Pilot Archive
Thread: Joystick Sensitivity vs Dead Zone
Cereston wrote:
hrmm no that sounds about right, lowering joystick sensitivity increases the deadzone which is area where no movement is detected...
There is another adjustment for dead zone however. One would think since each can be adjusted independently then adjusting one should not affect the other.
Dead zone is best set to the smallest you can get away with.
It's used to compensate for weak springs or bad pots creating creating an off center value and thus movement even when the stick is centered.
Unless you joystick is on it's way out it should not be much of an issue.
Sensitivity - crank it up all the way and learn to fly that way.
If you are all over the place to start with don't worry, the extra capacity to respond fast and accurately is well worth a few wobbly flights.
Use small smooth movements and not wrenching side to side. It'll come so quick you'll soon find going back to lower sensitvityturns the ship into a slug on prozac.
Stuntie wrote:
Sensitivity - crank it up all the way and learn to fly that way.
If you are all over the place to start with don't worry, the extra capacity to respond fast and accurately is well worth a few wobbly flights.
Use small smooth movements and not wrenching side to side. It'll come so quick you'll soon find going back to lower sensitvityturns the ship into a slug on prozac.
I haven't experimented all that much, but I think in JTL specifically setting it completely senesetive might not be the best option. The reason for this being that the ship chassis have YPR acceleration numbers. So you might be having more senesativity in the joystick without the chassis actually being able to utilize it while costing yourself accuarcy from lower senesativity.
This is just a theory though, as I said I haven't played around with it much. From what you've experienced does that make any sense Suntie?