Dead Zone for controllers?

[jonfog]

Hi! I haven't figured out how to set up toe-brakes. For a slider controller like toe-brakes or throttle you would like to have a dead zone at the beginning or the end of the stroke, and be able to shape the curve.

Here the dead-zone is in the center of the stroke. Then new (whatever the called it) setting seems not to handle this, it just limits the range seen from the 50% mark.

DCS users will now what I'm talking about.

Funny that developers cannot see the strong points of other sims.

Another great thing in DCS is that you can press a joystick button and you will jump to any assigned command.

[sfojimbo]

The brakes are a major annoyance for me but I seem to have different problems from yours. I don't see a need for a dead zone, when I push on the brake I want that brake to activate right now; I also don't want a "curve" in braking power, linear would be fine with me if I could get that. The sensitivity settings for my Saitek pedals are overly complex IMO, I don't understand what half of them do.

 

As it is, the brakes on the light planes I fly in the sim are not very effective, I get about a quarter of the braking power I want. When I turn around on a runway I usually wind up making a big arc on the grass adjacent to the runway. In a real plane, stomping on a left or right brake while going slow will make the plane turn on a dime. Do it with any speed and you're in a ground loop.

 

Then there is the ever present huge major nuisance that whenever the plane stops, the parking brake energizes, making taxiing a juggling act where I don't dare to let the plane slow down too much or I'll be back fumbling with the buttons again.

[terrylawdinn]

Having similar fun trying to get the toe-brakes to work as IRL but I've only just got the pedals so still finding my way around them, (not least getting a good "working" position at my desk!) Make sure you're using the correct key-bindings as apparently there has been some messing about - mine got changed. On the T.Flight Hotas4 I use R-Axis Y- and X-

 

But I've never had the parking brake come on automatically, has anybody else? What aircraft are you flying?

[sfojimbo]

It's just me? The parking brake automatically comes on every time any aircraft comes to a stop for me.

I'll look around for a setting that's doing it since it doesn't happen to everyone.

 

The bindings are obvious, just operate the brakes while at the sensitivities screen.