The right use of axiscalibration feature

[drumelo]

Hi Pete

I would like some help using the axiscalibration feature.

The exact thing I want to do is to eliminate that exponencial response from my joystick - less sensitive in the center sections and very sensitive in the outer portions - making the control response of my joystick linear.

How do I make that? Is that the true use of axiscalibration? Or I misunderstood the use of this tool?

Using FS9, FSUIPC 3.22...

Thanks in advance, and get well from your surgery!

Drumond de Melo

[Pete Dowson]

I would like some help using the axiscalibration feature.

The exact thing I want to do is to eliminate that exponencial response from my joystick - less sensitive in the center sections and very sensitive in the outer portions - making the control response of my joystick linear.

How do I make that? Is that the true use of axiscalibration? Or I misunderstood the use of this tool?

You have misunderstood, sorry. Those facilities are for manipulating values entered directly into FSUIPC's flight controls offsets by an external driver program, such as that for the Aerosoft GA28R cockpit.

Exactly what you want is provided in the NEXT version of FSUIPC, 3.30, which is nearly ready but which is unfortunately delayed by my sight problems which limit my PC working to 30 minute bursts a few times a day. I hope to get 3.30 sorted out for release soon, but please don't hold your breath! :wink:

Regards,

Pete

[drumelo]

Hi Pete!

Thanks a lot for explaining. Glat to know that we will have that nasty control acceleration removed in FSUIPC 3.30!

But first, get well on that eye!!!! I don't mind waiting, as long as it takes!

Regards!

Drumond

[Pete Dowson]

Glat to know that we will have that nasty control acceleration removed in FSUIPC 3.30!

Sorry, I don't understand. Where do you get that from? The fix for FS control acceleration from certain panels is a Technical Page option which has been in FSUIPC for a long long time.

I don't mind waiting, as long as it takes!

Actually I think I misunderstood your original question. You said;

"The exact thing I want to do is to eliminate that exponencial response from my joystick - less sensitive in the center sections and very sensitive in the outer portions - making the control response of my joystick linear."

This is in actual fact the EXACT opposite of what most folks want and the opposite of the response curve facilities I have added in 3.30.

The standard response provided by normal joystick calibration is linear. The facilities I am adding provide a nice flatter, less sensitive, response near the centre, sloping (parabolic fashion, not exponentially) steeply at the extremes. This gives much more precise control in the normal flight ranges without losing the ability to reach the extremes when necessary.

It sounds like your joysticks give you the sort of response folks have been asking me for, already.

If you are talking instead about the time-based response system built into FS since FS2002 (or was it FS2000? I don't remember), just add "stick_sensitivity_mode=0" to the [Controls] section of your FS9.CFG file.

Regards,

Pete