I'm pretty new to helos, but I did fly a few times in 2002 with the bell. My problem is that in 2002 I was able to trim the tail with the keyboard so it flew straight. The Robinson has a trim control on the one panel, but it's too hard to trim with the mouse, and I can't find the keyboard shortcut for this. I've only been able to find the controls listed in the learning center in FS9, but none seem to correspond with this action.Any ideas? Thanks,Chris

There is no such thing as tail rotor trim. Also, in FS9 trim is not modeled in the helos, other than possibly the pull-up control in the R22, but this is cyclic trim, not anti-torque. That control is intended to reduce the amount of pressure that's required on the cyclic in cruise flight (i.e. straight and level).You really need pedals in your controller setup, or at the very least (although I don't recommend it) a twist joystick. You need to be able to control the yaw axis at all times in helicopters.Dave Blevins

I don't know anything about helicopters -- I am always flying sideways, it seems -- but on the Robinson at least there is such a thing as "rotor trim." It's on one of the hidden panels in the cockpit view and under the radio stack in the virtual cockpit. The trouble is assigning it to a pair of buttons. To my knowledge, there's no way to do it in the sim. So, 1. Know what function is assigned to what button on your existing setup.2. Find your fs9.cfg file, make a backup.3. Open fs9.cfg in Notepad or similar.4. Scroll down to the button assignments for your controller. 5. Find the buttons that you want to use for rotor trim. You will want two, just like other kinds of trim. Me, I used the buttons that I was using for elevator trim on fixed wing aircraft. 6. Here's the important part: The normal format for a button assignment is BUTTON_DOWN_EVENT_xx=[function]where xx=the number of the button as assigned by FS and [function] = the FS code for what the button does. My advice is to leave xx alone and just paste something over the existing function for the button you want to use. Here's what the button assignments for my setup look like:BUTTON_DOWN_EVENT_00=ROTOR_LATERAL_TRIM_DECBUTTON_DOWN_REPEAT_00=1BUTTON_DOWN_EVENT_01=PLUSBUTTON_DOWN_EVENT_02=ROTOR_LATERAL_TRIM_INCBUTTON_DOWN_REPEAT_02=1Line 3 has nothing to do with rotor trim; ignroe it. Line 1 decreases rotor trim. Line 2 says "decrease it more if he holds down the button." Line 4 increases rotor trim. Line 5 says "increase it more if he holds down the button."7. For whatever reason, I haven't been able to operate the rotor trim knob from the VC. I can do it from the cockpit view. But it's a lot handier to have it on a couple of buttons.8. Rotor trim works differently from other kinds of trim. I don't understand helicopters enough at this point to explain it accurately. But play with it. Its main function is to relieve you from holding the cyclic to one side all the time. (Which side I don't remember. That's lame, isn't it.)9. If this doesn't work for you, fiddle around. If that doesn't work, revert to your backup of fs9.cfg. You did make a copy, didn't you? See #2.