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Thanks Pete! Sorry for taking so long to get back. I know it sounds odd to want a more "severe" response near center, but I have two reasons: One, a trick I learned flying RC helicopters, is that if it's numb near the center, while precision hovering is a little easier, it is also easier to overcorrect when moving the cyclic farther and digging into the aggressive part of the curve. The second reason is that my X52 seems to have an odd response itself. Comparing the joystick to the visual cyclic/yoke in the sim, moving the joystick has a very small effect until the extreme edges of joystick travel, when the sim cyclic jumps to catch up. It's like it has a lot of built in smoothing, and using the aggressive slope in FSUIPC counters this.

That's what I'm sayingthe numbers don't match the picture. I want my joystick to be more responsive around the center, so I use a negative value. I move the slider to -2, and the picture shows just a small curve, but the aircraft are hypersenstive, and the numbers confirm this. If I set the slider all the way to -15, the picture shows a dramatic curve, but the aircraft responds much more mellow, closer to default response, and the numbers also jive with this. I'm not concerned with the setting number, ie -2 or -15, it just seems the response is opposite what the picture shows. I'm happy with a setting of -12, now that I know what it's doing. It was frustrating at first, because I was looking for a small adjustment from default. One click (-1) made little difference, but one more click (-2) made the aircraft almost unflyable. It wasn't until I experimented so I could tell you the exact problem I was having, that I found I needed a lot of clicks (-12 to -15) to get the small change I was looking for. But I also discovered one click (-1) has the OPPOSITE response, and deadens the stick near center. Again, I'm not concerned with the setting number, just using them as reference points. And I'm not complaining --I've found a setting that works for me, just bringing your attention to something that doesn't make sense to a less computer saavy user like myself. :)

I've been playing around with the Slope settings in the joystick calibration menu of FSUIPC4, and I think I've stumbled on a problem. The positive slope values respond fine, but the negative values seem to be reversed. A slope setting of -2 has the most extreme effect on the controls, while a setting of -15 has the mildest effect. Even stranger, a setting of -1 responds more like the positive side of the slope curve. At first I thought it was my imagination, but the input and output values confirmed this during some semi-empirical testing. Could you tell me if I have this installed incorrectly, or perhaps I'm interpreting this incorrectly? Thanks FSX/Acceleration FSUIPC4 v4.40 Vista 64 Saitek X52 pro and pro pedals