January 26, 20242 yr Can anyone help with how to set up my controls on Xplane 11 for more realism. I have Saitek yoke with Leo Bodnar adapter for Elevator and Ailerons, Saitek Throttle quadrant and trim wheel, and Saitek pedals. PC is Win10 with i5 4 core running at 4.2GHz 16Gb memory and 250Gb SSD. Whenever I try to fly any of the light GA aircraft the contols feel like they are connected with elastic bands rather than steel cables and are damped with treacle. The reaction to control inputs is so wildly inaccurate it make a normal take off and climb almost impossible. As a PPL holder with over 800 hours of real flight, I'm desparately trying to get my system set up to practice instrument flying but find it no use at all due to the poor control response. Is this all I can expect from a PC based Flight Sim or is there a solution? Many thanks for whatever advise you can offer, Bob.
January 26, 20242 yr what fps are you getting? xplanes physics break down completely below 20fps, start getting sketchy when you get close to that. show fps in cockpit from the data out settings to see them Edited January 26, 20242 yr by mSparks AutoATC Developer
January 26, 20242 yr Hi @PilotBobUK. I don't think there is a solution for our home based sims. There are a lot of factors working against that solution. Control throw, stiffening with speed, seat of our pants, relatively inexpensive hardware controls, etc. Using the sensitivity curves provided (changing small increments each time) I am able to have a particular aircraft model approximate what I see happen when moving a control surface.
January 26, 20242 yr Author 5 hours ago, mSparks said: what fps are you getting? xplanes physics break down completely below 20fps, start getting sketchy when you get close to that. show fps in cockpit from the data out settings to see them Currently 38fps, I've tried reducing the scenery resolution to free up some processor time but no joy
January 26, 20242 yr 3 hours ago, PilotBobUK said: Currently 38fps, I've tried reducing the scenery resolution to free up some processor time but no joy is that maintained in flight, its not enough to have it sometimes, it needs to be all the time, there are other tools like graphs etc you can use to check. FPS ruled out. 12 hours ago, PilotBobUK said: any of the light GA aircraft every one is to a different standard tbh, some better than others, depends on how well they specified the different flight elements, but since you said 12 hours ago, PilotBobUK said: feel like they are connected with elastic bands rather than steel cables and are damped with treacle. ctrl + m will cycle through the different flight model views, what you probably want to look at is "element forces" that will bring up the vectors being used to calculate the aircraft behaviour they will respond to your inputs/wind/airspeed etc, check they are looking sensible, joystick page also has response curve and control sensitivity setting. My guess from what you have described is this Leo Bodnar adapter is adding a load of latency between your control inputs and the sim receiving them, all the bars on the joystick page should be instant & accurate with no delay between moving the axis and the blue bar for that axis moving respectively. Edited January 26, 20242 yr by mSparks AutoATC Developer
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