have used the movement + force. But that’s not ideal either.

I’ve had the MFSSB for almost two years now and never quite been happy with it. I got kinda used it it. But it always felt off.

I regularly goodled and asked others what settings they used to get the base working right, and you have as many answers as people.

Then doing one of my semi regular googelings I found out that for like a year people have found out the dead zone is because of a giant gap(2-3mm) between the roller bearings and sensors, that causes the dead zone as the force sensing won’t kick in until the roller bearings hit the sensor. There are several ways of fixing this, the MacGyver way just shove anything between the two bearings and the sensor, you can use a 3d printed part, or you can even use metal.

I did the cheap MacGyver way, and cut small strips of plastic from some random battery package, 3 layers of this thin plastic works well, so 6 small strips. And it works, it really does, dead zone is gone. The F16 answers as soon as you start using force on it.
To test I did a quick and easy dogfight with a MiG29. With some acrobatics and low flying to test the stick after winning. Stuff like trying to hit a slow moving damaged mig with guns used to be kinda a pain, with the dead zone, so getting the thing on the thing could be more complicated than it should be. But it was much easier now.

So in case you are using the WW MFSSB and have that problem with the base, just find what solution you want, shove it in there, and set the settings to force only and everything is great now.