Does anyone else have THIS control problem?

[chief]

I am pretty new to this all guys so please bear with me. I have figured out the trim thing and all but this keeps re-occuring. My joystick (saitek X52) keeps locking up temporarily. I have it all trimmed out in cruise lets say and now i want to slow it down a bit. So i slowly pull back on the pitch cyclic and lower the collective to maintain altitude. I have the "Show Controls Indicator" (Enter-RCntrl) window open and the controls arent doing a darn thing. If I pause th egame and go into the windows control panel to check the game controller there it looks just fine. Go back into the game and the controls are still frozen. Now the only way to free them up is to do a trimmer reset or sometimes if i violently throw the control to its full limit it will free up the controls but needless to say either one of these solutions at 280kph does wonders to your flight path. Does anyone else have this problem or am I missing something in the game? Thanks a bunch. BTW running patch 1.01C. The cyclics are all calibrated through BS. 5% deadzone which isn't much and thats it!

[sobek]

Which trimmer method do you use?

[chief]

Well if you are referring to with FD on or off........then both i have tried!

[sobek]

No, i am referring to the trimmer method that can be chosen from the options menu. Old or new.

[chief]

Central position trimmer mode. Should I change that?

[chief]

I turned that off now and it seems to be working good.Will test it for a while

[EtherealN]

The two trimmer methods work like this, basically:

 

Old method: when you trim the simulator sets your position as a new "centre" and then gives you a period of time (I believe it's 0.5 seconds) to center your controls before it starts taking input from your stick again.

 

New method: this one is the default now, I believe, and when you trim with it the simulator will stop taking input until you have centered. No specific time period involved, it'll just wait. If you (for whatever reason) don't manage to get your controls centered it won't take any commands and you'll have the impression of "frozen" controls.

[sobek]

^^^^^^ What he said :)

[chief]

The two trimmer methods work like this, basically:

 

Old method: when you trim the simulator sets your position as a new "centre" and then gives you a period of time (I believe it's 0.5 seconds) to center your controls before it starts taking input from your stick again.

 

New method: this one is the default now, I believe, and when you trim with it the simulator will stop taking input until you have centered. No specific time period involved, it'll just wait. If you (for whatever reason) don't manage to get your controls centered it won't take any commands and you'll have the impression of "frozen" controls.

 

 

Ahhh gotcha. So the New method that I WAS using sounds like were the problems lies. It sounds like the sim doesn't recognize my controls as being centred. But they are centred and have been centred for a while before I make my next input. This is weird because as some X52 owners know, the X52 has very good re-centring properties as well does my Saitek Flight Yoke. ALWAYS returns to dead centre every time (according to windows control panel). So far the old method seems to be working though. I will definitely look into trying to cure that though. Thanks for that input guys. I appreciate it.

[EinsteinEP]

Don't forget, with the "new" trimmer method, you have to center your cyclic AND YOUR RUDDER inputs before it accepts either input again.

[chief]

Thanks! Thats where it was always biting me in the a*s. I wasn't centering the rudder! DOH!

[Ramstein]

I made a new change to my Saitek X52 Pro BS profile..

 

see this fourm post I made..

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=48325

 

here is the Saitek forum link.. you must be registered there..

 

http://www.saitekforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

 

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