Still far too sensitive in pitch, and the rudder trim has more authority than the rudder! 

Dm me if you're interested in trying the mod though. 

Not really having any issues with sensitivity, but I do use a fulcrum yoke with 8" pitch travel.

I am using the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro stick. Easier than cracking out the flight sim yoke...which may be less sensitive. 

7 hours ago, por930 said:

I looked today on flightsim.to, but the author is no longer providing the mod after almost 28,000 downloads...

I find the MSFS Kodiak a super twitchy aircraft and nothing like you see on YT videos of the aircraft. Take off there is a better than average chance of a left wing drop stall

Your control setup must be out of whack. 

 

Just bought it !

Now just have to get time to study the manuals 🙂

Starting with: Where can I regulate the G1000 displays brightness ?

Just now, jcomm said:

Just bought it !

Now just have to get time to study the manuals 🙂

Starting with: Where can I regulate the G1000 displays brightness ?

Press Menu, if you have the NXI. 

 

39 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Just bought it !

Now just have to get time to study the manuals 🙂

Starting with: Where can I regulate the G1000 displays brightness ?

If you want it brighter, don't waste your time, they default at 100%. Sure wish it went to 150% for my old tired eyes..

2 minutes ago, Pivot said:

If you want it brighter, don't waste your time, they default at 100%. Sure wish it went to 150% for my old tired eyes..

me too. I have the GTN 750 in my Arrow 3 and it is much brighter. 

Well, using Bob's suggestion and the NGXi, it's bright enough for me now 🙂

The Kodiak 100 is a MUST HAVE !

2 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Well, using Bob's suggestion and the NGXi, it's bright enough for me now 🙂

The Kodiak 100 is a MUST HAVE !

You will have fun doing the Rnav approaches with a glide slope too. Also the VNav on the NXI works great. 

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

Your control setup must be out of whack. 

 

Yeah, agree...Just flying tonight and noticed I seem to have no null zones any more. This of course makes everything way to over controlled. Need to reset my controls and the 'curve'

Love this Kodiak more than anything else in the sim right now. I mean....I love the DC6 and JF Arrows for their quality but this up there with the best. Probably the best GA/non-tubeliner planes in the sim right now (I know its not exactly GA but so many people seem to call it that). I fly this and the Seneca more than I have the JF Arrow combined, I'd say. Between the excellent physics, looks and systems....it's really well modeled. I followed SimFlightHangar on YT and that made it a lot easier to fly setting up the Honeycomb Alpha/Bravo controls. World of difference and made it less bouncy.

2 hours ago, Sonosusto said:

(I know its not exactly GA but so many people seem to call it that).

Why wouldn't it be GA?  If it's not Air Carrier or Military, it's got to be GA.

Well, not exactly.  I'd consider the Kodiak more of an air taxi / night freight kind of a platform.... more 135 than 91, using U.S. regs.

There is a bug in SU8 that likes to delete / reset control sensitivity settings every time the sim is launched.  Doesn't happen to everyone, but it is widespread. Worth keeping an eye out for it. 

That said, a good argument can be made that the Kodiak is still too sensitive in both pitch and yaw, with a rudder trim that moves too fast and is too effective.  These are the things the community mod tones down, though I still add some extremity dead zone to pitch on top of that.  This isn't a controls setup issue; if it was, this problem would exist on every aircraft in this sim (it doesn't), and in other sims like DCS (it doesn't).

This dovetails with the other discussion, that there are some weird default flight dynamics in this sim currently. They can be worked around, but it doesn't always happen. 

None of which is to say that you shouldn't be happy with the plane. If you like the way it flies as-is, that's all that matters for you.  But it's understandable why some feel the plane to be too "twitchy", especially if they're used to flying actual aircraft.  

11 minutes ago, Stearmandriver said:

 

None of which is to say that you shouldn't be happy with the plane. If you like the way it flies as-is, that's all that matters for you.  But it's understandable why some feel the plane to be too "twitchy", especially if they're used to flying actual aircraft.  

My speculation is the devs set the Kodiak pitch response on something like a Yoko (6" pitch axis) or a Fulcrum (8" pitch axis) which sacrifice desktop space for a longer pitch throw and use digital sensors and they did not take into account compact short throw yokes with analog pots, or even worse a combat flight stick with a short notchy super responsive action.  In other words they programmed it for a more realistic action on a closer to realistic yoke rather than compensating for the oddities of short action flight sticks and yokes.

By the way the raw sim already softens the centre on the roll axis. if you set a dead linear curve the first 2/3 of control movement only gets you about 1/3 of control surface response with the last 2/3 all crammed into the last bit of movement. Not a problem till you get something like the fulcrum with 180 degrees pitch each way.

The issue is if they program it for short notchy joysticks the action on something like my Fulcrum is going to be super slow. I would end up having to accelerate the early part of the curve or be moving the yoke several inches to get any sort of response.