Plane turning to the right while standing on ground

[thomasruffley]

Hi

I've just loaded my Battle of Stalingrad on Windows 10 with a Black Widow Speedlink controller.  Cannot take off at all because the plane keeps turning in a circle while it is standing on the ground so I compensate by pressing on the left rudder and then when I take any pressure off the rudder it quickly reverts to the right and crashes.  So I haven't got in the air yet.  Please can anyone help.

Tom

[coconut]

1. Check your key mapping has not assigned multiple conflicting axes to the rudder axis

2. Depending on the aircraft, excessive engine torque can lead to difficulties in taxiing, forcing you to use rudder and brakes to go straight. It takes a bit of practicing before getting comfortable with taxiing.

Which aircraft are you having difficulties with? With Russian aircraft, try the yak or the il2. With the Germans, try with the bf109 (f4 or g2). The pe2 (Russians) or he111 (Germans) are pretty easy too when lightly loaded.

[Urra]

Try to adjust elevator trim down to 50-75 percent down before take off. I think this happens because trim is all the way up.

[gabuzomeu]

If you use expert difficulty, the torque effect depends on the assigned propeller speed: put it to max rpm/ fine, and increase progressively. Iirc lagg is the worse,

[=EXPEND=Tripwire]

 

 

1. Check your key mapping has not assigned multiple conflicting axes to the rudder axis

 

This in particular stuffed me around when I first got my rudder pedals. I didn't realise the twist stick was still bound to rudder and did not notice I was making fine rudder input on takeoff with the twist stick overriding the pedals. A few wrecked takeoffs and I had it figured out and removed the twist stick mapping.

[thomasruffley]

Thanks a lot for all your suggestions.  Unfortunately I don't understand what I'm looking for in the settings.  I am using the Russian plane and it just turns around while standing on the ground without me touching anything.  I am getting on OK with the missions where the plane is already in the air.  As you can guess I'm new to all this and I probably need a "Dummies" book.

Tom

[Bando]

Dummies book?

 

Here's something better:

http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/16752-il-2bos-user-manual-released-first-edition-english/

[Dakpilot]

A good intro to ground handling here, also check out part 1.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwDXeys5yY

 

All of Requiems vids are a great resource for leaning the basics, and loads of good tips for advanced users as well

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/RequiemBoS/videos

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[TP_Jacko]

Thanks a lot for all your suggestions.  Unfortunately I don't understand what I'm looking for in the settings.  I am using the Russian plane and it just turns around while standing on the ground without me touching anything.  I am getting on OK with the missions where the plane is already in the air.  As you can guess I'm new to all this and I probably need a "Dummies" book.

Tom

 

When you start the mission is your engine on or off.

Sometimes when you first start  the throttle is set to 100% by the game you needed to move the throttle for the controller to be recognised.

[thomasruffley]

I'm Flying

Thanks everyone, especially the links to YouTube.  It's a fantastic learning curve and I've still got a way to go but at least I'm up in the air.

Chocks away

Tom