Elevator sensitivity issue

[Tailskid]

I have install the 3.47 release and re-calibrated the flight controls. I am having problems with the elevator trim being extremely sensitive. When I go to Joysticks page 6/Elevator trim and click "Reset" I get -16380 Min, -512/+512 center, and 16380 Max. When I click on "Set", on each the value goes to 0. I noticed that on my FS Joystick assignments that there is no trim axis assigned. I have tried to follow your instructions very closely, but I can't seem to find a way to reduce this sensitivity. I hope that you can point me in the right direction. Thanks Tailskid

[Pete Dowson]

I have install the 3.47 release and re-calibrated the flight controls. I am having problems with the elevator trim being extremely sensitive. When I go to Joysticks page 6/Elevator trim and click "Reset" I get -16380 Min, -512/+512 center, and 16380 Max. When I click on "Set", on each the value goes to 0. I noticed that on my FS Joystick assignments that there is no trim axis assigned.

If you have not assigned a trim axis in FS then there's no point in trying to use FSUIPC to calibrate it!

What are you using for trim? If it's a button or lever you are using then the trim is an ordinary increment/decrement system in FS, the same as pressing the "Home" and "End" keys on the keyboard. They accelerate automatically if held.

I have tried to follow your instructions very closely, but I can't seem to find a way to reduce this sensitivity.

What instructions? There is no sensitivity adjustment in FSUIPC. If you have axes assigned in FS you can reduce sensitivity there. But it sounds like you aren't even using a trim axis.

Regards,

Pete

[Tailskid]

First of all Pete, I mentioned that I had followed all of your instructions meaning the FSUIPC manual that came with 3.47 Just to let you know that I had tried to do the thing right. Secondly, as far as I know there never has been an axis assigned to the trim, but it has always worked pretty much as it should until I installed the latest release of FSUIPC. For trim control I am using the rocker switch on top of the CH yoke. So I will find out what axis to assign to the elevator trim, and see if I can work it out from there. Thanks for your help. Tailskid

[Pete Dowson]

as far as I know there never has been an axis assigned to the trim, but it has always worked pretty much as it should until I installed the latest release of FSUIPC. For trim control I am using the rocker switch on top of the CH yoke. So I will find out what axis to assign to the elevator trim

I doubt that you have a spare axis to assign this, and really there is no point -- a rocker switch is as good and more realistic.

The rocker control will simply be operating the normal trim up and trim down controls in FS. These won't be any point at all in attempting to use FSUIPC's elevator trim axis calibration in that case, none at all -- as you found out.

There's no adjustment available in FS for the trim up and down controls, so no way really possible for a mere update to an FSUIPC version to change that. Try using the "home" and "end" keys on the keyboard and checking the trim action those provide. If that's comparable to the rocker on your yoke then that's correct.

The only other possibility I can think of is that you've programmed the trim buttons in FSUIPC's buttons page as well as in the FS Options-Controls-Assignments dialogue, and so have a double action, which would certainly make it operate faster. You should only assign functions to switches and buttons in one place or the other, not both.

Regards,

Pete