Not sure if I’m doing something wrong, the plane is just all over the place on takeoff and landing. This can be with calm (or calm-ish) winds, mostly headwind, or a crosswind. Using honeycomb alpha & bravo, and logitech rudder pedals. I do try to do very minimal inputs on takeoff, but the thing seems to inevitably veer off to the side of the runway. Thoughts? Things to look at or try? Settings?
I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. I’m having the same issue, specifically in the CJ4. I’m using 2024.
When you reach rotation speed, the crosswind kicks in and sends you veering off the runway.
This streamer experiences the same issue at takeoff
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I just did a flight in 2024 in the CJ4 and had no issues tracking the centerline with a 15 knot direct crosswind while on the runway and in the air. Ensure that what you have bound to the pedals is “Rudder Axis”. You may need to adjust the sensitivity. Lastly ensure you’re applying a proper crosswind takeoff technique.
Yeah, very much like that. I feel that if real CJ4s behaved that way then no one would ever actually fly them.
What do you suggest for crosswind takeoffs?
I’ll confirm that the pedals are bound rudder axis but I’m 99% certain it is. I have dialed back the sensitivity a bit, and it helped some but not always.
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My controls are set correctly. I performed the same test as you did with a 15kt crosswind and it worked fine, no problems. However, when I attempt a crosswind takeoff or landing in live weather, then I seem to have the problem. Perhaps this is the real issue. Can you please try a crosswind takeoff in live weather?
Do you have a video of the issue you’re describing? In a 15knt crosswind I expect to be pushed around a bit. And since we don’t have the “seat of the pants” feel or the same depth perception as we would irl it’s very easy to over or under compensate with control inputs.
Edit: I just saw the video above with the streamers takeoff. If that’s what you’re experiencing then yea that’s not right.
What happens is that I’m compensating for the crosswind using both the yoke and the rudder. The plane tracks straight down the runway but as the plane reaches v1 (or around v1), the plane will veer suddenly to the left or right and full rudder has nearly no effect. Really frustrating.
I have no idea why this is happening to you. Maybe it’s some assistance setting. I have all of this turned off.
Not sure if that’s the working title cj4 (considering the mess with 2020 and 2024 porting).
Notwithstanding the Auto Pilot (could never seem to have it hold altitude/ eg hand flying it), I can’t say I’ve had any issues with flying it between KPVD and CYUL.
Off topic but this is working just fine. At least in free flight. I’ve heard of all kinds of funky stuff happening in career mode.
Don’t get me started on career mode (IRL, I’m working on my PPL) and the approach that the devs had about international airports just felt shortsighted (eg, yeh, some of the towered airports in New England might have a part 141 school, but, we would have you start at an untowered airfield).
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Thank you for trying
I’m having the same issue.. I’ve checked my rudder settings and it is not duplicated. I seems to be a bug.
I’ve also noticed this with the CJ4. I mostly fly the A20N and A330 with the occasional jaunt in the C152 or C172. No issues in any of them but the CJ4 is absolutely wild when you hit Vr. In the early days of FS24, the airliners weren’t working on Xbox so I gave the CJ4 a go and enjoyed learning it but all of my takeoffs looked like that YouTube video above
It’s odd how I can’t replicate this issue. Last night someone else made a post about this in SU2 Beta General Feedback.
EDIT: I again just tried it and didn’t have issues.
It’s really not particularly odd at all. This is a fairly complicated system at this point with quite a number of difficult-to-control variables. As a software and automation engineer, I can’t tell you how many times I have problems that I simply cannot replicate in the lab, even when every variable I can think of is matched. I do quite a lot of debugging in the field.
This issue happens to me (exactly like that video, every time, but only in the CJ4), and it isn’t a rudder sensitivity issue insofar as my rudder sensitivity is fine for every other use-case. It’s fine in the air, it’s fine on ground at lower speeds, only during the takeoff roll do I have this issue. Which is not to say that it couldn’t adjust and therefore potentially improve this issue, but it is to say I think there’s something else going on.
Picking this up again as I find the aircraft behaviour difficult in both the transition phase from ground to flight and flight to ground. Pretty much as described above and not something I experience in other aircraft.
Has anyone tried specific curves for flight controls to try and tune this out?