"Trim, or not to trim?", that is my question.

[Kweassa]

You can see what that "bastardization" leads to, were it any more influential, in the example of IL-2. As a result, in IL-2 people use trim in all the situations where a real life pilot would not... upto the extreme of the so-called "bat-turn" cheat by using elevator trim mapped on a slider axis.

 As it is, I think that combat trim, while an artificial/unrealistic device, ironically, adds more to realism than the realistic device of manual trim, which somehow promotes unrealistic use/abuse.

ps) going max trim to minimum trim in a split second, even if it is mapped on a slider axis, is impossible in AH, isn't it?

[Karnak]

Kweassa,

Trim can't be mapped to a slider axis in AH.

[ccvi]

The elevator trim wheel on a C152 can't be turned fast, because only a small part of the wheel is outside the cockpit panel.

If trim wheels on WW2 fighters worked similar this could be simulated easily with centering sliders. If the axis is moved away from the center trim is changed, if it moves towards the center trim is frozen where it is. That way analog trimming is possible, but full deflection changes of the trim imposible.

[Vulcan]

Manual trim here.

Trims biggest use in AH is as a fine control. Joysticks do not provide the fine control and feedback of a real aircraft. Trim gives you that very fine light touch you need when your tiffie is pulling through 500 kias in a 45 degree dive.

All my trims are mapped to my HOTAS, its the most important controls to get mapped imho.