Tweaking stability and cont effectiveness in FS

[John Kahn 1017333]

Are many people aware that you can fine tune the control behavior of your aircraft beyond the standard slider sensitivity settings? I like to fly the B58 in FS2002 for practice for my real IFR training, and even with the sensitivities set to minimum I find the pitch sensitivity to be way over done when using a joystick and the pitch stability to be marginal, near neutral with very little damping, very frustrating when trying to practice IFR procedures and not like any real airplane I've been in.

 

Then I stumbled on the config settings in the aircraft file, and reset pitch stability to 1.5 and pitch effectiveness to 0.8, both from the defaults of 1.0. Also reduced rudder and aileron authority to about 0.8. Wonderful! Now the B58 has pitch behavior and stablity much closer to a real a/c and is a pleasure to use with a joystick. You can open the file with Notepad, tweak the numbers and try it to see what works best.