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dok_rp

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  1. I would also like to see how the bungee cords are attached to the joystick pedestal. :smartass:
  2. No matter what kind of setting I tried with the analog axis for the Shkval, TGP or Maverick, it always felt too sensitive or too unresponsive. I gave up and decided to learn how to use TARGET. With TARGET I assign the axis as buttons in the controller. Works wonders. :thumbup:
  3. I can't stress enough how much different the Warthog behaves when extended. You will love it. The WWII birds and the helicopters are a marvel to fly. If you want to build the little extension cable yourself, here's what you should do: It took me about 30 minutes to build my cable and I got it right the first time. I have absolutely no electronics skills nor any advanced knowledge of electricity. Therefore, it's very much doable. After splitting the cable, I reconnected the little wires from the two halves using black insulating tape. You can also solder them if you know how to. I decided to start with 16.5 cm and I am very happy with it. I might try building a little bit longer one after I get used to this one. Maybe 20 or 25cm. If you decide to do it, you will love it. :thumbup: WOW. 18 inches? Did you also install the spring mod to compensate for the lack of return-to-center force or you got used to flying it like that? I am also interested in building a longer one after I get used to the shorter one. Thanks for any information. :thumbup: Thanks Rogue Trooper. It was very fun building the extension and the little stand. Absolutely agree with you. It's shockingly different. :pilotfly:
  4. This is the very first thing I noticed. It actually looks like you are flying an aircraft and not playing a video game. Flying the WWII birds now is completely different. The UH1, Black Shark and Mi8 are also amazingly better to the point that the Ka-50 even seems a little "arcadie" when compared to the way it was before with the joystick on the table. The Warthog is definitely a joystick that was made to be used with and extension. You were right!!! :thumbup: I positioned the stick so that at its maximum forward deflection it would clear the table edge by about 2cm. Therefore, it doesn't get in the way at all and I can enjoy the full deflection of the stick. If you have a Warthog, please build your extension. It's not very hard at all and the difference is astronomical!!! :thumbup:
  5. Hello guys, A few days ago I posted a message in the K-4 forum describing my inability to hold the aircraft level with 1.4 ata and full nose down trim. I later discovered the trim "problem" was actually my problem, because the aircraft was simply not designed to be operated at max power and still have enough nose down trim. I set it down to cruise @1.35 ata and trim was plenty. However, my real problem was the need of having to hold the Warthog stick deflected to the front-left at speeds over 450km/h. Since I had to use a curve of about 30 in the X and Y axis to compensate for the high sensitivity and lack of gradient tension in the Warthog as well as for the new simulated central control stiffness added by Yo-Yo which further numbed the controllers at their central position, I got pretty miserable while flying this particular aircraft. (Now, after flying with the extension, I like this added control stiffness simulation very much :thumbup:) A lot of people chipped in the discussion and some gave quite valuable advice in the sense that I could be using the controllers in a less than adequate form, which, for the Warthog, translates into "flying with it sitting at your desk and without an extension". Since purchasing one would not be possible for their high cost, I got some pretty interesting ideas and assistance from ManOWar, ElGringo, Echo38 and then decided to build it myself. It worked pretty good. I built a 16.5cm extension and also constructed a little stand out of plywood for the joystick. All in all I spent very little money, had a lot of fun building the extension and the stand and now everything works the very way it should've always had. I am still getting used to the "new" stick, but the WWII fighters are immensely easier to control. I am absolutely sure I should have build this mod 2 years ago when I bought the stick. Now I do agree that any form of extension is pretty much mandatory for the Warthog. Thanks for everyone that helped. :smartass: :thumbup: :pilotfly:
  6. Thanks for everything, ManOWar. I will get the garden hose connector next week. It's already on its way. As soon as I have all the parts I will post again. :thumbup: Valeu Sokol!!! Como sempre ajudando muita gente!!! :thumbup::smartass:
