throttle feels totaly off?

[SkyHogRC]

Hey there, i fly FPV in rl nearly every day and i got to say that this throttle feeling is by far not like in real flights (playing with expo and mid throttle dindt fix that).....Also comming from real flying and compare it to "liftoff" it feels not right to me (i think thats mostly caused by throttle and over all it feel really "floaty" and not sharp enough). I know the weight of a Racer3 and fly different racers in rl so i allow myself to say that racer3 flight characteristics are wrong and far away from reality. Since it is a simulator i think its important to share my opinion about the feeling as a rl pilot :) Its really hard to fly the sim even with month of FPV experience so i would love to see some improvements there :)
But a lot of good stuff also, i love the music you guys build in there and the grafiks still really nice and is fun to fly :)
Keep up the great work!
Greetings

[Skip Rogers]

Hi Badaboom,

Thank you for sharing your feedback. So with regard to your opinion on the Racer3 and your previous experience the only thing I can say to that is, that without actually having hands on experience with this specific drone, your expectations will not be accurate. As stated before the dev team's pilots, with hands on time flying the Racer3 say that the experience in the sim is similar to real life.

Can you share with me more information about your experience with throttle? What was your action, what did you expect to happen and what actually happened? Are you still using the FS T6?

Have you spent your time primarily racing or freestyle flying? Also have you flown any of the other drones that are available? These are modeled from real world drones, that are similar to what you would have flown. If you haven't, please do try them out, and if you have, can you share with me what your thoughts are on those drones and the accuracy of their representations in the sim? I would definitely like to hear your feedback about these drones as well.

Thanks again, I hope to hear from you soon.

[Scotty]

Id like to add to this, if you load into a map with pro mode and racer3, gain a little height and get yourself into a stable hover you can feel what the original poster means.

When you are in the hover it kind of locks you into it, to gain height or loose height, you have to do a massive range of motion with the stick. Sort of like there is a hover deadzone built in.

Its the best i can try and describe it for you and a way to possibly pin point it. it did it on my old fs-i6 and also now qx7.

Edit: land on flat ground and get into a hover that way by just throttling up :)

[SkyHogRC]

I dont know how i can expain this, the throttle feels like i fly on the moon. If i fly in rl and do some fast throllte punches and cuts it will go up down up down fast and feel resonsive and i miss that in the sim. I need ways too much throttle changes all the time, no matter its racing or freestyle, drl sim got a lot of freestyle elements to i think. Anyway hard to get use of it, will buy the full game and test the other drones as well :)

Greetings

[Skip Rogers]

Thank you both for your feedback. The team will be hearing all of this.

@Badaboom I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the other drones.

@Flush do you think this might be corrected if you had a more robust Betaflight control panel?

Thanks again, to the both of you.

[SkyHogRC]

i did fly some more yesterday and over all physics are really nice its only 2 things with the racer3, i flew 25 degree and on full throttle it was hard to not crash in the ground so it maybe need more top end power and that gives also more "pop" witch is the second thing pop up is to slow and feel like limited power and decent is a bit too floaty specally throttle cut got to drop really fast with that weight of 1.3 kilo gramms :) If that two things will get better i will race this sim a lot over the winter haha :D in the old sim we could ajust power and weight i thing and both things was improove the things i talked about, maybe put that back in if that is possible?
Greetings

[Scotty]

I dont know if tweaks to betaflight would do anything or not, Im just dabbling in drone flying trying to 'git gud'.

Isnt an issue to me though, I dont fluctuate the throttle much, generally full throttle or momentary no throttle from watching/learning from others.

I saw this thread and seen reviews where others have said similar things about issues with the throttle and I accidently found that test thing I did and mentioned above where it feels something is slightly off, so I thought id share my findings

[Scotty]

I think i miss understood your question about betaflight, its something fundermental wiht the physics.

It something anyone can do and see specifically what I mean with a 10 second test.

Load up any map with the racer3 (any drone for that matter), move off the launch pad and land on flat ground. Now just throttle up and down using something to your sides for reference of your height (like the high containers in gates of hell shipyard area or a wall on other maps) and see the results of you being able to get the drone to lock into a perfect stable hover too easily with massive play in the throttle where you can move the stick about 1/3 of its range of motion with it having no impact on the drone increasing or decreasing in height.

Load up the game jlguerrero and anyone else for that matter and do it, youll see straight away what i mean :)

Edit: the reason for this will proabably be the knock on effect/bug of why people say the throttle is unresponsive in normal flight

[Skip Rogers]

Hey Flush,

Thanks for the feedback, if you have any more thoughts please share continue to share them with the team.

[SkyHogRC]

I agree you Flush, you found good words to explain it hehe :) But the sim is still a lot of fun, i go fly it now :D with a lot of throttle work it still feel not bad too me and makes a lot of fun playing hehe :)
Greetings

[SkyHogRC]

@jlguerrero
I got the full game license now and played it some days now, i think the "mifune" feels way better then the racer 3 or any other and i really started enjoy the DRL Sim now :) The new maps are look great and remember me to the time i sit in front of TV and watched the guys racing there, great job :) Great challange hehe ^^
greetings and "happy flying"

[Skip Rogers]

Hi Badaboom,

Thanks for letting me know. I will share your feedback with the team. They will be happy to hear that.

Happy flying!