Plane pitch axis

[Spude]

After looking for some gameplay in Youtube I have noticed many plane players have it so that they can gradually increase it. Now I've googled like hell went through the options and I cant figure it out myself.
How do you set it up so that it incrementally shifts the pitch axis and does not reset, constant tapping gets annoying.

[Dr. Fronkensteen]

Im not sure exactly what you're asking for, you want the plane to pitch up by itself?

That would be the pitch trim settings, but i think you have to turn instructor off for that.

[Spude]

Originally posted by Dr. Fronkensteen:

Im not sure exactly what you're asking for, you want the plane to pitch up by itself?

That would be the pitch trim settings, but i think you have to turn instructor off for that.

I mean, currently (I'm using mouse aim) if I want to manually pitch my plane I have to constantly tap, in my case W and S, to keep it going up/down when I'm flying horizontally.
What I'm asking and I've seen that players seem to be able to shift the pitch to say 15 degree climb and leave it at that.

[Smetrix]

That’s because they’re using the C key

[CalErba]

You have to edit the axis for that. Relative controls, relative steps blah blah, good luck. I never messed with it and probably never will...I use the camera to look around and only use the W, S, A, D, Q and E keys when I am engaged with enemy planes and dog fighting.

[MetalCh3]

Originally posted by Spud-Mann:

Originally posted by Dr. Fronkensteen:

Im not sure exactly what you're asking for, you want the plane to pitch up by itself?

That would be the pitch trim settings, but i think you have to turn instructor off for that.

I mean, currently (I'm using mouse aim) if I want to manually pitch my plane I have to constantly tap, in my case W and S, to keep it going up/down when I'm flying horizontally.
What I'm asking and I've seen that players seem to be able to shift the pitch to say 15 degree climb and leave it at that.

I have found a temporary fix to that problem and would love to see it solved and I would like to know how people do it in a more efficient way.

What I do is: I place my cursor and wait for plane to adjust to the cursor. When the plane is completely still on it's trajectory I press the "mouse activation, free look" button, C by default, and then use the pitch axis buttons. This way game thinks you're moving your mouse so it pitches up, using elevators.

This does not work if you don't press the C key.
This does not work if your plane's flight path is not completely aligned with where the mouse aims.

I think they made the game with joysticks in mind and the game is not perfectly adjusted for playing with a mouse like that. If anyone knows of a fix where we don't have to press C to adjust the pitch, let us know. I've messed around with all the axis options but couldn't figure out how.

[Scheneighnay]

It sounds like you're asking for elevator trim.
I don't think it's doable in mouse aim, but you can set it in sim controls.

[MetalCh3]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

It sounds like you're asking for elevator trim.
I don't think it's doable in mouse aim, but you can set it in sim controls.

I tested it some further with mouse aim but actually I was wrong, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work. A shame we don't have an option in Mouse aim