It's sandwich structure: 12mm steel rod, 3d printed tube with 7mm thick walls (100% infil) and then toebrakes part that took test of time (1year without issue)
As for collective vs throttle itself (excl. FFB): A decent throttle can absolutely work, but a collective can be significantly nicer. Both in terms of immersion, as well as actual use.
Non-extension vs extension joystick is relatively similar in that aspect. The extra throw can make certain movements easier and more precise. On the other hand, it will be less quick at going 0 -> 100%, and vice versa.
Try adding some dampening to see if you can tame it down. I also recommend setting the turbulence setting in MSFS to low... their "realistic" setting is totally over cooked.
You cant, but why would you want to? All that circle is is an indication where the current spring center is. What I mean is that the center of that circle is the "spring center". The size of the circle is not indicative of anything.
FFB pedals perhaps can also give you more max force over regular spring pedals, (while maintaining smoothness), which is ideal for realism. And theoretically, it can simulate aircraft that have pedal shaker for stall warning, like the F14
Depending on which you are building. The crosswind mod isn‘t build for maximum force actually. The force is comparable to its sprung loaded original - at least I recommend to set it up that way. (max theoretical pedal force is around 10kg).
No, I don’t think the implementation is sophisticated enough for that. You have increasing resistance with airspeed, that’s about it. At least that is my perception.
Ah thats a bummer. I love how the Rhino has really allowed me to feel the limits of control when flying. Like I rarely ever stall the P51 anymore because the stick is just giving me all the info I need.
Coordinated flight is still one thing though, were I have no idea how I'm doing. I just have to stare at a ball on the screen to get any indication of what's going on.... If FFB pedals could also make me understand by feel what's happening with the aircraft, it'd easily move them up to the next upgrade for my kit.
even in most real [light GA props] aircraft you dont feel if you are coordinated in the rudder pedals. you feel most of the coordination in your butt and to a much lesser extent your sight picture. you will feel the effects of torque/p factor/propwash and such in the pedals though.
Ah, well I've got no real flight experience to compare to, nor am I necessarily tying to get the most realistic feel... I've just had my eyes opened to the fact that the Rhino sick can help me understand how the aircraft is performing simply by feel... and sideslip is one aspect where I just can't feel it.
If it is, as you say, felt in the butt, not the pedals, maybe what I need is to invest in some buttkickers?
Buttkicker can only do haptic effects that are more or less unrealistic and just a stand-in to give some kind of feedback. What you need for coordinated flight is acceleration. (6dof would be optimal)
Loss of control is still a leading cause of aircraft accidents. Pilots don't have good stick and rudder skills, as a rule. But what can we do? A lot of us have read about or heard about "seat of your pants" flying skills but don't really know what that means or how to get good at it. What worse? It can be very hard to feel the airplane in many m...
Oh cool, thanks. That was really instructive actually watching his nose move on the hard banks. I might try this exercise, see if I can recreate it, though I don't know if I'll get much out of it tying it in a sim.
How many times have you heard your instructor say, "DON'T use right rudder?" - probably not that often haha. Anyway, here is one time you will hear me say it. Make sure you're not making this very common error. Fly Your Best!
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ideally the simulator makers would also provide all the FFB stuff, because they have the best data available for the plane or whatever they just modeled
yes and it's a very reasonable question, it's just that recently there has understandably been a lot of new people interested in FFB and the question pops up from time to time
the technology is just amazing, but the reality is that there is still work to do for the sim makers as well as hardware vendors and software heroes such as telemFFB before the potential is fully realized
yeah what makes or breaks a good control loaded setup is the software. telemffb seems to be bhe most capable software out there. I havent used Brunners CSL software but i would suspect its close but doesnt have the ear of the 'gaming/simming' community like telemffb does. Not to mention the cost
Ive had my Rhino for 3 days but have been following the progress for a while. I am a pilot for fun irl and professionally a software guy so i really enjoy and appreciate the capabilities that telemffb provides. I must say that after only 3 days of ownership im already planning on either modding my slaw viper rx pedals or building a custom set for control loading. I also have an old PFC yoke that is built like a tank that might make a good testbed for control loaded yoke
okay , it's because there is no dead zone I thought having a larger circle would increase the dead zone and stop helicopter AP being triggered to going off. , Hmmm Cheers.
Which heli is giving you trouble? There's no deadzone but you shouldn't need one if you've got things set up so your stick properly centers in the "center circle" when hands off. Use Balance Spring and Adaptive Recentering