Yeah, if you don't have any hang ups on modding it as soon as you get it, it's really not a difficul
Yeah, if you don't have any hang ups on modding it as soon as you get it, it's really not a difficult task as long as you have some basic tools
PI'd say it'd be different to how your's does as it's the standalone version
Preally considering taking the foam base to a foam & rubber shop & getting it cut for the hf8 & a gel/mem foam topper, I don't have any meat on my arse lol
Rhaha it's really not that difficult. I got a turkey cutter knife, and it went through the foam quite easily.
Phow far back does it recline? enough for laying back a bit?
RIt reclines quite a bit, you don't have ot worry about that.
Ror do you mean slide back? it slides about 5-6 inches
Poh yeah, just to make the cut out bigger I'll diy with a big bread knife, but I may go as far as the mem foam/hf8 cut out mod, I have heard ppl say the jetseat/hf8 can get a bit sore after a while
Pyeah I meant how far will it recline back, gotta be able to lay back after a flight & watch YT lol
Pdid you diy that f16 throttle grip & base?
Rit will recline up to 122 degrees
Ryep
Pvery nice, did you do any type of "lifting the grip" detent system
Ryeah, it has the lift the grip syste, it's reversed, underneath the grip instead.
Pfar out m8 that really cool, good job
RRActually you can recline it flat. lol
Pok going to get a small mattress made for it now 
PI can just sleep at my pit
Pcheers for all the help m8, I'm off to bed
RNo problem! Good night!
DIs there a way to invert the trim hat when using DCS? I had to invert the installation of the box… the X and Y axis work just fine. The trim hat works, however it seems to trim in the opposite direction. When I trim nose up, the stick trims down and vice versa.
AIIRC there is a FFB tune menu in DCS controls/axes screen. Try inverting the FFB there.
DTried that…. Did not seem to help the trim.
WWhich aircraft?
LHi everyone, sorry of this has been asked before, couldn’t find it.
Weirdly, I can’t get the stick to center (see images) and I bet it’s software related, so I’m just too dumb to fix it. Can any of you guys help me out here how I can get it centered?
I’ve been needing to add huge deadzones to my dcs y axes so the aircraft don’t constantly pull up.
Weirdly, I can’t get the stick to center (see images) and I bet it’s software related, so I’m just too dumb to fix it. Can any of you guys help me out here how I can get it centered?
I’ve been needing to add huge deadzones to my dcs y axes so the aircraft don’t constantly pull up.
LThanks @walmis ! I'll give it a go
DThe F-15E.
WFirst thing to check is if the axis in VP configurator is correct, i.e. if you move the stick forward it should go up
DIt does. The stick itself is working correctly. Because I had to install the base backwards, the stick axis had to be inverted, it works correctly. The trim hat, not only in button mode are they button pushes very vague (half the time when you push up in the trim switch it registers as a right push) on the hat switch, DCS is registering no effect in button mode. If I change the grip to a Virpil grip in the menu, a hat switch becomes available, but the switch appears inverted, meaning when I push nose down trim (hat switch up) the stick trims nose up.
WAh, so it's a switch problem?
DI think so. With the TM F-18 grip, I do not seem to be able to get the stick to recognize the hat switch, it recognizes it as button pushes. If I change the grip in the setup menu to a Virpil grip, it sees the hat switch as a hat switch, but then inverts the effect of pushing the switch, even though in the VP program I see the 'arrows' correctly displaced.
Wroger that, can you list the hat buttons that light up in the VPforce configurator, I'll add those to the next firmware as hat switches.
something like - "up:11, down:12" etc
something like - "up:11, down:12" etc
DI have them memorized, LOL... Buttons 13, 14, 15, 16 starting at the left 9 o'clock position and cycling counter clockwise.
DI plan on working more on it today.
DYep, very weird. I cannot seem to get the hat to register as a hat, it only registers as a button push.
PThat's not an unusual setup. Wouldn't it be better to be able to define the center with the offset in the calibration?
WYou still need to balance it in software for good force trim performance
DEureka moment! Okay, by selecting Virpil CM50 grip, it activated the hat switch, shows as Hat 1, then by reassigning the trim functions to Hat Viewpoint 4 in the controls page, it is working! It is making some of my other switches, notably the small Up-Down-Press switch that is not found on the real F-18 grip, but is added on the TM grip, appear to DCS as a hat switch. A little weird there, but definitely workable.
DThe only other thing I changed was inverting the Y axis in the DCS control software, and then checking the Inverted box in the Y axis for the VP Force config software.
PTrue
WDoes the axis movement indicator correspond to actual axis movement in the VPforce config tool? If the axis is inverted, then there might be issues with wrong force direction.
SIf you have inverted the axis in VPForce config and it moves in correct direction in the indicator then you shouldn’t need to invert it in DCS also. Try to uncheck the invert FFB Y-axis in DCS if you have that on.
DI will check again.
DI am getting a lot of Motor X FAULT_ENCODER_MAGNET, I am getting a lot of Motor Y FAULT_ENCODER_MAGNET, messages... is this because I have the Gain too high? Seems to happen when I make sudden moves with the stick.
DAlso occasionally get Motor X: FAULT_UNEXPECTED_D_CURRENT messages for Motor X and Motor Y.
WYeah, some gain is too high and it enters protection mode.
Can you show your settings?
Can you show your settings?
DI am using the default profile from the Import. I can post it later.
Afwiw, was doing some experiments a while back and loaded up the default profile, and noticed it had a tendency to spin out into faults quite easily, and so reverted back to my profile
Aso wondering if the default profile needs some tuning