When I fly the Cessna 172 G1000, on Xbox and use the joypad rather than my Hotas, the trimming wheel seems to exhibit odd behaviour.
I try not to pause the game when flying in order to use in cockpit controls as it loses the immersion a little. So I click the left controller so I can view around the cockpit (quite a chance by now the plane is choosing its own precarious trajectory) and click on the trim wheel. As soon as I try to adjust a few degrees, the trim wheel will shoot to a massive positive position causing the plane to pitch up to the extreme, followed by a stall/dive. When in that state you canât even control the plane as you are interacting with the trim wheel.
Other than selecting autopilot attitude/alt hold am I doing something wrong?
With the Hotas stick/throttle I tend to quickly use the mouse, from memory I donât think it behaves like this?
If you donât get a response to this issue (I assume you still have this problem?) then Iâll try it tomorrow and let you know what I find. I too am on Xbox and play with an Xbox controller.
I tried again today, had the 172 in reasonably stable state then changed the view using the stick down to look at the trim wheel. As soon as I clicked it it changed from around 0 - 3° to about 28°, sending the plane in an abrupt climb/stall.
No idea why it suddenly changes to max of itâs range.
I have a âfixâ which was I read the Xbox controller commands within the game and saw you can change the trim wheel state with the shoulder right button held + up or down on the right joystick (which I assume everyone but me knew!)
This adjusts the trim in slow proportionate steps, which is kind of what you want. Happy now.
In fact Iâm finding the joypad more versatile than joystick and throttle which I wasnât expecting, especially given the hotas joystickâs âbinaryâ view changes rather the smooth view control of the Xbox controller.
The process by which you describe is the only way I have ever trimmed all aircraft. As a âTV living room sitting on the opposite side of the roomâ flyer I didnât want cables across the floor hence the Xbox controller suits me perfectly. Using the Bumper and trim up and down moves in small steps. In case you didnât know, if you hold it instead of clicking it it goes up or down much quicker.
I can understand you might feel this detracts from a more real life interaction with the trimming compared with clicking on the trim function in the cockpit itself.
Iâll still test it out and report back though if I experience the same issue.
So I just tried this. Apart from the Xbox freezing and needing a restart which was odd I was able to trim the aircraft but up and down from the cockpit trim control in steps of 0.1 without issue. Youâll notice in external view it only shows whole numbers I.e. 1.0, 2.0 etc.
I should add I used the controller to highlight and then click on the trim adjustment (left thumbstick click action) as opposed to trying an external mouse. I imagine it wouldnât behave any differently however.
Center the trim wheel before take off.
It seems to remember the last setting used in previous flight.
Center trim to 0 degrees then once airborne adjust as required.
Works for me on controller or on velocity one but with V1 you have to Center in the calibration menu.
Cheers for the posts above. Iâve had a hit and miss set of results to replicating what I posted. Now I know the joypad control for slow adjustments Iâm not too bothered but I wonder what you think of the behaviour in the attached video clip. I couldnât get it to do this every time, unsure whether itâs me or an intermittent bug. I have a video but limited by the 5mb upload limit (itâs 28mb and Iâve shaved a fair few frames off