Collective Brake - aka Collective Trim ... and why you should use it.

[Devrim]

A masterpiece. :D

Thanks MadDog-IC.

[schkorpio]

So can you cheat by flying without the collective brake / altitude hold.

 

Then when you want a stable altitude, turn on altitude hold, and press/release the collective brake?

 

 

 

 

Also when using radar altimeter, with altitude hold setup correctly - say at a low 20m, will the shark follow mildly hilly terrain and try to always stay 20m above the changing terrain?

 

 

 

Edit sorry one more question :)

When you engage hover hold, altitude hold channel gets enabled automatitcally, so you need to press the collective brake to tell it what altitude you want? or will it use the previously set altitude, or will it automatically use the current altitude.

[toby23]

I recently bought a G940 and installed BS2.

 

At the moment, I'm assigning (F) Collective Brake to Throttle 1 in the Logitech control panel and Throttle 2 axis is assigned as the Collective in DCS BS2.

 

This works great in the Black Shark module but overrides all of the other modules, ie P51D, Huey etc and that creates problems.

 

How can I assign the Collective Brake to an axis in DCS BS2 or is there another solution apart from a hardware mod?

[doveman]

Is anyone able to provide an AutoHotKey script (or something else) that will do this "press F when moving the collective", so that I can use it with my Thrustmaster Hotas X?

 

Definitely think this should be an option in-game, to automatically press F when moving the collective, for those of use (i.e. most people) who don't have an actual brake handle. I guess some people enjoy pressing a button to simulate pulling the brake handle but it seems so different that I'd certainly prefer it to be automatic, as it would be for a real pilot as he has no choice but to pull the lever to move the collective and it's right there under his fingers on the collective as he's holding it.