Has very erratic action and basically it is either 100% one direction or the other. It works fine in other aircraft.
Thanks for your help.
Yea same thing for me. I can’t figure it out. It’s only on the 6 pack 172.
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Are we the only ones with this issue? If so, it would tell me that it is with my setup. Thanks!
Hmm… I use G940, not Saitek. In my case, full rotation of my elevator trim wheel moves trim only for 50%. 6 pack С-172.
No a couple of people have this issue. It’s just local to the the 6pack 172. The g1000 version is fine and the 152 works fine also.
Same problem here with Saitek trim wheel. I found a solution (hopefully, temporary) that works for me. Go to General Options → Accessibility → Cockpit Interaction System and change the setting to “Legacy”. When ready to fly and scroll down in the cockpit to view the action of the trim wheel when moving the Saitek trim wheel. It moves the trim wheel up and down like it used to, but does not appear to have full travel. However, it flies like it used to and I haven’t run out of trim during a normal flight. In addition, the keyboard NUM 1 and NUM 7 function again and they show full travel of the trim wheel - in case you run out of trim with the Saitek trim wheel. It works as it used to, but if anybody can improve on the travel with the Saitek trim wheel, please post. Thanks.
Thank you Porewar. I will try this.
You are welcome. I hope it works for you, too.
In addition to the Legacy setting described above, I changed all of the Saitek trim wheel sensitivity settings to zero except reactivity at 100%. It works, but I hope they issue an update so we can go back to our original settings for the Saitek trim wheel.
Got it. That is brilliant. I will try these settings tonight. Thanks again.
After changing the Cockpit Interaction System setting to Legacy as indicated above, I found my preference of the trim wheel sensitivity works best at -50% to make it less sensitive around the take-off setting. See images.
I decided to run a few tests as I use the saitek Multi panel with trim wheel but SpadNext controlled.
I found that in either 172 it took 4 turns (that is from top to bottom of the wheel) to move the in airplaine wheel one notch.
Changing the parameter (currently 0) didnt make any difference but I think this command hasnt a parameter attached. But it works well with SpadNext and allows for good adjustment.
I understand that one could also bind the A1 and A2 button on the left handle of a Saitek yoke to set trim and by alterring the repeat value you may be able to adjust more precicely if you have the yoke but not the multipanel.
The yoke can be set in MSFS including the repeat value so that would not require SpadNext, although I very strongly recommend SpadNext. It is one of those items that becomes as umnmissable as Little NavMap, once you start using it.
(see pic)
I hope so. Very sad that it is broken. This is one reason I am back to flying Xplane right now.
Didn’t work for me but thanks for the tip