Trim adjustment: incremental or continuous?

[Razor18]

that's why you should trim for the speed (with the refuel flap open) before you get to the pump

 

I think you trim for any speed AFTER you set it with your throttles, don't you? Or anyone trimms before reaching that speed? That's why I started my question with "stabilized behind the tanker with speed OK" :smilewink:

 

 

Contactor.cfg has a line for Trimmer Gain, set to 1.0 by default... knocking this down to 0.5 seems to make a difference - it might also just be a placebo effect.

 

I will try to modify what you said, thanks for that above all!

[Wolf Rider]

I think you trim for any speed AFTER you set it with your throttles, don't you? Or anyone trimms before reaching that speed? That's why I started my question with "stabilized behind the tanker with speed OK" :smilewink:

 

 

its a combination of both

 

 

I will try to modify what you said, thanks for that above all!

 

The school is still out on this one, so please let us know how you go... as I tried to say, "it might help, it might have no effect"

[Razor18]

Contactor.cfg has a line for Trimmer Gain, set to 1.0 by default... knocking this down to 0.5 seems to make a difference - it might also just be a placebo effect.

 

Contactor.cfg contains:

TrimmerGain = 1.0;

ShakeGain = 0.5;

SwapForceAxes = 0;

MinForce = 0.7;

MinForceIAS = 85.0;

MaxForce = 1.0;

MaxForceIAS = 250.0;

 

Didn't try it yet with trimmer gain set to 0.5, but looking at the other value names, it rather looks being some sort of Force Feedback settings to me. Will try it anyway.

 

Cheers

[Nealius]

How can you trim for speed when tanking? I tried it once and the trim increments were too excessive to be any use and had to do it manually.

[ricktoberfest]

How can you trim for speed when tanking? I tried it once and the trim increments were too excessive to be any use and had to do it manually.

 

 

Trim for 180kts while in pre contact position. Then pull in behind the tanker and reduce throttle back to trimmed position. Now if you need to go up, you very slightly increase throttle. Down is reducing throttle. The amount is tiny, if done right the throttle should control pitch/altitude and speed should stay the same 180kts you trimmed for.

 

You will still need to adjust constantly to keep in position - as in real life. If it was easy, anyone could do it!

[Nealius]

A KC-135 would fall out of the sky at 180kts...

[ricktoberfest]

A KC-135 would fall out of the sky at 180kts...

 

 

That's the speed of the one that I use to practice! At flight level 20 btw

[Yurgon]

At flight level 20 btw

 

Flight Level or Angels? AAR at 2000ft sure is a sight for the crowd on the ground. :D

[Thick8]

I'm trying to find a fix for the trim as well. I did my GA flight training in 2 aircraft. One had a manual trim wheel and the other an electric trim switch. the trim in both aircraft is MUCH more accurate than the DCS aircraft. FSX trim is much more accurate as well. So the issue is with DCS. There's got to be a setting in a LUA file somewhere.

John