Adjustable threshold for cyclic re-enable in "Central Position Trimmer Mode"?

[yngvef]

For flying with a spring loaded stick (Thrustmaster Warthog), I find the "Central Position Trimmer Mode" to be the best.

 

The basic principle is that when you press the trimmer button, the in-game cyclic position stays frozen at that deflection until you re-center the physical stick. Once the physical stick is centered, it once again controls the cyclic, but with a new "center" position.

 

Normally this works just fine, but on the Mi-24P I have the problem that the stick control re-enables too early, meaning my physical stick is not fully centered when it starts controlling the cyclic again, giving the cyclic a "nudge", causing instability. When trimming for hover just before landing, this can be very annoying as you don't want a sudden jolt of cyclic at that point.

 

It seems that there is a threshold for when the physical stick in considered to be "centered", and that threshold is too big (at least for me). 

 

I would like an adjustable slider in the specials menu where we could choose how close to center the physical stick has to be to re-enable cyclic input. 

 

Adding curve to the axis makes the problem a bit less, and I'm sure adding deadzone would help too (but I hate flying with deadzone, as it gets really twitchy in my opinion).

 

But the best would be a slider where you can choose how much stick input is required to re-enable the stick control.

[Blackeye]

If you have AP channels enabled it might not be the central trimmer option but rather the AP re-applying their previous offsets after a trim, which some people in the Russian forum have deemed a bug, though I've heard nothing official from ED.

[yngvef]

Yes, the autopilot may make the problem worse if it has a bug. But I can see on the control overlay that the stick starts responding a couple of centimeters before it reaches the middle after trimming. It is then interpreted by the game as a small cyclic input, but as the stick is moving towards the center at this time (I'm letting it go and the spring centers it) it gives just a "nudge" of cyclic in that direction before the physical stick is centered and the in-game cyclic is where I set the trimmer.

 

But obviously, if the autopilot is misbehaving, then that would probably make things worse.

 

Either way, I would love more options for setting up the trimmer mode so we can adapt it to personal preference as well as different sticks and equipment.