Anyone Using Thrustmaster Warthog?

I'm continuing my X-Plane 9 explorations in anticipation of X-Plane 10, and, like a lot of MSFS veterans, am struggling a bit with the flight modeling.Obviously my experience varies from one aircraft to another, but I find that even with the best I've experienced (the MU-2, the BK 117) it's hard for me to avoid the puppet-on-a-string flight dynamics. The only way I've found to damp out the bounciness is to push the stability sliders way high - above 60 percent, and sometimes to 80 or 100 percent. I know that's not supposed to be "realistic," but neither is the weightless, jerky feel I get when the settings are lower.I'm wondering if part of the issue might be my joystick. I use the Thrustmaster HOTAS Wartog, which as you may know is very precise (thanks to the Hall Effect sensors) and very sensitive. It's fine for me in FSX with sensitivities maxxed and null zones zeroed out. But in X-Plane that approach doesn't seem to cut it. Some damping seems to be in order.I'm wondering of any of you has experienced the same thing, or if it's just me. If you use the Warthog in X-Plane 9, what settings do you apply?Side observation #1 - it seems to me as an X-Plane newbie that when flight modeling in X-Plane is bad, it's bad in a way totally unlike bad FSX flight modeling. A bad FSX flight model tends to be too stable - it seems to run on rails. From what I can tell, bad X-Plane flight modeling is the opposite - it's excessively unstable, and the challenge is to give the aircraft a sense of mass and inertia. The best models from each program seem to meet in the middle - the MU-2 and the BK 117, like the RealAir aircraft for FSX, manage to suggest an object with weight and momentum moving in the air mass.Side observation #2 - my Warthog doens't seem to like my flying helos - it won't let me use the throttle as collective, and insists that I remap the throttle axis as collective whenever I switch to a helo. Anyone else experience this?Apologies for anything about X-Plane that I'm getting wrong (I'm new at this) and thanks in advance for any light you can shed.Best,Alan