  7. Hello Ala13, You inspired me to try and build my own extension out of your idea with the PVC pipes. I bought the Gardena hose adapter from Amazon and it'll be about 2 weeks until I get it here in Brazil. I have a few questions though. Hope you could help. =) 1) If I understood correctly (my Spanish is not that good :smartass:) you heated up a 40mm sleeve and forced it so it would mold itself around the Gardena connector. Is that right? 2) Then you used a 40mm ==> 32mm reducer and from there on added two 45º elbows. 3) The top elbow was threaded. Did the thread from the PVC elbow adapt perfectly in the female joystick base? Did you have to make any extra adjustments? 4) Does the Gardena hose adapter fits perfectly in the joystick base? Is it necessary to make and extra refinement in the piece? Thank you so much for your ideas. :smartass:
  8. Thank you very much for the kind response Echo38. I am going to give it a try. You were very informative and elucidative. I will start doing just that. I will start lowering the response curves in all modules and will try getting accustomed to the new response I will have. Let's see how that plays out. If not conclusive to my problems, it will most definitely be a healthy staring point. Thanks. =)
  9. You should read my post again. Sorry, but you clearly did not understand what the problem I was citing was. You took one sentence out of a whole body of text and created your own context for it. I'd dream of doing that ElGringo. Those extensions you purchase from a user here on the forum look great. I think Mat Wagner uses one of them too. However, I would also have to adapt my chair (or purchase another one) and my space here is very limited. Until I have an office for my computer exclusively that won't be possible. Hello Echo38, I have tried that many times. However the position I have to use the Warthog at makes fine tuning my movements when using no response curves at all very difficult. Flying the UH-1, for example, is an absolute chore when using no curves at all. The Warthog is simply too stiff (and I have replaced the factory lube for a much better one) for me to fine-control it while the joystick base is sitting at my waist line (this is as low as my desk will allow it to be). However if I add around a curve of 30, flying the UH-1 becomes an absolute pleasure. The same goes for older aircraft such as the P-51 and D-9. I am going to play around again with 1.35 ata and 2500 rpm. I'll post the results here as well. Thanks for everything, guys. =)
  10. Thank you very much for the response guys, The problem, Flagrum is that the response curve I have to set on my controller adds up with the stiffness simulation, which is yet another "response curve" and both added together make the center portion of the joystick extremely numb at speeds over 450km/h. Added to that is the "lack" of enough nose down trim at speeds over 450km/h which forces you to compensate by pushing the stick forward-left. The real stick deflection needed to keep the aircraft flying level at these conditions is quite small. I would say about 5-8º forward-left stick deflection. However, since the fore-mentioned response curves get added up, that results in a huge needed joystick deflection to counter the nose up tendency. Another point is that the Warthog is a pretty stiff joystick as it is and keeping it deflected for more than a few minutes at the same position starts to get painful pretty quickly. I also have very little space in the room where I fly and so the joystick is positioned in an unfavorable position over my desk, which makes it even worse. Summing up: 1) Simulated stiffness response curve + Necessary setup response curve = Excessive numbness at the center joystick area and... 2) Excessive numbness at the joystick center area + "lack" of trim for speeds over 450km/h + natural stiffness of the warthog = Painful flying. Hello Sporg, I also tried setting the response curve to "zero" and test it out. Even though the needed deflection to keep the aircraft flying level due to the "lack" of trim is greatly reduced, I find the warthog way too sensitive when dogfighting at lower speeds when the simulated "stiffness" goes away. At speeds under 300km/h, almost all simulated stiffness will disappear and I am going to be left with the full stick travel at its maximum sensitivity. At these conditions, dogfighting becomes very difficult. What I don't like about this simulated stiffness system is that for our actual home joystick systems there is no way to tell what's really happening, whereas a real pilot would immediately notice what is going on. Therefore we must get accustomed to several different response curves since we don't know exactly what are the limitations imposed on our joysticks. While going through the 27 pages and roughly 250 replies in the Bf-109 Trim thread I came across this post from the developer: I guess the Microsoft Force feedback joystick is what they had in mind when developing such feature. It's probably much more intuitive to fly using one than using a stiff warthog sitting at your desk. Thanks for pointing that out Otto. It took me about 40 minutes to read the whole thing, but I'll have to come back to it to further digest it.
