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Old 12-18-2006 | 08:55 PM
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Default RE: why should down mean up?

ORIGINAL: earlwynngate
How in the the hell does it help a newbee like me, make it easier to fly that pushing "down" on the elevator would propel the plane upwards?
It's only pushing "down" if you're holding the transmitter upright like a nOOb...otherwise, like most of us who hold it inclined nearly to the horizontal or like the finger and thumb tray resting purists, completely horizontal, it's forward and back, just like the stick in real life.

it goes against all natural instincts and reactions unless you've been doing this for years.
The "natural instincts" you rote learned over years of mouse orientation in Half Life and Quake or <insert name of favourite FPS here> you mean?

So tonight I've reversed the servo on the the elevator so when I push it up the plane will go up.
Am I alone in my thinking? Has anyone else tried this? Am I creating a bad habit for for myself?
Generally, probably and yes.