SimTrim: Useful for Honeycomb & Turtle Beach!

[Twelvefield]

"SimTrim" popped up on my feed, and I decided to check it out. It's a freeware app that fixes the usefulness of trim wheels. If you have a trim wheel, it's likely doing one of two things:

1) It works okay until you disengage autopilot, then trim tries to kill you by snapping to its maximum, or

2) You have to rag on the wheel a million times to make the trim needle move.

The former is a fault with the way MSFS reads analog trim wheels, like Turtle Beach, while the latter stems from MSFS improperly reading digital trim wheels like Honeycomb.

Back in FS20, Service Update 4 changed completely the way FS read trim wheel input. Before SU4, Asobo was committed to digital trim wheels, and frankly the trim was beautiful for Honeycomb back then. After SU4, Asobo committed to analog trim wheels, which were rare in the early 2020's. The switch obsoleted digital wheels, and never worked properly for analog ones either.

You can restore the functionality to a point with Axis & Ohs or SPAD.neXt, both of which work well, but both are also payware. SimTrim does the same thing, with the same limitations, but it's free and it's just intended for trim wheel users.

SimTrim is easy to use and set up, and while it runs while your sim is running, there is no restriction to when you activate it or deactivate it. You can also make sensitivity adjustments to trim as you fly, and ST remembers them from session to session. You never have to quit or even pause the sim to configure ST, which keeps running "on the fly". Also: no ads or extra stuff, just the app and the simple control.

It's a bit easier to set up for an analog trim wheel than a digital one, and there's easy tutorials you can follow. The digital setup relies on knowledge of the "radian" method of sim wheel inputs, which is what SPAD.neXt does as well. It's a little clumsy, but it's still an improvement.

Here's the link to the website:
https://makers-point.com/flight-sim-tools/simtrim.html#instructions

[MugHug]

TY for link.

[WF442]

Nice HU for those who needs it.
I have never had any problems with the trim wheel on my Honeycomb Bravo.

[Twelvefield]

Really? Wow. I don't know how you managed that. Perhaps you only fly certain planes. Certainly if you feel the trim wheel is okay, then you don't need the fix.