How the profiles are made
FFB-Bridge includes 1,600+ built-in profiles for 561 aircraft, and each one starts from published data about how the real controls feel. This page explains how a profile is matched to your aircraft, researched, documented and corrected.
The matching profile loads by itself
When an aircraft loads, FFB-Bridge reads its title and ICAO type code from the simulator and selects the matching profile. Add-on aircraft from developers such as PMDG, Fenix, iniBuilds and Hot Start have their own profiles. A profile you set as an aircraft’s default takes priority over the built-in choice.
- Reads the aircraft title and ICAO type code
- Add-ons from the major developers included
- Your own default takes priority
Built from published sources
Each profile starts from documents about the real aircraft: pilot operating handbooks, maintenance manuals, type certificate data sheets, flight test reports, pilot accounts and published control-force measurements. Speeds from those documents set when effects begin, and the force data sets how heavy the controls are and how pitch compares with roll. Where the research could not settle a question, the aircraft page lists it.
- Handbooks, manuals and type certificate data
- Flight test reports and pilot accounts
- Open questions listed on each page
Every setting, with its reason
Each aircraft page lists the complete built-in profile in the same order and with the same names as the Tuning page. Settings that rest on evidence cite their source, and the page records what changed between profile revisions. You can also download the starter profile as a file.
- Same names as the Tuning page
- Sources cited beside the settings
- Changes recorded for each revision
Each control system modelled its own way
Cable and pushrod controls load up with airspeed and G, and trim relieves the held force. Hydraulic systems with artificial feel keep the centering and soften the aerodynamic load. Airbus sidesticks use a constant spring with lighter roll and no engine or ground vibration, Boeing columns firm up with airspeed as their feel system does, and helicopters get force trim where the type has it, with rotor vibration based on each type’s rotor speed and blade count.
- Airbus sidestick: 0.5 daN breakout, 10 daN full pitch
- Boeing 737 feel pressure from 180 to 1,400 psi
- Rotor data from type certificates and flight manuals
Your profile stays yours
Catalogue revisions never change a profile you saved, or an aircraft you bound to one. If you fly the type and something reads wrong, you can send a correction from its aircraft page, and the maintainer reviews it against the cited sources. Profiles shared by other pilots live separately in the Profile Library.
- Updates never overwrite a saved profile
- Pilot corrections feed the next revision
- Community profiles in the Profile Library
Find your aircraft
Open the Aircraft Library to read how the profile for your aircraft was built, or browse profiles shared by other pilots in the Profile Library.