HNow this is exciting! Can’t wait to take this thing for a spin!
SStupid question but how do you guys turn the rhino off? Just pressing the red button? ... And leave the stick hanging loose?
AI just switch off the extension cord and power off most of my pit, including the rhino
SThe buttons should work out of the box for a TM Stick right ?
FYes right out of the box. In the configurator I set the stick as if it was the vpc mongoost-50 so the hats can behave like hats or buttons. Otherwise they just behave like buttons. I let hat 1 (coolie hat) behave like hats and set the other ones as buttons.
SStrange - it doesn't work for me
FPM me if you want and I can show you my configuration
WThat's strange, could it be it's not making full electrical contact 
WTM grips are pretty simple, they should 'just work'
SI will try an reconnect it tomorrow and write in the support - I use a virpil extension
FTry it without the extension first. Maybe the extension cable is faulty.
FThe only reason I set it as vpc mt-50 is so I can use the coolie hat as 8 way hat.
SYes I will try - but it should work I used the same extension and same stick with my mongoose base and everything worked fine
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JInteresting
SSorry for the confusion it was not properly connected, now everything works as intended - and the Rhino is wonderful 
WGlad to hear that it's working properly!
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Abtw -- do we know if anyone at Heatblur has a Rhino? if not, i would be happy to help contribute to a fund to make sure someone there gets one 
NIDK.. unlikely is my guess.. but c'mon.. FFB is FFB.. sidewinders are a dime a dozen on ebay if your only interested in dev testing 
Aa sidewinder is not at all like a rhino
Aand the things you might do on a lower end device, may not translate well to a rhino
Nin terms of reacting to basic FFB implementation from DCS?
Ain terms of building an FFB experience that matches the jet
Abut it's also one of those top of mind things, by having one, they probably end up using it, and want to ensure it has good support in the modules they build
Ait's all a self perpetuating circle
Nwell, I often see developer responses to queries about FFB fixes and/or implementations as "we don't have a device".. which is more of what the spirit of my response was referring to
Aand the spirit of my trying to fix that problem 
WI do offer the developers of modules a cancelled spot in the queue, so if they want they could obtain a Rhino quite quickly. A dev from Polychop did reach out to me, but for some reason did not follow through yet with the order.
WAlso a Rhino is quite useful for developing FFB since it has the live debug view of the effects 
BI am a developer ... 
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DThe VPForce software makes up for the lack of implementation in DCS
Ait does help for sure
NNew TelemFFB update for MSFS bringing the often asked about trim and autopilot following feature to life. The features are fully documented in the Rhino manual (linked below) so I won't bore you to death with details here. Grab the latest version from #VPforce-TelemFFB .
Huge thanks to @smitty981 who was instrumental in brainstorming , testing, documentation and providing a good number of example aircraft configs!.
Huge thanks to @smitty981 who was instrumental in brainstorming , testing, documentation and providing a good number of example aircraft configs!.
NMSFS
Please read the full documentation in the VPForce Manualhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1YL5DLkiTxlaNx_zKHEYSs25PjmGtQ6_WZDk58_SGt8Y
- New option to send joystick/pedal axis position to MSFS via simconnect. Requires un-binding axes from MSFS
- telemffb_controls_axes - Master control for simconnect axis sending (true/false)
- joystick_x_axis_scale - Scale joystick x axis output (0-%100)
- joystick_y_axis_scale - Scale joystick y axis output (0-%100)
- rudder_x_axis_scale - Scale pedal axis output (0-%100)
- telemffb_controls_axes - Master control for simconnect axis sending (true/false)
- New trim and AP following functionality for fixed wing aircraft. REQUIRES `telemffb_controls_axes = True`
- trim_following = True - Master control for trim/ap following (true/false)
- ap_following - Enable/disable ap following (only disables aileron/rudder) (true/false)
- invert_ap_x_axis - Invert the x axis AP follow behavior (req'd for some AC like the default C172)
- joystick_trim_follow_gain_physical_x - Physical stick x axis movement as a percentage of the trim value (0-100%)
- joystick_trim_follow_gain_physical_y - Physical stick y axis movement as a percentage of the trim value (0-100%)
- joystick_trim_follow_gain_virtual_x - Virtual stick x axis movement as a percentage of the physical stick movement (0-100%)
- joystick_trim_follow_gain_virtual_y - Virtual stick y axis movement as a percentage of the physical stick movement (0-100%)
- rudder_trim_follow_gain_physical_x - Physical pedal x axis movement as a percentage of the trim value (0-100%)
- rudder_trim_follow_gain_virtual_x - Virtual pedal x axis movement as a percentage of the physical pedal movement (0-100%)
- trim_following = True - Master control for trim/ap following (true/false)
Adamn girl, u busy
EWow! That is just awesome! Thanks for all your hard work!
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BI think I ran into this just yesterday. I have a new VKB FSM-GA autopilot module that I was configuring, and the AP in MSFS kept kicking off b/c I had some hardware trim applied. Is that what this fixes?
NIt doesn't 'fix' anything, per se.. but it does allow you to control how much virtual stick movement occurs as a result of the physical stick movement. During testing, @smitty981 said he had previously had an trim issue with the AP in the Comanche that he was able to solve with the this trim following implementation.
Syep i have a hardware trim axis made with a somewhat noisy potentiometer, so in the control sensitivity i had a deazone in the middle. even before vpforce if i left the trim wheel out of the deadzone with AP on, the noise would send a new value and make AP twitch a bit. so i turn on AP and slowly rotate it back to the deadzone. if you use the trim up down buttons or an encoder-based trim wheel it's not an issue.
NThe big difference here compared to hardware trim is that hardware trim has no insight into the state of the aircraft. You set the trim, which just moves the stick spring center offset, which moves the axis by an equal amount. Whether you later engage AP or not, HW trim does not know and the stick offset will remain until you change or reset it.
With this new TelemFFB implementation, the trim movement of the stick is actually following the trim values as read from the sim (so you'll want to have your trim hats bound in the sim). The gain settings affect how much the physical stick moves in response to the trim value changing, and how much the virtual stick moves in response to the physical stick movement.
When you switch AP on, the elevator axis continues to follow the trim reading from the sim (since thats what APs use to adjust pitch). The aileron/rudder following reads the actual control surface deflection to determine how much to move the physical stick.
With this new TelemFFB implementation, the trim movement of the stick is actually following the trim values as read from the sim (so you'll want to have your trim hats bound in the sim). The gain settings affect how much the physical stick moves in response to the trim value changing, and how much the virtual stick moves in response to the physical stick movement.
When you switch AP on, the elevator axis continues to follow the trim reading from the sim (since thats what APs use to adjust pitch). The aileron/rudder following reads the actual control surface deflection to determine how much to move the physical stick.
Gdoes anybody own a virpil collective chair mount? im curious to know ho high the spacers are
