Check and make sure you don’t have any double binds. Especially vr hand controllers. This can cause

Check and make sure you don’t have any double binds. Especially vr hand controllers. This can cause this issue. Double check this now and dcs updates can cause it to happen as they bring back those controller settings for some reason.

Hhcee.- The VPforce setting is meant for sims / modules that don't have ffb. - Check R...

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 3:50 PM

Hm I thought as long as "Override Trim" isn't enabled this wouldn't be an issue. I will try this today.

RReed Check and make sure you don’t have any double binds. Especially vr hand controll...

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 3:51 PM

Interesting. I will definitely look thru my binds today.

PPoor Yurik Hm I thought as long as "Override Trim" isn't enabled this wouldn't be an issue....

Number481•11/19/23, 4:05 PM

For DCS, those settings won't take effect unless Override is enabled, as you say. The only things I can think if is if something is triggering the DCS "trim reset" binding when you release the force trim button. Also make sure you have no curves set in DCS. Curves and FFB do not get along.

NNumber481 For DCS, those settings won't take effect unless Override is enabled, as you say...

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:20 PM

Here's the thing -- the re-centering is to the newly set center. So it's not continually retrimming.

Number481•11/19/23, 4:24 PM

I dont understand. You push and hold the trim release, the spring forces go away. You move the stick, release the trim button, the forces come back centered at the new position. That is normal behavior.

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:27 PM

Imagine if you installed the center trim system from the black shark into a jet. That's how it acts. The center changes, but it constantly tries to return to that center instead of acting like a cyclic.

Number481•11/19/23, 4:31 PM

I guess I'm being thick and still dont understand. 'return to center', to me, means where the stick will settle whenyou let go.. that is the 'center of spring force'. Force trim, by its very nature, changes the center of the spring force to be wherever you want the trimmed position to be.

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:31 PM

So I trim, the center changes. I pitch forward and take my hand off the stick and it snaps back to that center, rather than using that center as the new point of reference but acting like a cyclic where it stays where I leave it

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:34 PM

Maybe I'm not understanding how things should work. Here's what I thought: a helo's cyclic felt like a dead stick in terms of angle. Trimming simply sets a new center reference point. The force I should feel is aerodynamic effects (shudder, resistance, etc) and things like gunfire rumble and landing touchdowns.

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:35 PM

I.e. no snap-to-center effect

Number481•11/19/23, 4:36 PM

Helicopters have a magnetic brake that holds the cyclic in a given position. This magnetic brake has springs with a a certain amount of range that you can fight against, but the cyclic will return to that position where the brake is holding it. If you want to move the resting (trimmed) position of the cyclic, you push and hold the force trim button, which disengages to magnetic brake and you are now free to move the cyclic wherever you want. When you release the button, the brake re-engages.

This is simulated in DCS by removing the spring force when you push and hold the trim button. When you release the button, it recalculates the new spring center point and re-applies the spring.

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:38 PM

Interesting

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:40 PM

Doing a big think right now. This sounds like I've just been having a total misunderstanding of helos now that I've translated from non-ffb to the Rhino. Pre-Rhino I bought a cm3 base to get "dead stick" because that's how I understood people explaining a cyclic's behavior.

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:42 PM

Now I wish the Mongoose stick's thumb hat was a button instead. Too easy to move the hat in an unintended way rather than triggering a click on it.

Number481•11/19/23, 4:43 PM

The cyclic will, indeed, 'stay where you put it'.. its just that in a real helo, in order to 'put it', you user the force trim button to set where the mag-brake is holding the cyclic.

In a UH-1, with the force trim switch off (the only heli I know where you can disable the system).. the cyclic will not "purposefully " stay where you put it. You don't take your hand off the cyclic with force-trim disabled in the UH-1

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:44 PM

Maybe I need to bind my trim to one of the hat directions, like right so I squeeze it into the stick. Hm. Will experiment.

Number481•11/19/23, 4:44 PM

The closest approximation you can get without FFB is a joystick base with a friction clutch.

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:45 PM

I get it now. Thank you so much for explaining it in context of how it works irl.

Number481•11/19/23, 4:45 PM

I don't know what grip you have, but the thumb switch is a common button for the trim release (I see you said now)

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:45 PM

I have this one: https://virpil-controls.us.com/vpc-mongoost-50cm2-grip.html

VPC MongoosT-50CM2 Grip

★ Cyrillic Button Labels
★ Based on Modern Russian Fighter Jet Controls
★ Material - Enhanced PU Plastic Construction
★ Wide Variety of Buttons, Triggers and Hats
★ Analogue Brake Lever

Due to the height of the grip, it is best suited for desk mounted/cockpit setups.

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:46 PM

Perfect in many ways for the Shark. Especially for the Shkval hat. Only thing I'd swap is the thumb hat for a single button.

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:46 PM

The hat clicks, but that's a little finicky at that position ergonomically imo.

Number481•11/19/23, 4:47 PM

The alpha is the same way.. I've bound depress, forward and right all to the trim-release before (if you don't need the other directions for some other function, like in the Apache)

Poor Yurik•11/19/23, 4:48 PM

I own an Alpha too. Great stick, but the twist always comes loose for me over time.

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:23 PM

Hello guys,
Does anyone fly Mi-24 in DCS and have some good settings for Rhino? I can not find so goods settings for me. Maybe when I see another settings I will find something for me

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:25 PM

I use also TeleFFB but I think there are not so many effects for Mi-24, or I do something wrong

AAndrut Hello guys, Does anyone fly Mi-24 in DCS and have some good settings for Rhino?...

