Improved Brake Control to Help Take-offs.

[Tea-Pig]

If your joystick doesn't have a convenient axis for brake control then this might help. Took me a little while to figure this out so I thought it was worth sharing.

 

 

[Terry Dactil]

Thanks for that. 

I was not aware how good were the capabilities of those programs and you has opened up a whole new world for me. 

 I think one of the obvious things Mosquito needs is a two speed elevator trim;

• short pov button press for a slow and very small increment
• longer press for the default movement which is way too fast for fine adjustments.

This should be possible, so I'm off to try and learn some new stuff today. 

Edited November 8, 2021 by Terry Dactil

[Tea-Pig]

I don't see why the same technique would not work for trims, or indeed anything else that would benefit from a ramped start. I'm a newcomer to Gremlin myself, and indeed to DCS too (prospect of a Mossie hooked me in). Never really felt the need for fancy joystick management with IL2 but DCS is a whole different beast. I just got a warthog throttle specially for the Mossie (split throttles) and the eclectic selection of locking switches is making me learn more Gremlin tricks.

[YoYo]

On 11/7/2021 at 1:57 PM, Tea-Pig said:

If your joystick doesn't have a convenient axis for brake control then this might help. Took me a little while to figure this out so I thought it was worth sharing.

 

Looks interesting, however I use TH Warthog.... I havent this software.

[VFRHawk]

Appears to be free @YoYo and works with any joystick according to its webpage.  I have a Warthog myself and intend to try this and the elevator trim idea too.  Using a trim buttom to map to a slider axis sounds like an excellent solution.

Don't want to include a link in case that contravenes the forum rules but a quick google found the site as its top response.

VFRHawk

[Tea-Pig]

I've got a Warthog too, at least the throttle half of it, but I've also got devices from the likes of Crosswind and Logitech so I decided to invest my time in learning a software that can talk to any device rather than Target which appears only to be interested in Thrustmaster products.

[No1sonuk]

I posted this earlier:
 

 

[Kirk66]

Hi,

I too have been learning to fly the Mosquito and needed to come up with a solution to the British brake issue- without it it is REALLY hard to taxi as braking is pretty much all or nothing when using the full TMWH HOTAS setup (stick/throttle/TPRs). My throttles are modded with this analog TDC mini-joystick (https://deltasimelectronics.com/) and I found that by setting it up to only apply up to 40% braking, with a big dead zone, and using a custom curve that only uses one side of the TDC mini-stick throw (down, in my case), I now have the ability to "tap" the brakes just enough for steering using the TDC mini-stick, while using the F-16 Paddle switch on the warthog stick to apply full brakes when needed (I use the pinky switch, along with the paddle switch, to engage the parking brake).

Takes a little getting used to and tweaking the custom curves to get the correct amount of braking, but it is a LOT better than "all or nothing" or trying to use only one of the TPR pedals!

Vulture