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Originally Posted by BigDaddyAB
Guess I'll be starting with a controll pad. Cant believe that my flying skill would suffer that much without a stick. But then again depends on hoe difficult the simm really is. But never really needed a stick unless using a lot of radar controlls and missle selects.
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For a simulator a pad will be hard to fly without a ton of filtering .
Think about it, your moving a 2ft long control column with a 1cm long stick with maybe 2cm of deflection.
If you move that stick from centre to lock your moving the entire control surface's range of movement quicker than any pilot could move it and with no feedback (at 300mph most WW2 fighter control columns will need 20lbs to 40lbs of pressure to move the ailerons or elevator) which in any WW2 plane will cause a stall if not a spin. This is the problem of making a sim work with a control pad.
Even doing that on a 1ft long flight stick (try it out in IL2, you'll stall a plane most of the time ramming the stick from lock to lock) will still cause problems but at least the range of defelction you have with a stick means you can make gradual and more controlled movements and filtering and stick settings are able to be used to make a meaningful effect.
07-08-2009, 10:18 AM
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