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Aileron trim limits

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In the SDK section for the aircraft.cfg file there is mention of an elevator_trim_limit parameter but no mention of a rudder_trim_limit or an aileron_trim_limit parameter. Having learned a long time ago not to trust the SDK docs, do these exist? The B-314 has an aileron trim limit of 12.5 degrees but the sim insists on giving KEY_AILERON_TRIM_LEFT/RIGHT/SET a maximum angle of ten degrees. I would have thought you should be able to set this in the .cfg file?
 
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Hi again :) , in this thread ....
As far as I know, the max. angles of the AileronTrim and Rudder-Trim are fixed values (in FSX).
That is: not changeable in the aircraft.cfg, and (maybe somebody knows for sure ?? ) not in the .air file too.

But you can highly change the influence of AileronTrim and RudderTrim on the flightmodel with
aileron_trim_effectiveness =
rudder_trim_effectiveness =
in the aircraft.cfg.

And that works perfect.

Cheers, Rob
 
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Thanks again Rob. So... a bit of mathematical kludgery is required to make the trim indicators appear to be in the 'correct' places.... :D
 
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DragonflightDesign said:
Thanks again Rob. So... a bit of mathematical kludgery is required to make the trim indicators appear to be in the 'correct' places.... :D
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Correct....
So if you know the real-life figures for max. AileronTrim and RudderTrim deflections, it would be best to re-work the value scale of (A:AILERON TRIM PCT,percent) and (A:RUDDER TRIM PCT,percent) from -100 to +100, to resp. -12.5 to +12.5 degrees and -?? to +?? degrees, for these trim indicator gauges.
 
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There is "rudder_trim_limit = 0 ; Rudder trim max deflection angle (absolute value) (DEGREES)"

No idea if it actually works.
 
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L3M0N said:
There is "rudder_trim_limit = 0 ; Rudder trim max deflection angle (absolute value) (DEGREES)"

No idea if it actually works.
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And you obtained that info from where? One of the SDKs? If so, which?
 
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L3M0N said:
There is "rudder_trim_limit = 0 ; Rudder trim max deflection angle (absolute value) (DEGREES)"

No idea if it actually works.
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Well, I do ... It doesn't work.
That is: tested in FSX-Accel.
I can't test it in any P3D version myself, but I highly doubt if it would work in P3D.

In FSX-Accel, I added
rudder_trim_limit = 30
in the [airplane_geometry] section of a few aircraft.cfg files.
But the result of reading (A:RUDDER TRIM,degrees) always results in a value between -10 and +10 max.
For whatever value of rudder_trim_limit = ...

And, as I expected, the same goes for adding aileron_trim_limit = ... to the aircraft.cfg: (A:AILERON TRIM,degrees) is always between -10 and + 10.
Hence my conclusion in post#2: it's fixed, and cannot be configured.

Again, I tested this in FSX-Accel, but I would be highly surprised if this feature is actually implemented differently in P3D.
Would be curious to know in which document you read "rudder_trim_limit = 0 ; Rudder trim max deflection angle (absolute value) (DEGREES)"
But even if you did, I'm still betting it won;t work in P3D.
Untill proven otherwise, of course ....:)

Rob
 
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In Hervé's document there's only reference to the elevator trim limit and it reads:

"Positive value, maximum pitch trim deflection. Up and down limits are
equal, different limits can be set via FSUIPC offsets."

Maybe FSUIPC could be used too in that case ?
 
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jcomm said:
In Hervé's document there's only reference to the elevator trim limit and it reads:

"Positive value, maximum pitch trim deflection. Up and down limits are
equal, different limits can be set via FSUIPC offsets."

Maybe FSUIPC could be used too in that case ?
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I don't think so.
FSUIPC uses SimConnect as interface, and it simply doesn't work in the core sim (unlike for pitch trim).
 
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WarpD said:
And you obtained that info from where? One of the SDKs? If so, which?
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By looking through the executable with a decompiler. There are quite a few things that don't appear in any flight model or SDK but I haven't tried most of them.
 
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