Rick50 Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Recently I saw a recommendation for helicopter sims that a very light or even removed spring makes it easier to fly a heli in a sim with better precision. I have a spare T.16000m stick, and I wonder if I can remove the stiff spring, but wonder if it won't work properly anymore, or if it would be fine??? I suspect this won't work, but hope I'm wrong. What do you think??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Jockey Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 I have that model and if you remove the spring I "suspect" that... the stick will tip forward or to some corner. So I would advise against it. Hangar FC3 | F-14A/B | F-16C | F/A-18C | MiG-21bis | Mirage 2000C ... ... JA 37 | Kfir | MiG-23 | Mirage IIIE Mi-8 MTV2 system i7-4790 K , 16 GB DDR3 , GTX 1660 Ti 6GB , Samsung 860 QVO 1TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sokol1_br Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 An option is remove the spring and put - externally, a rubber boot, this keep grip more or less centralized. For example, this with metal ball gimbal don't use spring, just the boot. http://forum.il2sturmovik.ru/uploads/monthly_08_2015/post-683-0-56808800-1439970591.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick50 Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 I have that model and if you remove the spring I "suspect" that... the stick will tip forward or to some corner. So I would advise against it. Actually that's the idea... but I wonder if without the spring, will the stick still be held in place? Will the sensors and commands still work? I might use some R/C car dampners on the stick instead of the spring, but either way it would feel more like a helicopter cyclic, as the further you move it, you don't get increasing resistance that you do on fixed wing a/c. I know some other sim heli pilots have removed springs from their joysticks for this reason, for more precise control of their helis, but I don't know if anyone's ever done it in the TM T.16000M yet, not even sure it's doable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick50 Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 An option is remove the spring and put - externally, a rubber boot, this keep grip more or less centralized. For example, this with metal ball gimbal don't use spring, just the boot. http://forum.il2sturmovik.ru/uploads/monthly_08_2015/post-683-0-56808800-1439970591.jpg Interesting... and it seems he added a few of his own buttons too! So he did remove the spring altogether then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sokol1_br Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 More pictures of this "springless" T.16000M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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