The Honeycomb Bravo trim wheel, out of the box is basically useless.
I can spin it like a bicycle wheel and not much happens.
Is there a fix ?
Cheers my friend.
Thanks Bertus, I had seen that, but it looks like a complicated exercise.
Yes, that’s like 3 applications that you need to install and configure. I find it easier and with a lot less overhead when it’s done using simconnect to turn a regular up/down trim into an axis even with autopilot sync.
I find the SLOWER I move mine, you get more reliable trim out of it.
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It’s a button press, not an axis. Make sure you get every button press you can by moving the wheel slowly.
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Hi, I used to think the same, that the wheel is useless. Also I’m on XBox so I can’t use the fix that Mark recommends in this video.
But after a lot of trying and experimenting I think different now.
For big changes in trim I use the electric trim switch on the yoke (Bonanza V35B) for small changes the trim wheel. The key here is to turn it slowly. First very small changes will happen but then the steps will become bigger. You can even achieve big changes with the wheel but the trim switch is more practical for these.
So all in all I’m now happy with how the trim wheel works.
Regards, Frank
You can turn button presses into a virtual axis. Works well.
This problem seems to be accepted by owners of the Bravo, but I have found that the Carenado C182 RG II can use the trim wheel as designed. I realize that not everyone has the 182, but it is a great aircraft (reminds me of early days of MSFS) and I just discovered (after a long time of just not using the wheel) that it actually works. This leads me to believe that all the default aircraft in the sim can be programed to use it as well. If there is a moderator still watching this post, please bring it to the attention of whoever is responsible for this as many of us have invested a lot of money to have a component that can work! Please don’t let them break the 182 while “fixing” the others! Thanks.
At first I used vJoy and another software product I can’t recall to do exactly that. I know it wasn’t Joystick Gremlin, but that would work.
Then I bought into the SPADiverse and found it easy to increment and decrement the Elevator_Trim_Position, which is in radians. For most planes +0.003 to +0.005 and -0.003 to -0.005 works well. Very smooth and linear response.
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