Does anyone know how to disable the automatic stability feature of the F-18 on takeoff and landing? It takes control of the aircraft making it difficult to fly, even occasionally causing loss of control. Its really annoying. I want to fly it myself.
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Other than changing flaps from auto to full down for landing, no. You are supposed to fly and land the F-18 stabilized until touchdown, like a carrier landing, maybe a little faster with a shallower AoA. Some pilots flare anyway, better for your back and tires.
Problem I’ve had is with rolling out on a base to final and it will keep rolling beyond the point where I try to recenter the stick. This is not like a stall where you lose aerodynamic control authority, this is the aircraft saying, “OK, were rolling left? Lets just keep going. What? you want to roll out to wings level? NO. Were going all the way up side down.” Its fighting me for control of the aircraft and I don’t want that.
I don’t have that, it is extremely precise and responsive. Only issue i have is the tendency to drop a wing upon touchdown. Maybe your controls are fading, either your joystick or controller. A higher deadzone setting may work.
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I do, and it’s really annoying. The plane quickly rolls and spins all the way upside down, first left then right after I try to correct it. It might have something to do with the joystick sensitivity being extreme compared to other planes.
You should do minimal movements. More like applying slight pressure, instead of moving the stick. Having a proper stick helps. If you don’t, lower the sensitivity.
I have a Gladiator NXT and it feels great. As does any other plane. The feel and precision of that stick is fantastic.
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I would if I could save different sensitivity settings per plane, but I guess only the users of other flight simulators can get that functionality…
Edit - It looks like the controls preset manager might be saving the sensitivity settings, so I’ll try to use that as a workaround.
Also make sure you are not fighting an active autopilot. FPAH and HDG do not deactivate by taking over the controls.
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I reduced sensitivity by 50% and the plane still rolls itself upside down during approach. I never activated any autopilot. I only encountered this problem in free flight, not the carrier landing challenge (maybe because in the carrier landing challenge I am already approaching straight in).
Do you have your flight model set to Modern?
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I do, but the plane feels like it’s flying under the legacy flight model at times. Teetering center of gravity issues upon takeoff for example (if I try to level off instead of climb).
I’ll try a few things next chance I get, my best guess though is the jet is being in too low an energy state when making the turn on approach.
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It’s definitely related to speed/energy (and totally unrealistic to start doing quick aileron rolls on approach), but I am always well above stall speed (occurs with flaps on full or auto, haven’t tried half).
There is some sensitivity bug because when moving my joystick left or right in the sensitivity config page, the white dot will fall completely off the line, which should be impossible (it occurs near the deadzone boundary). However that bug does not cause any trouble with any other planes. Perhaps I should try removing the deadzones.
I still don’t understand why I cannot reproduce this aileron rolling behavior in the carrier landing challenge. I see that the AI checklist assist is enabled on the landing challenge, but in free flight mode I am doing everything manually. What am I missing?
I guess you’ve checked your joystick calibration already. You have to monitor the stability for a while making small movements just to check whether there are spikes or not. If it does spike strange things happen. A brief full impulse to either side means full aileron deflection for a tenth of a second, hardly noticable in a GA aircraft but sensitive aircraft such as the F-18 is a different story. This should also happen in the landing challenge though, kinda odd.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks so 
Thanks for all the advice everybody 
My stick and curves are fine. I’m just referring to what appears to be some automated stability augmentation from the jet itself. I can see it working, and that wouldn’t be an issue but for the times it misbehaves.
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Is this what you’re seeing? or is more aggressive than this?
This I would expect from an Airbus, but not from a Boeing 
I’m having far less trouble after I re-adjusted my joystick settings, but I still worry that the plane is going to go haywire again at some point.
problem in autotrim that stay active at critical aoa, this can confuse and need to be careful with low speed low alt. another problem is auto flaps opposite problem in f-35 there autoflaps ignore aoa and all about speed. true somewhere between. both situation need some tricks that’s mean no tricks and do only standard approach, that for fighter pilot about unacceptable(do everything right like mom said).