October 12, 201510 yr I have a Saitek X52 that I use to fly Helis and stick controlled aircraft (DA 42, sr22 etc.). I mapped the elevator and aileron axis to some rotary dials on the X52 throttle. My problem is that the trim movements are too sensitive; with a slight (and I mean slight) movement of the dial, the plane/heli lurches forward or backward. There is no way to adjust the sensitivity for these axis; however, I did see before closing out the sim last night that you can assign buttons for the elevator and aileron trim controls. How do you all adjust your trim controls, through the axis or buttons? Are the button increments smooth to get just the right setting? With my axis controls...it is always too much or too little.
October 12, 201510 yr I think you'd need a trim wheel to be able to adjust finely. I just use 2 buttons on my hotas, which works okay most of the time, and can provide reasonably fine tuning as long as one is not too heavy-fingered.
October 12, 201510 yr Commercial Member I have a Saitek trim wheel that I rather grew annoyed with in FSX; in XP it's darn near unusable. I suspect that it's more to do with the hardware. It just doesn't play nice with my system. As a result, in both sims, I use buttons mapped to elevator trim. I've found on my x-55, that mapping one of the four-way switches on the stick for both elevator and aileron trim works quite well, especially for helicopters. Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
October 13, 201510 yr I have a Saitek trim wheel that I rather grew annoyed with in FSX; in XP it's darn near unusable. I suspect that it's more to do with the hardware. It just doesn't play nice with my system. As a result, in both sims, I use buttons mapped to elevator trim. I've found on my x-55, that mapping one of the four-way switches on the stick for both elevator and aileron trim works quite well, especially for helicopters. Thanks. I have a Saitek trim wheel that I rather grew annoyed with in FSX; in XP it's darn near unusable. I suspect that it's more to do with the hardware. It just doesn't play nice with my system. As a result, in both sims, I use buttons mapped to elevator trim. I've found on my x-55, that mapping one of the four-way switches on the stick for both elevator and aileron trim works quite well, especially for helicopters. Thanks. I'll use the buttons going forward.
October 13, 201510 yr I use the Saitek X-52 upper left hat switch for elevator & aileron. Low middle is for view changes. My full size airplane also had a four way hat switch on the stick for elevator & aileron trim.
October 16, 201510 yr I use the Saitek X-52 upper left hat switch for elevator & aileron. Low middle is for view changes. My full size airplane also had a four way hat switch on the stick for elevator & aileron trim. Thanks, I am now using your setup...it works very well!!!
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