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Pilotguy Oct 13, 2020 @ 11:16am
Sensitivity
Hello, so we all know the stupid sensitivity issues when rotating and flaring, especially in the A320. Can anyone share their sensitivity settings for the A320? I have been tinkering with them, but cannot find a happy medium.
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Maki Nishikino Oct 13, 2020 @ 11:22am 
Hello, sorry I can't help you with the A320 as I don't fly it but given this problem is universal I set my joystick to -80 (note negative) for pitch, roll and yaw and keep it at 0 for throttle. Seems to work alright.
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Pilotguy Oct 13, 2020 @ 11:35am 
Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:
Hello, sorry I can't help you with the A320 as I don't fly it but given this problem is universal I set my joystick to -80 (note negative) for pitch, roll and yaw and keep it at 0 for throttle. Seems to work alright.
Deadzones at 0?
Maki Nishikino Oct 13, 2020 @ 11:37am 
Originally posted by Pilotguy:
Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:
Hello, sorry I can't help you with the A320 as I don't fly it but given this problem is universal I set my joystick to -80 (note negative) for pitch, roll and yaw and keep it at 0 for throttle. Seems to work alright.
Deadzones at 0?

Yeah. I did use a bit of a deadzone before but brought it back to 0.
Last edited by Maki Nishikino; Oct 13, 2020 @ 11:37am
Crunchmeister Oct 13, 2020 @ 11:42am 
Originally posted by Pilotguy:
Deadzones at 0?

I set my sensitivity for my stick (don't have a yoke) to -80, and have a dead zone of 5. That makes things far more controllable and eliminates any unwanted drift.

How much to set it really depends on your hardware though. The best you can do is experiment.

In any case, it's something in the game that's fundamentally flawed and needs to be addressed. All we're doing is trying to compensate for issues in the sim, and we'll likely never get it perfect until Asobo fix it. We need controls to be less sensitive while remaining linear. The sensitivity adjustment removes that linearity. It's a stopgap solution at best, but it can improve the experience a bit.

In the end, the A320 is still broken as ♥♥♥♥, and nothing we can do as end users will ever fix that. We have to depend on either Asobo or modders for that.
Maki Nishikino Oct 13, 2020 @ 11:44am 
When it comes to the flare the controls are just way too response resulting in awful landings, there is just too much authority at those slower speeds.
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Trentscousin Oct 13, 2020 @ 12:37pm 
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Originally posted by Pilotguy:
Deadzones at 0?

I set my sensitivity for my stick (don't have a yoke) to -80, and have a dead zone of 5. That makes things far more controllable and eliminates any unwanted drift.

How much to set it really depends on your hardware though. The best you can do is experiment.

In any case, it's something in the game that's fundamentally flawed and needs to be addressed. All we're doing is trying to compensate for issues in the sim, and we'll likely never get it perfect until Asobo fix it. We need controls to be less sensitive while remaining linear. The sensitivity adjustment removes that linearity. It's a stopgap solution at best, but it can improve the experience a bit.

In the end, the A320 is still broken as ♥♥♥♥, and nothing we can do as end users will ever fix that. We have to depend on either Asobo or modders for that.


Had to copy ^^^^^^ would not let me quote you.

I thought it was just me but the A30 (for me) is either full throttle or off.
Last edited by Trentscousin; Oct 13, 2020 @ 12:38pm
Crunchmeister Oct 13, 2020 @ 12:42pm 
I'm not really an airliner guy. I prefer smaller planes to be honest. But it's well known the A320 is broken for most folks. A few manage to get it working, it seems, but for most, it's anything from small bugs that make it annoying or difficult, to large ones that make it impossible to fly.

My personal experience with the A320 comes from less than a dozen flights, and it's never worked right. Any problem I've encountered in other planes is magnified 100x over with the A320.

In contrast, my son flies it all the time and only has encountered minor issues with it. We've compared it, and he can definitely confirm that for me it's basically unflyable compared to on his system.
Thogmar Oct 13, 2020 @ 1:29pm 
Nope. Just took up some aircraft and tested with controller (needed LS curves at 50 and a little deadzone), Joystick (Hotas X), and a Honeycomb yoke and a bunch of them including the A320 were perfectly easy to land (for a multi-decade pilot - can't be responsible for new students).

NOWHERE near "resulting in awful landings". Not even close.

Is it rivet perfect to some kind of specs? Dunno, don't care for the most part, they function fine and third parties will work to appease the rivet counters.

As far as the A320 itself, the argument "some users have small annoying bugs, to large ones that make it "impossible to fly" is just a nonsense argument from a logic stand point. It can't be both - It either has some small bugs or it's a disaster. I flew it twice today on two full short ILS flights and it performed just fine including assignment of last minute approaches from ATC (which was stupid in other ways).
It has small annoyances that are being gradually patched out to the level of a default level aircraft. A third party is basing a very popular mod on it, and many are enjoying it.

