Hey, I’m interested in giving this base double duty, centre with extension, and side stick without.
Was looking at the QR4rigs quick release for ease of moving it from two different mounts, but one concern is the durability of the grip screw mount on the Rhino base itself, it’s not metal like Virpil’s bases right, so I wonder how it’s going to fare from changing grip/extension on and off now and again?
You can buy or print replacements of that piece however an aluminum upgrade of it is in it's final stages before being available so metal will also be an option for that.
jealous AF for your experience, thanks a lot for these insights mate. By all means share more - DCS Huey is still my favourite despite it being old (not unlike myself lol). Did you use force trim and did your friend ever turn it on during cruise? If you did how stiff is the mag lock can you move it at all?
So, he turned off the force trim pretty much as soon as we started flying. We used the friction settings on the stick in the helicopter to get a little bit of hold and resistance but that’s it.
I only felt what it was like with force trim for a brief moment, but with spring force set to about 60% and force trim turned on in the software, that’s about what I remember
I fly a warbird in real life, flight simmer 25 years, love the Rhino, but my only complain with the Rhino is as follows (maybe its just settings) What setting can I use so the controls get a lot more resistance when I go at high speed (DCS warbirds) I know it cannot get as stiff as in a real warbird, but the difference of resistance between slow speed and high speed could be more noticeable, is there a setting that can help achieve this? Also I notice the ailerons get pretty ok resistance , and the elevator has kind of a mushy feel, where I need to pull backwards a lot and does not have as much resistance compared to the ailerons, IRL it is instant and there is no mushy feel at all.
Next versions of telemFFB + Rhino firmware will be able to realize this feature more dynamically. Currently you can increase spring gain overall using the spring gain tool: The curve in pic increases the spring gain to 200%, for example. Beware: Too much gain will deteriorate the feedback loop stability.
Hello everyone. My number is close and I'm trying to decide whether to purchase or not. I've decided that I'd like to continue to use my Puma X controls. Has anyone been able to figure out a way to mount the Rhino on the Puna frame and use the Puma electronics for cyclic, collective and pedals?
Is not that I feel it does not have enough power, if you increase spring gain it gets stiff, but across the whole range, even at slow speeds, seems to be the next version of Telem will take care of it.
The Rhino has a ton of power as it is, as the other dude said, it just needs a better force curve with warbirds. But Walmis and Number481 are working on that now.
The amount of force that the "other options" are advertising seems downright dangerous, compared to sim racing peripherals. Like wrist breaking if the aircraft does something unexpected or you forget to let go in a crash, or there's a loss of telemetry levels of dangerous.
I had a similar experience when i did a discovery flight in an R22, I had lots of RC helicopter experience at the time, no real stick time tho. Second time in a heli. First was a Tour over the grand canyon. The instructor took us up, showed me the coastal sites, then asked if i wanted to take the stick. Absolutely!
I did some figure 8s, orbited the airport while maintaining airspeed and alt. All of that was easy. Then lets try some hovering. We parked about 3-5ft over the landing pad, and she started handing me controls one by one. Collective, then cyclic. There was a small miscommunication on the anti-torque however, as I never "took control" but my feet rested on them to try to feel what she was doing. Turns out she wasn't doing anything, so we were doing pirouettes over the landing pad and i was maintaining the hover within the 10 foot 'H' circle, while spinning around. Not super fast out of control, but fast enough to do a 360 in 6-10 seconds. She kept telling me I'm doing great and how impressed she was, I'm wondering why we are starting on hardmode, fighting for my life to keep the helicopter over this little circle as we are spinning around and around.
I know she was blowing smoke up my ass, but felt really good to hear that I did better than all of her students with 30+ hours of experience. And she couldn't believe this was my first flight.
I searched for Puma and found scant few messages. I'm assuming no one here has incorporated the Puma controls into a Rhino setup? If so, any comments would be appreciated. Thank you.
Good deal, I'm about 80 to go in the queue - wondering if this is going to be overpriced and obsolete in a year. If you fly warbirds and it gets your stamp of approval, then that's something.
Yeah that's a big point in the favor of the Rhino is the software seems like it's quite good. With the growing number of owners it also seems like there's going to be a lot of profiles for different aircraft, let alone the updates that are coming from Walmis and company.
I think the Rhino is great, that was my only complaint and is going to addressed , I really enjoy it, the stall buffeting is just like a real plane, also the flaps, and gear movement, machine guns and cannons I suppose so, never fired those IRL The engine rumble is great too, you will enjoy it for sure.
What type(s) of warbird do you fly? Cool to hear from someone who has hands on experience. I don't think my Cessna flying qualifies me to know if it feels real
I have the Brunner stick base, I was CP/G, my friend was the pilot, my stick was not following him, except when he did the force trim, my stick jumped to his new position in the Apache.