Several of the aircraft I enjoy flying seem to have an extremely slow rate of trimming up and down. Was wondering if there is a way to speed it up? Thanks!
Hardware control trim wheel. Generally speaking, the faster you spin it, the faster the trim rate. Hat Switch Trims/Toggle Trims, not so much.
You used to be able to bind two buttons to this. If you bind a wheel it will trim slowly. If you bind a constant signal, as in a button press and hold, then the Trim will accelerate after a short period. I used two buttons for this. One I held down to make it move a lot, and then fine adjustment with a wheel function. A wheel function is a series of single press and releases. This is why it moves slower than a constantly held button.
I haven’t played in a while. It worked this way a while back, but I doubt this has changed.
You don’t say what controller you are using to manage the aircraft trim with but trim, in the sim, is not bound to an axis but is a simulated button press. As I understand it the rate of button press is not a variable and can not be adjusted. I have the Honeycomb Bravo and using vJoy and the Authentikit Tuning App I am able to bind trim to an axis and then adjust the sensitivity, per aircraft, to suit my needs. I can now use the elevator trim wheel on the Bravo very effectively whereas prior to watching Mark on The Simhangar You Tube channel I was, in common with many other Bravo users, very frustrated with the slow response to trim wheel movement - and spinning it rapidly is counter productive!
I used that for a while and it worked very well.
I started using SPAD and Les O’Reilly, one of the gurus on the Discord taught us to bind the wheel (which as you say are buttons) to ‘Elevator_Trim_Position’.
Increment for one direction, decrement for the other.
Since that variable is in radians I can set the amount of travel for each individual plane’s preset.
It’s typically about .003 - .005 per ‘button press’.
Very smooth, precise trim adjustment.
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That’s a clever way to improve the trim wheel action, I wonder if that can be done with As & Ohs?
I bet it can!
I installed a script ages ago for Axis and Ohs which does just this. The script is easy to mod and you can make the trim adjustment as fast as you want by just adjusting the values in the script.
As I say I installed this ages ago (a year or so ago??) but from memory I think I downloaded it from flightsim.to
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