i have my aileron (sp?) trim set to s and d for left and right, and they dont want to change when i push them. i dont get it because my elevator trim works fine. and thats mapped q and a for up and down. I just got 1946 the other day, ive been playing the demo for a couple months though lol, and it always worked fine on the demo. How can i make it work?

What plane you are useing for ? All of them didn't have a aileron trim, but you already know that ? If you know that she has the aileron trim, then you have some programing problem, just try to change them to the other buttons.

Good luck.

i didnt know that actually haha, but i ussually use bf109, la7 or fw190 and none of those can be adjusted. if you cant trim it is there any way to account for the annoying spin from the engine torque?

Torque is corrected by using the rudder, or yaw, trim.

In aircraft that don't have trim tabs for the rudder, e.g. the Bf-109, you will need to keep your foot on the rudder (wrist-twisted, whichever) while flying.

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when I see people talking like Brando above, I get confuse.

I renember of flying perfectly and don't have needed of stay pulling the plane rudder to make it fligth straigth.

even with planes who don't have rudder trim, like the BF-109.

people here already told me many times that is my joystick the problem.

anyway, I see this and stay confuse.

the fact is that I perfectly renember.

thats kinda dumb, why would they make a plane without trim if you have to keep your stick held to the side the entire time? that gets annoying to me, it seems like it would have been even more annoying to real pilots

The 109 is trimmed to fly straight at cruise speeds I think.

Wildnoob, I have no idea how you do that :P when I try fly a 109 I have to compensate for the lack of trim.

@ Wildnoob...The reason you can remember flying without having to pull the rudder is because before patch 4.01 torque was not properly modelled. When I first installed 4.01 and tried to take off, my plane shot off the left hand side of the runway . So you are correct, there was a time when this did not happen, but after 4.01 it started to happen. Patch 4.01 gave us a more accurate flight model.

@ Chevy...The aircraft which don't have a trim control in the cockpit were, I believe, trimmed by the ground crew before take off. If you look at the tail section of the 109 or 190 you will see little red tabs. These were adjusted, presumably for cruise speed, before take off.

With the 190 it is possible to find the "sweet speed" were the plane flys, pretty much, in a straight line, with no trim or stick input (well, not much stick input). I think it's about 290/320 km/h.

EDIT: yeah, what Sirrith said.

Oh, and Chevy, the Demo was a much older flight model, so that's probably why it worked on that.

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Originally posted by Chevy350:
thats kinda dumb, why would they make a plane without trim if you have to keep your stick held to the side the entire time? that gets annoying to me, it seems like it would have been even more annoying to real pilots

Allied pilots who tested captured 109s DID report the lack of rudder trim as being annoying - probably because their Spit's and Hurri's were equipped with manual, in-cockpit trim. Axis pilots were not so bothered, as they were used to keeping their boot on the rudder bar. It's what you're used to.

Remember that lower revs reduce torque and make the a/c more stable in flight. As mentioned, there was a pre-set trim tab set up before take off, so it ain't all that much of an effort to fly straight, as long as you remember the need to add some rudder deflection during high-speed manoeuvres, t/o and landing.

Remember that ailerons are not used to correct torque but roll. Some aircraft require aileron trim to fly level, but most do pretty well without it. Aileron trim is handy if you cop damage to one wing and find yourself flying 'one wing low' - but it's not useful for counteracting torque.

cheers

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alright thanks guys