I find trimming any aircraft in MSFS almost impossible, i find i end up flying with the trim wheel rather than the yoke! Maybe there’s an art to it but i find trimming for level flight not easy without constant adjustment. Maybe thats realistic or is MSFS over sensitive to trim, i dunno i’m not a pilot. I tend toi use the AP as I don’t find it very fun having to constantly move the trim wheel to correct my plane as it follows cyclic 1000 +/- climbs
That’s odd. I honestly don’t have much issue with it. I’ll hold the plane level with the yoke, wait for the speed to stabilize, and then trim to remove any yoke input.
Of course the plane is unlikely to stay perfectly level, but it shouldn’t dive or climb drastically unless you hit some sort of air thermal (you can tell when that happens because the pitch doesn’t change much, yet the airplane suddenly climbs or descends).
If a plane is trimmed and thrust set for say 140kts level flight, then if it starts to descend, as the speed picks up it will correct itself. Generally speaking, in most planes, in weather that’s not too crazy, I can usually keep most aircraft within 100ft of my target altitude without too many constant trim adjustments. The Comanche is probably the easiest.
However, this goes out the window with the Kodiak. That plane just like to go into steep dives or climbs by itself. It doesn’t adhere to the laws of physics! I’m sure that’s not the case in the real one though 
It takes precision and “small frequent micro adjustments” that become 2nd nature with practice, also depends on what hardware and aircraft you are using.
I have my PPL and its so cool how a well trimmed airplane can stay nailed to its altitude and heading (assuming no crazy winds of course).
I find it impossible to replicate this trim behavior in the game and so very reluctantly I have to engage the AP even on the small GA planes I fly like NXCub.
But I make sure to disengage it 7nm from landing and also I hand fly up to cruise alt before turning it on.
Sidenote:
Airliner pilot friends of mine from across the world love to hand-fly their heavies. Reliance on automatics has weakened their stick and rudder skills they said. Specially my Airbus pilot friends (who have all purchased LSAs or rent an old C-172 to get their “pure flying” fix).
- If you are not on Auto Pilot and trying to trim, turn off Auto Trim in the Assistance Options. Otherwise, use Auto Trim when not in AP.
- The keyboard keys for trim add too much trim for each key depress.
You can never reach a stable trim, level flight. - I have a flight stick that has an encoder wheel that works perfectly for elevator trim up and down. VKB Gladiator NXT EVO
The encoder moves the trim tabs with very small increments.
These are good and interesting tips, thanks!
I wonder if it will be possible to tie the mouse scroll wheel to the trim.
I tried it.
Seems to work okay.
But, you need to remove the Cockpit and External View Zoom bindings
from the mouse wheel.
I have mine above set opposite of what I would want.
As in, roll the mouse wheel forward would point the nose down.
Also, if you display the Heads Up display, it will show the trim percentage.
Set the trim to 0 % and then set your throttle for level flight.
Then adjust the trim.
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I just got home and will try those settings. Thanks very much for testing it and also the reminder to disable the view bindings!
If theres another thing FS24 should copy from X-Plane 12 its the ability to display datarefs in corner so we can see what control surfaces, engines and other systems are doing.
