Hi fellow simmers,

I am trying to get realistic trim sensitivity settings for the rocker switch on the throttle of my joystick.

I fly the C172 in the sim a lot, and have many hours flying a real C-172,

but it continuously climbs and descends and requires constant trim adjustments unlike the real thing and its very frustrating for me.

Are there some sensitivity settings to make things better?

I need some specific instructions please.

Thanks again

Hello Raptor.  I never did get trim to work properly on the rocker switch, so I used it for rudder instead, as my twist grip was a bit over sensitive on mine and I found it hard to keep it straight down the runway.

In the end I used two buttons on the top of the joystick - one for trim up and the other for trim down of course.  I found a single click gave fine movement, but holding a button made it enter a repeated command so it moves a bit quicker, similar to how your keyboard works if you hold down a key

I found I could control trim easily then.  I found the C172 easy to trim out using this system.  Pick an external view ('end' key) and look at how the trim responds on the gauge then to get used to it.  Unless you have a dedicated trim wheel, this is about the only way.  It is possible to get used to it.

Edited February 28, 20215 yr by bobcat999

Thanks, I'll give that a try.