Not "fanboying", if you don't like the sim, I don't care, but there is no general "OMG sensitivity" issue that makes all the aircraft difficult to land.
Maki Nishikino Oct 13, 2020 @ 1:39pm 
Trim the Cessna 152 for a variety of airspeeds including 55 knots and note the pitch authority, that is what I'm getting at. You can even get loads of it at virtually no airspeed.
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Trentscousin Oct 13, 2020 @ 3:16pm 
Originally posted by Thogmar:
Nope. Just took up some aircraft and tested with controller (needed LS curves at 50 and a little deadzone), Joystick (Hotas X), and a Honeycomb yoke and a bunch of them including the A320 were perfectly easy to land (for a multi-decade pilot - can't be responsible for new students).

NOWHERE near "resulting in awful landings". Not even close.

Is it rivet perfect to some kind of specs? Dunno, don't care for the most part, they function fine and third parties will work to appease the rivet counters.

As far as the A320 itself, the argument "some users have small annoying bugs, to large ones that make it "impossible to fly" is just a nonsense argument from a logic stand point. It can't be both - It either has some small bugs or it's a disaster. I flew it twice today on two full short ILS flights and it performed just fine including assignment of last minute approaches from ATC (which was stupid in other ways).
It has small annoyances that are being gradually patched out to the level of a default level aircraft. A third party is basing a very popular mod on it, and many are enjoying it.

Not "fanboying", if you don't like the sim, I don't care, but there is no general "OMG sensitivity" issue that makes all the aircraft difficult to land.


I hit the button to lower engine speed, it goes from full to zero, (been flying since Kittyhawk). So your lack of responsibility is unneeded.
Crunchmeister Oct 13, 2020 @ 5:17pm 
Originally posted by Thogmar:
As far as the A320 itself, the argument "some users have small annoying bugs, to large ones that make it "impossible to fly" is just a nonsense argument from a logic stand point. It can't be both -

Whether or not you choose to believe something or not doesn't make it any less true.

My son who flies the A320 regularly on his PC tried on my PC and the plane is unflyable. It does all kinds of crazy stuff, lurches to the sides without input, dives, or a plethora of other stuff that it wasn't told to do. You're lucky to get it off the ground at all, and even luckier to keep it in the air.

I can fly it just fine on his PC though. It seems to do what it's told for the most part, and aside from some AP bugs, it seems to work as intended. Others have reported the same issues with the A320. It seems to be a minority, but it doesn't mean because you're not experiencing an issue that others aren't

Personally, I don't give a rat's ass about the A320 and I can't be arsed to try to diagnose it because I have zero desire to fly airliners. But the problem is indeed there. The GA aircraft work pretty well for the most part and that's what I like to fly. The airliner issue has no impact on my enjoyment of the sim.


EDIT:

My son also brought his HOTAS (a T-Flight which I gave to him when I got my new X56 a couple of weeks ago) and we connected it to my computer for him to try. Checked sensitivity settings and such to ensure it matched his settings. My HOTAS or his, the A320 was unflyable.
Last edited by Crunchmeister; Oct 14, 2020 @ 10:00am
carnie2 Oct 13, 2020 @ 7:00pm 
Originally posted by Crunchmeister:

My son who flies the A320 regularly on his PC tried on my PC and the plane is unflyable. It does all kinds of crazy stuff, lurches to the sides without input, dives, or a plethora of other stuff that it wasn't told to do. You're lucky to get it off the ground at all, and even luckier to keep it in the air.

I can fly it just fine on his PC though. It seems t

The sensivity of flight simulators depends very much on your framerate. Higher framerate gives more controll = less sensivity.
Crunchmeister Oct 13, 2020 @ 7:56pm 
Originally posted by carnie2:
Originally posted by Crunchmeister:

My son who flies the A320 regularly on his PC tried on my PC and the plane is unflyable. It does all kinds of crazy stuff, lurches to the sides without input, dives, or a plethora of other stuff that it wasn't told to do. You're lucky to get it off the ground at all, and even luckier to keep it in the air.

I can fly it just fine on his PC though. It seems t

The sensivity of flight simulators depends very much on your framerate. Higher framerate gives more controll = less sensivity.

I have a Ryzen 2700x, 32GB and RTX2080
My son has a Ryzen 3800X, 32GB and GTX 1070

In terms of fps, I get a bit higher than he does, although not a whole lot. In any case, we can both maintain 30+ fps in all but the busiest areas. There's nothing here hardware-wise that would make for such a discrepancy in flying experience between his PC and mine when all other planes work just fine. Especially since I have the faster machine in terms of fps.
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