CESSNA CARDINAL CONTROL SENSITIVITY

[Kcchiefs9690]

hi,

us there a way to make the cardinal MUCH less sensitive to control inputs? I am having a huge problem controling it on the takeoff roll. It swerves everywhere!!! also, it is hard to keep flying straight with no turbululence!!!


Thanks,
Colin

[CHERN]

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID3/11597.html

:-wave

[Kiwi]

hi,
Go into config o matic and make sure the tick is removed for rudder.
If you dont use rudder pedals this box should be un ticked.
May help you.
Les

[nojwod]

at the risk of repeating pre-posted info... go into the aircraft.cfg file for the Cardinal, and in the flight tuning section you can reduce the rudder, aileron and elevator effectiveness, to suit your control setup. I don't bother setting the effectiveness/sensitivity in the setup of the sim anymore as it is better to set it up for each aircraft.

For instance here are my settings for the C177RG:

[flight_tuning]
cruise_lift_scalar=1.0
parasite_drag_scalar=1.0
induced_drag_scalar=1.0
elevator_effectiveness=0.9
aileron_effectiveness=0.7
rudder_effectiveness=0.9
pitch_stability=1.0
roll_stability=1.2
yaw_stability=1.0
elevator_trim_effectiveness=0.7
aileron_trim_effectiveness=1.0
rudder_trim_effectiveness=1.0

Hope this helps!

[Inter]

Nojwod, you is a star! I too, was having problems with handling the Cardinal, tried your settings, and it has transformed the handling!
Its the "icing on the cake"! :)

[nojwod]

glad to be of assistance!

i find with the ch yoke that most aircraft's roll rate is excessive, for instance the local flying school's C152 takes a full 6 seconds+ to go from 60 degrees left bank to 60 degrees right bank with full aileron deflection. The flight model as supplied accomplished the task in about 4 seconds as I recall. Reducing the aileron effectiveness to 0.7 and increasing the roll stability have reduced the discrepancy substantially.

It possibly takes a bit more yoke movement to set a bank angle now, but the way I look at it, the CH yoke resembles a Piper yoke, not a Cessna yoke, so trying to imitate the feel of the 152 through the yoke is never going to happen anyway!

John Dow
Canberra

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[Jeff S KDTW]

One note - make sure you don't make it too docile in roll. Cardinals are very snappy handlers when it comes to roll. They are nothing like a 172 or 182 in this regard.

[nojwod]

Affirmative re the snappy roll. With the above settings it still rolls about twice as quickly as the 152. Reckon that should be about right. Would love to hear from someone who gets to fly both and can do a test from 60 degrees one way to 60 degrees the other way.