Number481•11/19/23, 5:39 PM

What isn't working how you want it? There isn't anything in the way of flight forces feedback in a helicopter cyclic. FFB is pretty much limited to force trim (see conversation directly above). FFB Force Trim is implemented natively in DCS. Just adjust the spring and dapmen forces in VPforce configurator to your liking. TelemFFB is only used to add haptic effects like engine/rotor rumble, gunfire, damage effect, etc. etc.

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:41 PM

Ok, so basic stetting is only damper and spring for heli, right? Or do you use another options with heli also?

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:42 PM

TelemFFB at this moment add effect only during damages or taxing, during shooting is nothing, engine also, I fly olny MI-24, maybe for Mi-24 is not implemented

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:42 PM

I found some settings for me, Spring around 15-20%, and damper for 70% but maybe someone has better setting, so I wanted to check it how someone else use available effects

AAndrut I found some settings for me, Spring around 15-20%, and damper for 70% but maybe...

Number481•11/19/23, 5:45 PM

For me, personally, I keep the spring at %100. It should be hard to move the cyclic unless you are holding down the force trim button. I keep damper around %20 just to give a little hydraulic feeling.. you dont want any high forces since you need to be able to make very microsopic adjustments.

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:45 PM

I will check it

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:45 PM

Thanks a lot

AAndrut TelemFFB at this moment add effect only during damages or taxing, during shootin...

Number481•11/19/23, 5:47 PM

All of the effects I mentioned (and more) should work with the Mi-24. The periodic effect slider in VPforce configurator controls the maximum intensity for any of these types of effects (usually keep at %50). There are individual intensity settings for all of these effects in the TelemFFB configuration file.

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:50 PM

What about effect of Instant trim mode? When I keep cyclic in position, I click trim and I ffb move the cyclic again, like in DCS when you use joy without ffb. In instant trim you have to fast go to neutral position to avoid it. How to minimalize it with FFB?

AAndrut What about effect of Instant trim mode? When I keep cyclic in position, I click ...

Number481•11/19/23, 5:59 PM

Make sure you have FFB enabled in DCS settings.

Andrut•11/19/23, 5:59 PM

I have, checked it

Number481•11/19/23, 6:10 PM

If you have Force Feedback enabled in the DCS Misc. settings, and you have the helicopter trimmer set to Instant/default, it behaves differently than the same instant/default setting with a non-FFB joystick.

With non-FFB, as you say, you instantly get double input and need to return it to center. With FFB, that does not happen.

PPoor Yurik Interesting. I will definitely look thru my binds today.

ReedOP•11/19/23, 9:41 PM

Check thumbsticks on controllers and vr controllers. I had the exact issue and it was a double bind in the axis x,y.

RReed Check thumbsticks on controllers and vr controllers. I had the exact issue and i...

Poor Yurik•11/20/23, 12:47 AM

Ended up just being me completely misunderstanding the intended behavior of a helicopter's cyclic. @Number481 fully explained it above. I'm all set now and loving it now that I'm not fighting how it works based on my former pre-ffb understanding of what to expect.

PPoor Yurik Ended up just being me completely misunderstanding the intended behavior of a he...

ReedOP•11/20/23, 3:52 AM

Excellent

silverphinex•11/20/23, 6:22 AM

I know it's a low priority but is there a way to get the RGB on the virpil constellation prime lit up with the rhino

356thFS_Piranha•11/20/23, 6:47 AM

After doing the auto calibrate my stick wants to settle far forward when playing IL2 and the only way I can bring it to center is to adjust the FFB X and Y axes. Can anyone tell me why or how to adjust it to center by using the auto calibrate or is this normal behavior?

3356thFS_Piranha After doing the auto calibrate my stick wants to settle far forward when playing...

PiNKSH!T•11/20/23, 6:48 AM

sry does the stick rest forward when the plane is 'cold & dark'

PiNKSH!T•11/20/23, 6:48 AM

but move to center when you start up & throttle a bit?

Ssilverphinex I know it's a low priority but is there a way to get the RGB on the virpil const...

amadeus•11/20/23, 8:40 AM

Currently RGB isn’t supported at the moment, it’s mostly dependent on Walmis reverse engineering an existing Virpil base

3356thFS_Piranha After doing the auto calibrate my stick wants to settle far forward when playing...

walmis•11/20/23, 9:29 AM

Are you using an asymetrical throw limiter?

356thFS_Piranha•11/20/23, 5:01 PM

The stick is loose when plan is cold and dark., but when the plane starts it settles forward of center when straight and level flight. After I adjusted the X and Y axes its close to center. Without the game running and the axes adjusted manually and with the stick on it settles just aft of center. It's game related. I only have tried it in IL2, so I don't know if it's the same for other games. I have no idea what a asymetrical throw limiter is so I don't think I'm using one.

356thFS_Piranha•11/20/23, 5:16 PM

Also when I switch to auto pilot and have auto calibrated the stick moves to the center position and when i take it out of auto pilot it again moves forward and the planes nose drops.

3356thFS_Piranha The stick is loose when plan is cold and dark., but when the plane starts it set...

Number481•11/20/23, 5:26 PM

Which aircraft in IL-2 and, is this with or without TelemFFB? I noticed, while writing the telemetry module for TelemFFB, that IL-2 tends to do some really weird things with FFB in some of the aircraft

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