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[FESS67]

Nope, roll is off for me.

Mainly because it was totally disorientating and I was getting angles very wrong.

My tracker pretty much emulates my hat switches.  It is familiar and safe and works for me  The only thing I miss is being able to sit up and down in the seat but as explained above that was too much of a problem to keep

[-ammo-]

When paused, you can move your view up, down, whatever and even use F10 to set it.

[FESS67]

so I can pause Trackir, use the normal key commands to change, press F10 and then re-enable Trackir?

[-ammo-]

Yep

[-ammo-]

When I am an opponents 6, I center, pause, and shoot.  If I lose their 6, I enable, center again and repeat the process.  I have both buttons mapped to a thumb hat and it is now second nature and very effective.

[FESS67]

yeah I am always centering - just did not think I could adjust and F10 on the fly.  Thanks for that

[Threeup]

I don't get how anyone can use Trackir in a fight. I'll use it en route but then pause and centre until kill or get killed.

As I'm left handed that's the joystick hand. When Trackir is off (during fight), I use a game pad in the right hand foe altering views. Left side controls up and down and sideways views, the other pitch and yaw views.

There is no gunsight, just a permanent dot on the screen.

Sometimes it even works and I get a kill. Only sometimes though.

[Skyyr]

I think most people install TrackIR and want to to be instantly just as successful as they were before using TrackIR - that's just simply not the case. TrackIR will make things better for you, but you have to understand that there's a relearning period where you'll temporarily get worse. This is normal, and if you stick with it, you'll learn it and come out even better than before... but you have to stick with it. Doing things such as turning off axes, etc. only prolongs the learning period.

Just my .02

(Again, yes, I have all axes turned on)

[FLOOB]

I have roll enabled. I have a pretty good yaw deadband that helps a lot.

[Wiley]

It fascinates me how much differently people do things with head tracking.  I have all axes enabled although to be honest the way my setup is I pretty much never use the Y axis, and may disable it to see if it gets rid of the behaviours listed above.

I also like having roll on as a 1:1 line because my head naturally wants to tilt with the horizon and I find it helps me keep my orientation better, not worse.

I find my deadband eliminates the need to pause trackIR for gunnery, much like Floob's curves.  Just seems more natural to me.

Wiley.

[Randy1]

From the replies I will put the "Y" back in and give it a go one more time.

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From the replies I will put the "Y" back in and give it a go one more time.

Randy, I'll send you  copy of my profile if you would like.  I don't have the problems mentioned

[Drano]

The beauty of TIR is it's totally tweakable. You can turn all the axii on if you want and just tweak the curve(s) for each separately as they suit you. If you're having trouble with roll messing you up, try knocking the curve down a bit. FYI I have them all turned on.

As others have suggested I've also been known to turn it off as I line up for a shot (that I'll probably miss anyway--some things never change ). I also am known to revert back to using hat switch views in a fight. Old habits die hard. 15+ year old habits die harder.

[BowHTR]

When I am an opponents 6, I center, pause, and shoot.  If I lose their 6, I enable, center again and repeat the process.  I have both buttons mapped to a thumb hat and it is now second nature and very effective.

I do the same thing, except, instead of centering and pausing, i have a button that is mapped to my joystick that it look forward in the AH joystick mapping. This will center your head position to your gunsight. So essentially, Press the button make the shot, then release the button and Track IR is back to normal. I was doing the same thing as you, but found this way was quicker for me and got rid of the extra steps.

[FLOOB]

Since I got trackir I use my hat switch for auto level, auto speed, toggle combat trim and clipboard.