It actually makes a pretty big difference for me. I like a medium amount of dampen on the stick so without the new setting it is always just a tad off of center depending on which direction the stick was deflected.. with the new adaptive recentering it always 'finds home'..
Some helicopters (e.g. Airbus H145) have full-time stability augmentation/autpilot systems that connect to all three controls (cyclic, collective, and pedals), so the pedals are on actuators that lets Otto move the pedals as needed to maintain direction. E.g. in more recent builds of the Hype H145 for MSFS, you can actually see the pedals "snap" slightly as you lift off to the position that eliminates any yaw. (Now that I think about that, I guess maybe there is a reason to have FFB on the pedals after all, at least for some aircraft. Earlier, I posted a "why bother?" note about going to the trouble...)
I mean, you can trim pedals in Mi24 - so I'd like FFB pedals for that purpose too. At the moment I have the trim on pedals disabled because, well, I'd rather fly manual pedals all the time than have the horrible trim solutions in software... It's the same reason why I never bothered with force trim when I flew helicopters before I had the Rhino. I just flew the stick without trimming at all times. Worked fine, too.
Working with Dimitar, the main man at https://simfab.com/ to try and get an adaptor for his DCS Flight Sim Modular Cockpit product for the Rhino, along with my 200mm Virpil extension, which causes issues with the height of the grip relative to the chair (arse), and will let you know as and when I get a finished product and how well it goes, because he is a lot less expensive than Monstertech and only lives up the road from me in Boynton Beach, FL - 65 miles N of Miami.
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Hello good people, I am now 18 Rhino's away from my order. I am more of a novice at flight sims but ordered the Rhino last year as it looked fantastic for DCS Helicopters. My question:
I don't have a sim pit, I don't have a fancy setup and I don't have the space for a dedicated sim pit frame. Can I use a normal office chair and a Monster.tech Long Mount? Will I need an S-bend extension with a virpil grip?
I'm in a similar boat. You'll want something sturdy to mount it to and something that will keep you from pushing away from it with the chair. I think an S-bend is almost required, even with the virpil S-bend I wish my stick was a bit closer
Fun video to prepare for the Heatblur F-4. Note especially the section at about 17:30 about stick behaviour in transitions between transonic and supersonic. Will be interesting to see if this is implemented! https://youtu.be/iZiduQboyow
Produced by McDonnell Douglas for the Military Airlift Command and the U.S. Navy,, F-4 FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS was a restricted film made for pilot training purposes. The opening features a fabulous montage of imagery comparing a fighter jock to a horse-riding cowboy. The film includes ...