Big Stick

[Minotaur]

Alright, so I'm not the greatest guy in the box.  The plane flies me, not the other way around.

Blackouts and stalls (ESP low speed stalls pulling lead to shoot) were the norm.  Took me a whole ammo load once to bag a B17.  The B17 was flying straight and level, I just boinked all over the place.  Poor B17 thought I was a cat torturing a sparrow.

I figured something out tonight, not sure if it is a bug or something I am doing wrong.

I was calibrating my joystick six ways till Sunday and sliding them sliders up and down for hours.  NO LUCK.  The Y axis for the joystick would move 50-60% down then WHAM pop to 100% down.  The joystick X axis, rudder and throttle very smooth.  As shown in AH Caibration window.

Seems my joystick had more movement than the game recognized.  So hitting about 50-60% was all the game wanted.  My stick still had 40% more (Some men are built differently than others   ) than AH could handle.

Re-calibration after re-calibration, no luck, including Win98 re-calibrations.

I use ThrustMaster Equipment (FLCS) so the program CTFJ is really a requirement for me.  I clipped the joystick travel to 80% for the Y axis.  WHAT A DIFFERENCE!

No more bouncing around all over the sky.  I can actually control my AoA on landing.  No more wounded duck, 12 bounce landings.  My Spit now does those famed horizontal turns with ease.  First flight after, I got a kill(A kill is a kill, even if it was a P51).  My aspect was about 400% more stable.  NO MORE HARD STALLS or uncontrolable black outs.

Holy Bovine, I might start to like this game in awhile now.  

There are alot of real techy people out there.  Not myself, I am happy if my computer works when I turn it on.  Some one has had to have this happen or knows about it.  

Thanks

Mino

[phaetn]

Glad to hear you got your stick working, your Bovidness.

I too am simply happy when the computer turns on and I don't have to fiddle with anything to make the curséd thing work.

Oh, by the way, keep up those flat turns in the Spitter!  Target drone, here we come!  

Cheers,

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phaetnAT
Aces High Alpha Tester

[Unforgiven]

Mino, That's called stick spike.  It's due to dirty or worn pots in the stick.  You can get some electrical contact cleaner at Radio Shack and squirt into the pots to clean them.  If they are simply old and worn you'll have to replace them.  Standard bet is 100K ohms.   Just make sure thier Linear Taper.

  Hope this helps.

   Unforgiven

[Minotaur]

Thanks Unforgiven;

Would my pots be worn, if the stick functions extremely stable in the Y axis until this precise piont?  Other Sims the stick seems relatively stable.

After clipping it with CTFJ it is also very stable thru the entire Y axis.  But, lets face it the Y axis definately gets used by far the most.

I'll try your advice, thanks again.

Mino

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