To properly tweak your joystick controls, you gotta do something like this:
1) Calibrate the stick, throttle, and rudders in windows control panel.
2) Enter AH setup, and calibrate the controls. Make sure you APPLY the new calibration.
3) Go to the stick adjustment setup in AH, and look at the little box. Wiggle the stick and rudders around and notice what happens to the little cross and lines in the little box window.
4) Adjust the sliders, deadband, and dampening until the little stick and rudder symbols move SMOOTHLY as you move the stick. The deadband should be as small as possible while preventing an position jiggling when you center the controls. Start out with the dampening set to zero, and adjust that LATER based on if you get excessive nose bounce or find yourself rocking the plane back and forth in roll while lining up for shots.
Some people have to adjust the stick scaling to all 100, some use a linear adjustment (10,20,30,40,50...), some use a convex curved adjustment (10,12,15,20,30,50...), some use a concave curve (10,30,45,55,60...), but I had to continually tweak my scaling in a non-linear fashion to make it so the little stick position cross moved smoothly and predictably when I moved the joystick. These settings will be different for each person.
Apply the changes after each scaling slider change. I also recommend starting out with the roll damper set to zero and all roll scaling set to 100.
After you get things set up, fly some offline. Try to line up shots on the drones. If you find yourself overshooting your roll angle, try adjusting the roll dampener. If you find you have pitch nose bounce and are shoving the stick fwd and back to try to line up your shots, adjust the pitch dampener then try again.
If you find that you only have pitch bounce when the stick is near center, adjust the first few scaling sliders down a bit. If you only have bounce near half-stick, adjust the middle sliders a bit. If you are near full aft or fwd stick and have nose bounce, you are not trimming enough
Hope this helps. I spend about 2 hours at the last con adjusting my stick settings before the dueling tournament, and I found that my gunnery improved dramatically after I spent the time making adjustments. When I got home with the sticks I won at the tourny (hehe sorry LLB) I again spent some time adjusting the settings. It's time well spent and your flying and gunnery will definately improve if your stick is set up the way YOU like it.
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eagl <squealing Pigs> BYA
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