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I have a problem with FS9 that has me pulling my hair out. When applying power with any aircraft at any airport the AC immediately turns hard right heading off the runway. I can compensate by hard rudder left, but I don't want to fly this way. Uninstalled FS9 completely (inluding saved files and registry entry) 3 times, but the same problem is coming back to haunt me. Checked the Joystick by first disabling then checking the settings which appear to be fine. I suspect that there must be other file(s) that are not deleted when unistalling or possibly a hardware problem. This is the first problem I have encountered that has me stumped. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Pete

All prop aircraft have tourque.  This is cause by the propellers spinning one direction, making the aircraft want to turn the opposite way.  Also, single aircraft suffer from the air being pulled through the propeller and cork screwing around the fuselage and hitting the tail.  This also causes pulling to one direction.  Then if you add in crosswind you might have a severe pull.

Anyway, in real life you have to combat this by using opposite rudder to help keep your centerline.  Now perhaps in FS this is modeled too well and causing it to seem severe.  You can either edit the aircraft files, turn down the realism settings, or just use the full rudder to keep the centerline.

Heya PMartin,

Two more things to check:

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Not to be nitpicky or anything, but its not torque or p-factor.  That pulls your plane to the left, not the right.  What kind of joystick do you have?  Logitech has a LOOONG history of chronic problems using their joysticks in FS.  Try disabling autorudder, calibrating it about a million times, and try a takeoff using only the keyboard, with the joystick disabled.  If it still swings to the right, then its not a joystick problem.  If everything is fine, then you have yourself one very logitech-ish joystick.

Not to be nitpicky or anything, but its not torque or p-factor.  That pulls your plane to the left, not the right.  

Not necessarily true, there are aircraft that the prop spins opposite!