Originally posted by ZXMAW:
Blue Mako and Majic, I totaly disagree with you both. Not the part where you say it works fine for you but the part where you say in different word, get used to it. Some people like myself when I first started, had extream nose bounce. The only thing that helped me was to move the deadband and damping (mostly the damping up).
Feel free to disagree.
To me, having to turn the deadband and damping up to control nose bounce indicates that you were having trouble with over controlling: chasing the nose movement with your stick ---> nose bouncing. This is a real life phenomena called Pilot Induced Oscillation, as the aircraft starts responding to your input you are already applying more control (or applying too much control in the first place) that leads to overshooting the desired position and then you repeat it in the other direction too(Good to see AH is accurate enough to give this effect!). Turning up your deadband and damping makes your control of the aircraft easier but it also makes the aircraft respond like a wet sponge. That's why I recommended not to up these settings too much. Also, constantly changing your settings means you are having to relearn how to handle your controls all the time, IMO not a good thing.
Anyway, as Lephturn said, you need to find a balance between getting the most responsive setup and playability. I was fortunate that it came fairly quickly for me in the manner I described. Hopefully everyone else can find their ideal setup too. Good idea to start this thread, it's a good discussion.
[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Blue Mako ]
