Pretty happy with my ghetto 2x4 + plywood modified Virpil desk mount. I recently replaced the adjustable furniture legs I was using (because they were wobbly) with a small plywood pedestal which is secured to the floor with 3m micro suction βtapeβ.
Pretty easy to disconnect from the desk and pop it off the floor if needed.
@walmis How hard would it be to add a second dial to control each motor separately? I have the factory assembled version. Sometimes I feel the pitch forces are weaker than aileron forces, I have modified the graph and that helped somehow but having a dial would be a lot easier.
What is the "Machined Aluminum Grip Mount Upgrade for Rhino, Anodized, Black - 49β¬+VAT" on the order form? is it needed for TMWH compatible grips and extensions?
Hey Moto! For warbirds a lot of the time the ailerons would stiffen up more than the pitch control, since pulleys and bobweights were more optimized for such. So the difference between the two in this case for WW2 is I think generally ok, without pulling out a calculator
True, but still think pitch control could be a bit stiffer than it is, specially the initial pull which is too soft, compared to how stiff roll is represented in FFB, which I think its really well modeled. This is how it feels IRL in the warbird I fly.
Thats great news! I mean I just like making a little fuss about it, I actually dont mind waiting that much for a single reason of where the fuck else are you gonna find a kit like this
I was LITERALLY about to ask if the machined adapter adds delay to ordering ffb kits......when tracking number popped up in my inbox the very minute I was about to hit send LOL
There are two other well known FFB projects. Maybe 3 so you should take a look at them all and see whatβs best.
There is the Brunner, The FFB Beast and the OpenFFB project?
Anyway I think of it like the early days IPhone vs Android thing..
Yes they are both βtouch screen phonesβ. Yes they are both fast hardware.
No they are NOT the same. Why?
Just like the first IPhone was very intuitive⦠natural to use because of its IOS interface the Rhino software is the true star of the show.
Itβs constantly updated with new feature sets being added or developed/discussed.
Itβs βnatural and intuitiveβ to use.. Unlike some of the HOTAS software the Rhino software is on one part complex and on one part very simple.. = Easy to use and understand.
So itβs not the Hardware because anyone can add some motors to some pulleys and with enough time figure out some code..
Itβs honestly the match between the two (same as the birth of the first iPhone) and how they just βworkβ because of the software/hardware interface.
Thatβs why Rhino is king and will emerge as the king from this era.
Anyone whoβs ever dealt with difficult to use software can attest to the fact that youβll spend more time setting up than flyingβ¦ The iPhone and the Rhino arenβt like that because they just βworkedβ (and thatβs because of the software not the hardware)
The mere fact that Rhino was the very first I came across while searching for it says enough. Same with phones as you said. Everyone knows Iphone for a reason and not Oppo or something like that. Brunner Ice heard about but meh, didnt fancy it for some reason and the fact that every single person I asled said go with Rhino. Software itself is 70% of the product since as you said everyone can put the hardware together but to make it work and communicate as it should, thats the main issue
Speaking of difficult software, i have almost 25 years of experience with conputers, building, support, etc, even wrote some very jank custom solutions at some point. But the esrly virpil software was a headache, i bricked the firmware on my throttle at least five times before I figured how to do it the correct way, fortunately it defaulted into bootloader and you can try again.
The FFbeast crowd likes to say that it is Rhino-but-better, but while there is truth to that statement I don't think it's going any further until they make something on par with telemffb
I hate to sound like a fan boy but yeahβ¦ you hit the nail on the head and none of them will ever truly compete until they can get some sort of Telem stuff figured out AND they can out push updates because Rhino also keeps getting better and pushing its own bar even furtherβ¦
So itβs always a great discussion but yeah thatβs why I chose to ride a Rhino.
funny thing to me is the lack of Estop on ffbeast - there was a whole forum discussion on it being "overkill" on rhino, but if there ever was a base that needed one I'd think it would be the 35Nm one
Hi! The other day I was in the F14. Engines shut down, drained the hydraulics pressure for the flight controls. I was expecting to feel some difference in the pressure I need to put in to Move the flights controls. However, after hydraulics pressure gone, there was no change in how the stick felt moving the surfaces around. Iβve already posted on F14 forum, but just wondering if this is correct behaviour, F14 bug, or something that can be done on the software side ?
Someone will likely correct me on technicalities, but I do not believe the F-14 (or any fixed wing aircraft I know of) controls work that way. Unlike a helicopter where the control column is hydraulicly boosted (and becomes difficult to manipulate without hydraulic pressure), the stick only manipulate hydraulic actuators which in turn manipulate the control surfaces. So the loss of pressure would result in reduced or zero control effectiveness.. but you would not feel it in the stick.
That said, even if I am wrong, it is not modeled for any aircraft in DCS.
As Kowalsky pointed out, there is a (still experimental) feature in TelemFFB, mostly meant for the helo's that can increase the dampen/friction forces below a certain hydraulic pressure threshold. But its somewhat complicated to set up because of the normal way we have our dampen/friction/inertia configurations setup. You can read about it in the TelemFFB manual.