  11. Hello guys, I am having a pain flying the K-4. Even with maximum nose down trim and the power setting at 1.4 ata the aircraft still wants to climb. To counter that I need to apply about 50% forward-left deflection on my joystick to keep it flying level. It's an absolute pain. This is exactly the deflection I need to apply to keep it level: After a few hours playing around with the controllers I have isolated one possible "culprit". I use the HOTAS Warthog which is a very sensitive joystick and I find it almost impossible to control any of the aircraft in the game without having a response curve of about 34 set in game, like such: Without this setting all aircraft are extremely sensitive and almost impossible to control for me. Some time ago a "stiffness" simulation was added to the game and the K-4 was one of the aircraft presented with such feature. Although I believe it adds to realism it also makes our lives extremely difficult because such "stiffness" adds to the response curve around the center position making the aircraft extremely numb and unresponsive to control. Added to this problem is the fact that the K-4 even with maximum nose down trim still wants to nose up and roll right; movements which must be countered with forward-left stick positioning. However, with such numbing at the center stick position I have to move the stick about half its course to keep the aircraft flying level. Doing that for more than a few minutes is actually painful. Therefore I have a few questions: 1) Is the ineffectiveness of the trim in the K-4 an inherent problem with this particular aircraft? A game bug? An intentional feature? Or maybe none of the above? As a side note I would like to say that this is the only aircraft I have problems with; and I have every single module from DCS. Even the D-9 which also has this stiffness simulation to the ailerons does not give such a headache to keep it flying level. 2) Would it be possible to turn this "stiffening" feature off? The P-51 doesn't have it and it's a marvel to fly. Although having an excessively sensitive engine, it's great to fly. Thanks for any help.
  12. Thanks for sharing the video. Very nice. Are you using any mods to enhance visuals? I ask that because your game seems to much clearer and crispier than mine. I have nowhere the clarity and quality you have. :pilotfly:
  13. Just tested again forcing the negative G in the climb with the AB on and indeed it does flameout within a second. Thank you so much for the assistance. I loved the "stroke" explanation. hahahaha... Thanks. Gotta stay away from negative G's with that bird. Dangerous combination. :thumbup: :pilotfly:
  14. Hello guys, I am getting frequent engine flameouts whenever I climb at steep angles and high speeds. For example, in a climb @45º and 1300km/h from sea level, I'll almost always get a flameout at around 8km of altitude. Another extremely strange thing is that I tried to avoid the flameout by immediately pushing forward on the stick to descend and generated over -2G. The pilot blacked out and never returned. It was a straight plunge from 8km to the ground. Could the pilot have died from the negative G's? Is the engine of the Su-27 so fantastically prone to flameouts at steep climbs? I tested in the F-15 and could not even come close to a flamout under the same conditions. Thanks for any feedback. :)
  15. Just use the TARGET software supplied by Thrustmaster. It's incredibly easy. =)
  16. It would be awesome. Along with the long-awaited Overheating in the UH1. :D
  17. I also had this happen to me today. I'm trying to reproduce it. I was removing and adding helicopter groups for me to test. At a certain time, I added a Ka-50 to the US side, didn't save the changes in the mission and started it up. When I turned on the Shkval, it was slewing all over the place. Haven't been able to reproduce it since then. :(
  18. I've always wondered the same. I do believe these missiles fly lead pursuit trajectories and not true or lag pursuit, is it not? However, in the video, it seems the missile is losing-reacquiring lock on the target. Thus, the "erratic" trajectory? :)
  19. I had never flown the Fw190D9 in IL2. However, I was well aware of the debate (war at times?) regarding "the bar". After flying the FW190 a few times and at occasions having a hard time getting a better guns solution due to "the bar" obscuring the lower third of the reticule, I now give full credit to this discussion. To me, it just looks like a quite poor workaround for the thick frontal cockpit glass refraction. Since this seems like a half-baked feature, wouldn't it be better off removed entirely? Just my opinion. :)
  20. I have the Warthog and the Saitek Pro Flight pedals along with TrackIR. I like this combo a lot. I've already owned the X52 for over two years. I prefer the Thrustmaster joystick.
  21. That second strafe was scary as hell. I thought you were done for when I saw it. :) Nice video. I believe you have TrackIR, but in the cockpit shots when the view was stationary (that was for an added dramatic feeling, I suppose), I found myself moving my head to get a better view of the target. :)
  22. Day 01 purchase right here. :)
  23. Just saw the Sabre video. That's not a Sabre!!! That's an X-Wing disguised as a Korean-era fighter!!! :surprise: That guy pulled a 12G loop at 900+km/h that an RedBull Racing Su-31 would have difficulty performing at 200km/h!!! This game is definitely funny!!! :)
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