I don't know why its happening but Force Feedback is all over the place with this thing. I'll set A/P on, then go back in to manual flight but when I try and grab the joystick, the thing hops up and down about 3 times. I'm hardly touching it... Its like its playing a game of catch me or something because it moves hard and really fast. I don't bolt it down, so the thing litterally bounces about 2-3 cm each time it hops. Now I could turn FF back off but that ruins the experience. I turn it down to defaults and its doing this, and on default levels it feels week enough.Just wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this or had some sort of fix. I mean... I'll have to take a video of its behavior... very eradic and its movements just don't make sense.

I haven't tried it with the autopilot but it does have a feature to detect whether or not your hand is on the stick, and it jumps around a bit when you let go of it or try to grab it again. As I understand it, it's a safety feature to disable force feedback when the stick isn't under your direct control. The autopilot behavior you describe sounds consistent with that - though I'll defer to friens who have worked with the stick longer than I have - I've just been using it for about 10 days.If you're not using it already, check out FS Force as an alternative to the FSX force feedback system - a major improvement.Hope this helps.Best,Alan

Thanks for the suggestion, but couldn't get FS Force working. Perhaps because I'm using Windows 7?

I haven't tried it with the autopilot but it does have a feature to detect whether or not your hand is on the stick, and it jumps around a bit when you let go of it or try to grab it again. As I understand it, it's a safety feature to disable force feedback when the stick isn't under your direct control. The autopilot behavior you describe sounds consistent with that - though I'll defer to friens who have worked with the stick longer than I have - I've just been using it for about 10 days.If you're not using it already, check out FS Force as an alternative to the FSX force feedback system - a major improvement.Hope this helps.Best,Alan

I'm running FS Force in Win7 64 bit, and it works just fine. I wondered what the "grip sensor" did ..... so it disables FFB if you take your hand off (like to use the mouse momentarily)? I assume it comes back when you grasp the stick again? I'll have to experiment.krswen

I'm running FS Force in Win7 64 bit, and it works just fine. I wondered what the "grip sensor" did ..... so it disables FFB if you take your hand off (like to use the mouse momentarily)? I assume it comes back when you grasp the stick again? I'll have to experiment.krswen

Yes, it runs normally as long as you've got your hand on the stick, and resumes when you grip the stick again - just bucks violently when you take your hand off. It took me a while to get used to it, but I'm managing - and overall, it's a great stick.

Does it start bucking once you fully grasp it, or even if you just graze it. I hardly touch mine.. I'm not even sure if I'm touching it when it happens. It's like I'm litely grazing it... like take your pinky and graze your arm hair or something like that. I want so much to use FFB, but when I'm using FSPassengers or AirHauler and that kicks in during a flight, there goes my ranking or I just shattered some fragile cargo.So for now, I shall have to go without it unfortunatly. I'd love to try out some other equipment, but being in Thailand I was shocked to even find a few boxes of G940s at an electronics mall here in BKK. They didn't have the Saitek which is what I was really looking for at first. Saw the G940 and was like... gotta have it! Haha. Paid premium on the import tax too...

It definitely bucks when you graze it. When you grasp it, it should settle down but sometimes kicks once. I mostly fly GA, and most often solo, so there's no one but me to complain about the ride.It's a strangeness, but I'm willling to put up with it for the immersion (not exactly the same thing as realism, but nice in its own way). I like the system - especially since I disocvered that the FS Force "Medium GA" profile works best for my light GA (the "Light GA" profile isn't stiff enough for me). But I can see where FSPassengers or AirHauler would object to some of what it's doing.I'll try to explore a bit and see if there's a way to tone down that behavior.Alan