Hi,Just received CH yoke and pedals. Sure easier than the mouse/keyboard.I have a question, though. When adjusting sensivities, does moving the slider to the right increase or decrease sensitivity? My pedals are too sensitive and the elevator is not sensitive enough. I guess adjusting the "null" is important too. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.Tom:)

tomI use fsuipcs joystick control,pete has added a control smoothing curve so that the response of the axis gets more agressive as you turn it allowing for gradual turns with small control movement to hard turns with full control movement.Its a feature of fsuipc3.30 i think you have to register it for it to work but its well worth itregs keith

I have all CH products and I use the CH Control manager, it allows sensitivities adjustments and deadzones axis curves and more it replaces the default calibration and worked fine for me in 98se and now in xp pro. It has allowed me to actually use my controllers in some games that I could not calibrate correctly beforehand.heres a link to CH... http://www.chproducts.com/retail/tech_support.html"Note to self, close BOTH compression releases before taking off from your grandfathers field so you can clear the trees....ouch.

Hey Tom,If a picture is worth a thousand word, then here's 2,000 words worth.If you set the sensitivity and null zones only, this will work for most axes. My yoke's ailerons and elevator are an example. See the first attachment and examine the lower right-hand corner. It shows sensitivity and null zone and a graph of the signal your controller device will send to that axis. Notice that the graph shows a straight diagonal line (linear taper). The X-axis of the graph represents movement of the controller device (yoke, in this case). The Y-axis is the signal sent to the plane's control surface. This "linear taper" works fine for me on the aileron's elevator.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/84617.jpgThe rudder is another mattter. It was just too sensitive and made steering nearly impossible on the ground. I needed a "nonlinear taper" on the rudder (and nose wheel steering) axis. The second attachment shows a graph of this nonlinear taper. This time, notice how pedal movement near the center of the graph (X-axis) provides very little rudder movement (Y-axis), but as you continue to depress a pedal, full rudder movement is maintained.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/84618.jpgLike Crazed One, I use the CH Control Manager. I intend to try the adjustments provided by FSUIPC version 3.30 but haven't gotten around to it yet.I hope that this is helpful to you. R-

>I use fsuipcs joystick control,pete has added a control>smoothing curve so that the response of the axis gets more>agressive as you turn it allowing for gradual turns with small>control movement to hard turns with full control movement.Its>a feature of fsuipc3.30 i think you have to register it for it>to work but its well worth it~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hello;Good reply -- but,I have FSUIPC (payware/registered) and have the latest version. I know where to find it and all, but once I find it, I do not know what I am supposed to do with it, as per your example above, um, for example.Do you feel up to passing me some tips on this "control smoothing curve" deal?Thank you,DonaldS

just want to mention too- many people's CH pedals spike after a short time.I opened up the pots to see why they would be bad, and they're not- the grease just isn't spread. I can tell you how to fix them if you find you have this problem without needing new pots.

Hi,Thanks guys for your feedback - really good stuff! I didn't know that CH had a Control Manager. I'm sure all this info will help me keep the plane somewhere close to the runway and get somewhere above ground level before the runway ends.:-roll Tom:-)

Another thing to do is add a line to the fs9.cfg file. Under the {controls} section add:stick_sensitivity_mode=0That will make every control device a little less sensitive. Try it out and see if it works (in addition to the other good advice that was given).

HiWhen using to CH Control Manager do you also go and lock the devices in the FS9.cfg file with the following entries at the beginning of each device?locked=1I know that this was necessary when Fsuipc was used to calibrate the yoke and the pedals so that the settings of FS9 would not interfere with the settings of Fsuipc.But how is it when the CH Control Manager is used? I actually never saw anything about this.Thank you for any input.Walter

Hi Walter,Along with CHCM, I use Locked=1 in each joystick section of my cfg files. I don't know if it is necessary but I stated doing it ages ago (when Pete Dowson suggested it) and feel that it keeps the config file more stable and predictable.It works somewhat differetly in FS9; if you set Locked=0 (zero) to make adjustments in the FS9 settings, the "Locked" label may be missing when you exit FS9. That notwithstanding, Locked=1 does still work and keeps me from making foolish mistakes. R-

I tried following the above recommendation by downloading Control Manager Version 3.0. for my USB Pro Rudder pedals and Flight Sim YokeI have no idea how to use this thing. Either Mapped or direct. Everytime I start the sim it crashes back to the desktop.What am I doing wrong here. Any help?ThanksEd

I second that suggestion. It is an abolute must IMO.This setting should be the default, and the "other mode"should be the option (i.e., hyper_sensitivity_mode).

Hi Ed,It has been a long time since I set up my maps but I remember how difficult it was to decypher the manual. Like you I had several false starts but the info that you need is all in the documentaion, so just stick with it, you will get there. R-