Flying sims
 

Why do I have more problems flying my G4 sim then flying my Trex 450? I am new to heli's {years with planes} but my sim is almost uncontolable in a hover. I can hover the 450 in one spot to a 3 foot circle.

Jerry

RE: Flying sims
 

must be nice... i am just the opposite.. i crash my helis almost everyitme.. but the sim i can fly pretty good.. i think it has a a lot to do with the tx being so sensitive on the sim...

RE: Flying sims
 

Try calibrating your controller in both windows and the sim.

RE: Flying sims
 

Don't get me wrong I crash my 450 also and it is more expensive to repair, but my sim is almost unflyable. How do I, where do I, calibrate my windows?

RE: Flying sims
 

In windows, go to control panel, click Printers and Other Hardware, select game controllers, then double click on Interlink, and use the settings page to calibrate to windows. In the sim, I just have 3.5 so i don't know exactly how it is in G4, but there should be a controller drop down menu on the main screen with a "calibrate" selection, then just follow the directions it gives. If there isn't anything like that, then there should be something in the manual that tells how to properly calibrate your Interlink within the sim.

RE: Flying sims
 

Thanks Bugzilla

The sim now flies right. I have also reduced the rates and added about 40% Expo about the same as in the 450.

Jerry

RE: Flying sims
 

Thanks Bugzilla,

Your post above gave me the info I needed to improve my Real Flight sim realism. I bought Real Flight g3.5 about 10 months ago (a month or so before g4.0 came out [:o]) to learn heli flight. I've been flying airplanes for about 7 years now and with all the new electric 450 size helis avialble I wanted to make the jump to the other side:). I've held back to this point from buying a heli because I was not progressing like I thought I should in my sim practice. The controller latency was slow and felt twitchy. I tried every thing I could think of to improve the feel. I calibrated the controller in Real Flight, no improvment. I connected a Futaba tx with the adaptor cord, no improvment. I increased servo speeds to imporve latency and changed expo and dual rate settings for the twitchiness. I could make what I felt were small improvements in feel by modifying the sim model's servo speed, expo and dual rate settings but it never felt right. Only after following your suggestion of calibrating the interlink controller in my Microsoft control panal did the latency and twitchiness really improve. For others out there that think there sim is not very realistic, I suggest you follow Bugzilla's advice and also calibrate your controller in operating systems control panel. It made a huge improvement for me.

Thanks