FCS Trimming

Don't know if its me but is the Stick trimming supposed to act as if it barely works. If I'm trying to trim laterally its almost non existant, seems it takes quite a while to trim in any direction

Short answer. Jet auto trims for 1g flight. Manual trim is mostly effective during PA mode.

I find this annoying when my load is asymmetrical. My usual use of trimming involves counting the number of clicks to balance it out.

With the Hornet its press and hold until it balances out... kinda tough to pinpoint that sweet spot.

Oh I know the feelings on trimming, I usually fly a STD ship loadout, lord knows I've loaded it enough times but 5/7 Fuel, Sta.1 A9, FLIR(When available) Or my ALERT loadout. For my STD it's about 6 degrees unloaded wing down

Short answer. Jet auto trims for 1g flight. Manual trim is mostly effective during PA mode.

Noob here. What is PA mode?

"Power Approach"

This looks interesting….https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1997-3667

Oh I know the feelings on trimming, I usually fly a STD ship loadout, lord knows I've loaded it enough times but 5/7 Fuel, Sta.1 A9, FLIR(When available) Or my ALERT loadout. For my STD it's about 6 degrees unloaded wing down

What does the ALERT loadout look like?

Short answer. Jet auto trims for 1g flight. Manual trim is mostly effective during PA mode.

I find this annoying when my load is asymmetrical. My usual use of trimming involves counting the number of clicks to balance it out.

 

With the Hornet its press and hold until it balances out... kinda tough to pinpoint that sweet spot.

This makes me wonder whether the trim logic should also automatically trim out asymmetric loads.

This makes me wonder whether the trim logic should also automatically trim out asymmetric loads.

Not necessarily. In the F-16 it's not done, for example.

Regards