Round the world in a X Cub

EricC97123 · September 6, 2020, 10:49pm

South Korea!

EricC97123 · September 6, 2020, 10:59pm

Made it to Busan

Wheeldust329 · September 7, 2020, 2:51am

I do love flying the X-cub. Flew if all over Alaska. I love that it has AP, but for some reason, when out of AP, I have to give my Logitech Yoke constant left rudder to keep it straight, since it doesn’t have rudder trim. I haven’t figured out if my yoke needs calibration, since I don’t notice it on other aircraft, and I haven’t figured out how to calibrate the yoke or rudder through the Logitech software.

EricC97123 · September 7, 2020, 4:05am

Have you been switching your tanks on the Cub? You could be out of balance.

Wheeldust329 · September 7, 2020, 4:31am

Yes, I did try that. But it happens right after takeoff too. Great point, and thanks for the suggestion!

Wheeldust329 · September 7, 2020, 4:36am

I’m flying the TBM9 right now, took it off AP, and it immediately started to bank to the right. Now I’m sure that there’s some torque involved, but with the TBM I can counter it with rudder trim. That isn’t available on the X-cub. Either that, or my yoke needs calibration, and I can’t find out how to do it, since there isn’t a procedure in the Logitech Yoke software to do it that I could find.

EricC97123 · September 7, 2020, 4:49am

Yeah it sounds like it needs to be calibrated. I suspect the sim has a way to calibrate it

EricC97123 · September 7, 2020, 4:50am

Try this https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?324313-How-do-you-calibrate-a-joystick-or-HOTAS-in-FS2020

Wheeldust329 · September 7, 2020, 5:20am

Thanks! That showed me in Windows Control Panel where the Yoke settings are, but they didn’t actually allow a calibration, or change, of the existing settings as far as I could tell. There was no “apply” for new settings; just a demonstration of what happens when you turn the yoke.

I was able to find a script on the logitech website that supposedly wipes the windows registry (yikes!) and then re-detects the yoke when you plug the USB cable back in. Talk about a brute-force way of adjustment! I hate messing with the registry like that. Who knows how old that script is, and what other damage it would cause to the latest version of Windows 10 since it was written. Oh, heck no! That script date is 2016! No way I’m letting that go in and monkey with my Windows registry.

hobanagerik · September 7, 2020, 10:09am

It’s not calibration. I have the same thing, and two notches of left rudder, via my rudder trim on the Yoko+ returns you to co-ordinated flight. It’s one of two things: the TBM flight model unintentionally, or engine torque. But it’s the only aircraft I have observed this with regularly, though I may make an effort now to see if other aircraft do this.

Wheeldust329 · September 7, 2020, 1:55pm

Well, I bit the bullet and tried the script that Logitech on their website, even though it was made in 2016.

While it did clear the registry of the yoke settings so that it re-detected the yoke when I plugged the USB cable back in, it had zero effect on my problem. The X-cub still drifts to the right, and without rudder trim capability like there is on the TBM, I either use the AP or I have to continually lean on the yoke to the left.

So, if it’s intentional because of engine torque, I get it. I just never realized (I’m not a pilot) that there are aircraft that DON’T have rudder trim of some sort that would make yoke rudder trim in the sim un-immersive.