3 Days and Haven't Flown Yet

[John Snyder Jr 42]

I've had this new simulator going on 3 days now and yet to fly it. The controls are so sensitive it's impossible to fly. I take off and go up about 200 feet and the darn thing gets out of control immediately. The graphics are awesome, sure with I could figure out how to fly the thing. 

[fogboundturtle 2,708]

adjust your sensitivity in control ?

[Andreas Stangenes 1,628]

Make sure you have mapped the axis functions on your axis and not the button functions. 

[FrankR409 514]

2 minutes ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

Make sure you have mapped the axis functions on your axis and not the button functions. 

I did the same thing, I mismapped the controller..good Lord, the plane was everywhere!

[John Snyder Jr 42]

I'm about to delete every binding that came with this game and start from scratch. 

[dobee51 346]

2 hours ago, John Snyder Jr said:

I've had this new simulator going on 3 days now and yet to fly it. The controls are so sensitive it's impossible to fly. I take off and go up about 200 feet and the darn thing gets out of control immediately. The graphics are awesome, sure with I could figure out how to fly the thing. 

How's your elevator trim? Trimmed for T/o? That usually throws me out of control.

[DylanM 1,069]

2 hours ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

Make sure you have mapped the axis functions on your axis and not the button functions. 

Check this - I made the exact same mistake and the throttle was driving me bonkers

[__v__ 16]

8 minutes ago, dobee51 said:

How's your elevator trim? Trimmed for T/o? That usually throws me out of control.

The trim has screwed me over a few times now. I think there is a bug somewhere here as well. Some flights (with the same plane) are perfectly fine. Then I pick a different plane and my trim magically starts heading for full nose down. I furiously put in up trim, sort it out, then it starts heading back down. I tried looking for something else mapped to the trim, but saw nothing. As a side note, finding what is mapped to what is a bit of treasure hunt. I have three controllers plugged in and spend 10 minutes trying to find out if something is mapped somewhere.

[Brandon01110 407]

3 minutes ago, __v__ said:

The trim has screwed me over a few times now. I think there is a bug somewhere here as well. Some flights (with the same plane) are perfectly fine. Then I pick a different plane and my trim magically starts heading for full nose down. I furiously put in up trim, sort it out, then it starts heading back down. I tried looking for something else mapped to the trim, but saw nothing. As a side note, finding what is mapped to what is a bit of treasure hunt. I have three controllers plugged in and spend 10 minutes trying to find out if something is mapped somewhere.

autopilot is probably on doing that, it was on without me enabling it.  deactivate autopilot and all is well.

[__v__ 16]

1 minute ago, Brandon01110 said:

autopilot is probably on doing that, it was on without me enabling it.  deactivate autopilot and all is well.

Oh, that makes sense! I'll check that next time. Thanks!!

[DylanC 181]

3 hours ago, John Snyder Jr said:

I've had this new simulator going on 3 days now and yet to fly it. The controls are so sensitive it's impossible to fly. I take off and go up about 200 feet and the darn thing gets out of control immediately. The graphics are awesome, sure with I could figure out how to fly the thing. 

Think this is pinned somewhere, but Squirrel did a great video on setting up peripherals that may help.

 

[Christopher Low 5,339]

8 hours ago, __v__ said:

The trim has screwed me over a few times now. I think there is a bug somewhere here as well. Some flights (with the same plane) are perfectly fine. Then I pick a different plane and my trim magically starts heading for full nose down. I furiously put in up trim, sort it out, then it starts heading back down. I tried looking for something else mapped to the trim, but saw nothing. As a side note, finding what is mapped to what is a bit of treasure hunt. I have three controllers plugged in and spend 10 minutes trying to find out if something is mapped somewhere.

Sounds like MCAS. I would stay on the ground until you sort it out!

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

12 hours ago, John Snyder Jr said:

I've had this new simulator going on 3 days now and yet to fly it. The controls are so sensitive it's impossible to fly. I take off and go up about 200 feet and the darn thing gets out of control immediately. The graphics are awesome, sure with I could figure out how to fly the thing. 

Set all your DEAD ZONES to between 15-20 % and you will love it.  No sketchiness at all.  I have all mine personally now at 15% across the board...and it gives me the same input feeling as I had in P3D and XP11.x  All good!

[Nedo68 533]

9 hours ago, dobee51 said:

How's your elevator trim? Trimmed for T/o? That usually throws me out of control.

yes true, thats why i before start check all axis, especially the trim axis!

i do a full maximum movement up/down and set it to takeoff.

forgetting the check starting without checking the trim wheel before has often led me almost to a crash!

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25 minutes ago, Sesquashtoo said:

Set all your DEAD ZONES to between 15-20 % and you will love it.  No sketchiness at all.  I have all mine personally now at 15% across the board...and it gives me the same input feeling as I had in P3D and XP11.x  All good!

Interesting. What flight controls do you use?