Trouble with Trim

[redboot]

I'm brand new to IL-2 (though not to flight sims).   In setting my controls for my first plane (the Yak 1 ser. 69), I can't get the trim to work.  I'm mapping it to my joystick top hat as per usual.  The control hardware clearly works, as it was originally mapped to pilot head motion and was fine.  Is it possible the Yak 1 just didn’t have trim controls?  That would surprise me, but I can't otherwise figure out why the control is unresponsive.  Any advice would be most welcome.

[ITAF_Airone1989]

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Anyway:

-Airplane has only a flight-control trimmer on the pitch.

[cardboard_killer]

This topic heading is misleading.

2 hours ago, redboot said:

Is it possible the Yak 1 just didn’t have trim controls?

All the Yaks have elevator trim tabs only. Normally the RightControl+Up/Down button combination is the default key combo.

[redboot]

So, at the risk of asking a silly question, is there any way to obtain level flight without pressure on the stick?  (I'm used to flying jets in DCS where fly-by-wire and perfect trim is the norm.)  ?

[[CPT]Crunch]

Combination of trim, get it close as possible, than use power setting.  If you need to get a beverage and step away for a minute or two, use the autopilot level flight command.?

[DakkaDakkaDakka]

13 hours ago, redboot said:

I'm brand new to IL-2 (though not to flight sims).   In setting my controls for my first plane (the Yak 1 ser. 69), I can't get the trim to work.  I'm mapping it to my joystick top hat as per usual.  The control hardware clearly works, as it was originally mapped to pilot head motion and was fine.  Is it possible the Yak 1 just didn’t have trim controls?  That would surprise me, but I can't otherwise figure out why the control is unresponsive.  Any advice would be most welcome.

 

Be advised that, for whatever reason, some planes only seem to respond to specific key mappings, and not others. I would go through and map everything that "seems" like pitch trim (i.e. elevator trim up/down, ALSO elevator trim axis, ALSO stabilizer trim up/down, and ALSO stabilizer trim axis) to your preferred trim input, and then try again. It's likely you just haven't yet mapped the "correct" control, and the labels on the key mappings + various programming assumptions made years ago mean sometimes it's just not super intuitive until you map ALL the various potential controls.

 

I hope that helps.