Rudder Woes?

[Mike Busutil]

Still having issues over controlling the rudder? Try this as a temporary fix. 

Dead Zone = 0 because you want direct control and not sudden input.

Saturation X = 100 because you want to reach full rudder deflection at the end of your rudder pedal travel and not before.

Saturation Y = 35. This will limit the total travel of the rudder. 

Note how much rudder travel is default in the first image vs the reduced rudder travel in the second image. 

Curvature = 30 which will soften the travel input near the rudder center. 

For takeoff don't use more than 45 inHg of manifold to reduce engine torque. 

With these settings you will need to use more constant right rudder for takeoff (like the real world Corsair)

Try these settings a few times and see if it doesn't get you dialed in. 

Edited Monday at 01:42 AM by Mike Busutil

[Nealius]

32 minutes ago, Mike Busutil said:

Saturation Y = 35. This will limit the total travel of the rudder.

Wouldn't this cause issues in situations where we need total travel of the rudder (e.g. slow-speed aerobatics)?

[Mike Busutil]

Yes. This is not a long term fix but more of a setting that will allow pilots that are having a hard time figuring out how much rudder to use. This just dials the rudder control back until they feel comfortable enough to start turning it back up to normal travel. 

[Hariskut]

I feel that the problem now is not just that the rudder is too sensitive. More importantly, the aircraft's nose direction is overly sensitive to engine torque, making its directional stability quite poor. I’m not sure if this is an issue with the aerodynamic model or if it was originally designed this way.

[Qcumber]

1 hour ago, Hariskut said:

I feel that the problem now is not just that the rudder is too sensitive. More importantly, the aircraft's nose direction is overly sensitive to engine torque, making its directional stability quite poor. I’m not sure if this is an issue with the aerodynamic model or if it was originally designed this way.

I wonder if this is related to the long nose. Any yaw or pitch wobble might be exaggerated from the pilot perspective as they sit behind that centre of mass. In most warbirds the pilot sits over the wings and at the centre of mass so the pilot will remain still relative to the nose (at the fulcrum of a lever). In the F4U any wobble around the centre of mass will mean that the pilot and nose will move in opposite directs to each other (pilot and nose are at opposite ends of a lever; the centre of mass is the fulcrum). This would make any wobble look much worse from the pilots perspective. 

[JayDee1974]

I dont see any problems with the rudder at Takeoff and I definitely would not cut the max output. And you need a lot of rudder during takeoff, as one would expect (over 50% pedal with ~35% curve if you dont trim). Of course it is less, if you use trim, becauset trim works different then in real life. In real life you would neeed the same amount of rudder deflection regardless of trim setting, you just would need less force to hold or reach it. In the sim you need less joystick deflection, because of the trim the neutral point shifted. So if you would just not trim for takeoff at all, you would see how much rudder you would actually need. and that is something a really would recommend to use, if you wanna judge the flight model. So dont use trim for takeoff and landing, instead just use "more" right hardware rudder and right hardware stick, so you have feeling about the actuall deflections you need. Only trim during flight when you feel the need to do so. 

(Just to be clear, this all is just for non Force Feedback Hardware, which I assume is the case for the topic creator)

Cheers

Edited Monday at 09:43 AM by JayDee1974