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hi guys,

time to help me... what do i have to change in my aircraft.cfg file to feel more force feedback on touch down. i have a FF Sidewinder2 but when i land a 744, i don't feel enough...

is it possible to make this happen? if yes, please give me the lines i have to add or change in my cfg file.

thanks

Oepne your aircraft.cfg (having backed it up) with notepad, scroll to the bottom and you should find this section:

[forcefeedback]
gear_bump_nose_magnitude=3000

Well, I have the FF2 joystick, and it bearly has a bump when you touch down, I mean on landing that beast of a 747, you should feel more than a little jolt, don't you all agree?  And as for the bloody cessna, after flying my hand is still vibrating pretty strongly!!!  After taking it off the joystick, cause it shakes so bloody much on the takeoff and landing roll, as if you were landing on a bloody runway with 20 inch stones all over the place!

Ah well, it's better than no FF, when the joystick is so loose that you have to estimate where the centre of the joystick really is all the time without the stick pulling you to the centre all the time like normal joysticks.

Cheers,
Greg

 :D If I remember correctly from my old flying days, at, or just before touchdown you are at a stall condition so there will be less back pressure on the stick.  At a stall there is minimum pressure on the controlls cause you have lost lift and momentarily you have very little control except you start to glide like a rock.  For those of you that have not actually flown yourselves, a stall is quite a sensation as the plane drops out from under you, especially in an ultralight with no cockpit.  Sort of like  ;D :-/   Just my 2 cents.
Bud  

true, but you must at least feel a bit of the wheels touching the ground and taking over the enormous weight of the plane.

Why would you feel the touchdown on the stick?  The stick works the control surfaces and has nothing to do with the landing gear or brakes.
Bud

Well, I managed to land the C172 all by myself with my instructor talking me through it, in my second flight in a cessna!

I have the MS FF2 and find it really great.  I have not had to change the config since I bought it, so I aint gonna piss around with it now.  I find it is different with every aircraft and have experimented with the a/c config file to try and settle down some "bronco busters".  Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but it is fun to play around with it.  Taxiing gets kinda rough sometimes on a dirt runway, and yes, it can get rough with a light plane on concrete/asphalt runway, in cases like that I just pull my finger away from the sensor on the stick and lots of time do finger tip flying using the bottom of the stick instead of grippin' a sweaty stick  lol But experimenting is the key I guess, depends what one likes
Splash