Trim not functional (AY210 / MSFS / C172)

Sent - tell me how this one feels.

happy to try it out as well if you need more testers - also a real life pilot, ga specifically

Send me an email please - [email protected].

I'm also trying to dial in trim but it is difficult with no background in aviation, and no conception of what trim should feel like.

I can definitely feel it on steep climbs and descents, especially when the plane is trimmed out in the opposite direction, but I must admit I struggle to feel the sensations when it comes to trying to dial in those final few hundred feet. I find when it comes to trimming for details rather than large changes in speed and attitude, that I'm back to trimming visually. Trimming the aircraft results in what feels like a pretty big "dead zone", where it's impossible to feel any resistance and, again, requires more "visual" trimming since the yoke doesn't seem to send me any subtle signals in this state. Is this how it is in real flight, or are my settings not configured properly?

I tuned trim forces to 100%. Using the 172

1.7 has major improvements to trim (and undoubtedly some bugs, this was a big change)

Let me know how this one feels.

Hi,

We already had some discussion by email, but to keep this thread fresh:

I wasn’t successful with the beta you sent me directly, but I ran another test with 1.7.1 / A2A’s Comanche / AY210 / stock profile, and it was near perfect 🤗

I still have some tests to do with other airplanes, and with the direct input to MSFS, which I think is the way to go. I’ll let you know.

Quick question: my understanding is that the “Trim relief” setting should be useless with direct MSFS input. Is that correct?

By the way, many thanks for the 1.7.1 fix, the stickiness was very noticeable for me. (The AY210 is a little sticky by design, and this time I thought it was completely wrecked 🙂)

Best

Yes, by the time you saw the beta, I had already moved past it. The stable versions are now well ahead of whatever beta I sent you.

and yes, the trim is much much better now. I have fundamentally reworked trim from the ground up, removed some prior assumptions and also am taking advantage of some new firmware features in the Moza bases. I believe that this is the correct way to do it now, and will continue to refine things.

Let me know how it goes.