Joystick setup tips

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Originally Posted by Ernst

Ok. It is avaible and you can use joystick adjusting settings. This way i ll agree it is not a cheating at all but in my opinion is unrealistic cause you could prevent or reduce aircraft unpleasant characteristics by adjusting joystick settings. You are adjusting aircraft behaviour to your own way of flight and how hard you use the stick.

In reality the pilot must adapt to the aircraft, not the aircraft (controls) do the pilot. Ok. Its a game.

Having flown real airplanes I can assure you we are missing all kinds of clues as to the status of flight and when a plane might depart as you approach the edge of the envelope. Sure some planes depart quite rapidly however, you should know it’s coming. You’re most likely being ham fisted and uncoordinated with the plane. This plays into your training as a pilot.

More importantly even though you can soften some of these tendencies via your joystick setup it doesn’t mean it’s a cheat. You would adjust to the situation as a pilot anyways. Also there isn’t any modeling of a person’s strength and their feel which is all part of controlling the plane towards its limits. We can’t model that with a game nor would I want it modeled. I bet if you actually performed some of the things we do in game you might have to change your underwear. How many times have you misjudged something and had a Midair or ran into the ground? We are doing things in the game that NORMAL people wouldn’t unless pressed in a life or death situation.

This purist idea of getting the game to be more like reality is a myth and not the design of a GAME. I can totally understand wanting realism but at some point this is nothing more than a game and ENTERTAINMENT software.