I’ve found it’s important to watch the dot after you move the joystick around, then suddenly release it. My Hotas 4 literally vibrated until I manually damped the joystick’s motion. Watch that vibration if you have it, and use that to help you with the size of the dead zone you set. I’ve seen a lot of posts on dead zone and autopilot, and none of it worked for me until I saw that my joystick was “twitching” outside the dead zones I had set!