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I want  to know if anyone else has a problem with the airplane always pulling to the left?  Mine does and I started to accelerate slowly.  Sometimes I can get it up in the air and it still wants to go either left or right, and, I can't get a straight and leveled flight path.  Usually, I can only get the TrikeBike thing up.   Mods can you plese sticky this since I hae a short term memory and that way this won't be buried?

 I will post more later if you ask because after a couple sentences I lose it  at grammar since I suck at English.  :(

Here's what I can suggest.

Start your port side engine.
Rudder trim.
Aileron trim.
Calibrate your control interface.

If that doesn't work, I think there is a helpful article on setting control parameters that can be found from google.

It is normal in real life for prop engine aircraft to have left turning tendancies due to Torque, P-Factor, Spiraling Slipstream, and the Gyroscope effect.

If you go into the aircraft realism settings, you can change them...

This is not a subject for a sticky but for the correct advice that Esselbach has given

All prop aircraft pull in the direction opposite to the plane of rotation of their propellor.

There has been the occasional plane built with counter-rotating props, but for simplicity and economy its better to have transferable engines so nowadays almost all have props turning in the same direction.

The slower you are flying the greater the tendency so on the take off roll you have your foot planted on the opposite wheel and 'rudder', and on climb out its the rudder.

Most aircraft have the vertical fin displaced so that in normal cruise the forces are balanced.

It's normal and its good that the sim replicates the torque effect so well.

No sticky, just use the Learning Centre in FSX.

Hope you get it sorted. The ops cannot sticky every message in this way.  Easiest method for you is to copy the address above and post it as a textfile on your desktop, so you have your own sticky system.  Alternatively use sticky notes in Vista or look for the much better sticky notes for freeware release on the net, a simple search will find it-a brilliant and dead useful idea.  Heres this manual one to start you off.....

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1207270801

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